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.
Aard enjoys complimentary subscriptions to a number of popular archaeology magazines from which I learn a lot before passing them on to the Fisksätra public library. Here are my favourite stories from three recent issues that have crossed my current-reading shelf.
Current Archaeology 234, Sept.
- Figures cut into chalk hillsides in Britain, such as the Uffington horse (6 pp.).
Current Archaeology 236, Nov.
- A huge 7th century gold and silver hoard found recently in Staffordshire. Excellent pix! I haven't blogged about this since it's been all over the mainstream news and I had little to add. (10 pp.)
- A London tide mill, sturdily built in the 1190s and well preserved in the river sediments, its great wheel partly still in place (6 pp.).
Archaeology Nov/Dec.
- A Bronze Age temple under the Citadel of Aleppo in Syria (6 pp.).
- A 5th century burial with full scale armour for man and horse in South Korea (4 pp.).
- Archaeologists studying the camps of today's homeless Americans (2 pp.).
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Comments
One that I've started reading is American Archeology. There are only excerpts of the contents online, though.
Posted by: OriGuy | November 13, 2009 12:14 AM
Hm, the Current Archaeology links are 404 broken.
Posted by: kai | November 13, 2009 3:28 AM
Their site has crapped out. The links on the start page to individual stories don't work. Hope they get their faeces together soon.
Posted by: Martin R | November 13, 2009 3:38 AM
I'd like to recommend Biblical Archaeology Review for archaeology of the ancient Near East - as I would even if I didn't work there :-).
There's also quite a bit of info on our website.
BiblicalArchaeology.org
Posted by: Jonathan Laden | November 13, 2009 4:12 PM