Dr. Martin Rundkvist is a Swedish archaeologist, journal editor, public speaker, chairman of the Swedish Skeptics Society, atheist, lefty liberal, bookworm, and father of two.
True to the rules of Open Access publishing, the April issue of Fornvännen has come on-line in all its full-text glory less than six months after paper publication.
- Katharina Hammarstrand Dehman reports on the kind of hardcore wetland archaeology you can get to do when somebody wants to dig a huge tunnel under a coastal city.
- Helena Günther launches a merciless attack on the shamanic model of interpretation that has coloured much Scandy rock-art research in recent years.
- Maria Lingström reports on her fieldwork on a 1361 battlefield. Unusually early battlefield archaeology on a site where hundreds fell casualty to crossbow fire and close combat but few guns were used!
- Ulf Näsman counters the Kuhnian Huns argument.
- Göran Werthwein reports about a Medieval smithy at a rural manor where goldsmith work took place.
- Magnus Green analyses a fragment of Spanish Medieval church art that has recently ended up in a Swedish church.
Humanities & Social Science
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And if Swedish isn't your thing, try: http://translate.google.com Google, of course, has Babel Fish on this one. I'm still looking for a crackberry app but hey, so far this hasn't been bad.
Posted by: Luanne E | October 22, 2009 3:33 PM