Little Interpreters
Category: Children
When a family migrates, the members who pick up the local lingo first and best are generally the children, and they soon become little interpreters.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 10 Comments •
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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.
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May 29, 2010
Radioactive Basement
Category: Homeownership
Our crawl space is not a healthy place to be, at eight times the max radioactivity value. Radon collects down there and seeps up into the house. Luckily the problem is easily fixed.
Posted by Martin R at 5:19 AM • 15 Comments •
May 27, 2010
Major Museum Struts My Stuff
Category: Archaeology
Most archaeological finds are of course unexhibitable drab fragments, but we love them anyway for their scientific potential. Still, every now and then something pops up that you know is going to be able to speak directly to the public.
Posted by Martin R at 4:18 PM • 15 Comments •
Anthro Blog Carnival
Category: Blogging
The ninety-third Four Stone Hearth blog carnival is on-line at The Prancing Papio. Catch the best recent blogging on archaeology and anthropology! Submissions for the next carnival will be sent to Krys at Anthropology in Practice. All bloggers with an...
Posted by Martin R at 2:38 AM • 0 Comments •
May 25, 2010
Swedish Heritage in Your Smartphone
Category: Archaeology
The National Heritage Board of Sweden has released a beta version of a location-aware heritage-data browser for Android. The name is Kringla Mobil.
Posted by Martin R at 1:23 PM • 7 Comments •
May 24, 2010
Nine Sacrificial Sites
Category: Archaeology
I'm writing a paper for the conference volume of the Helsinki meeting I attended back in October. Here's an excerpt from the manuscript.
Posted by Martin R at 5:27 PM • 5 Comments •
May 23, 2010
Four Stone Hearth: Call for Submissions
Category: Blogging
The 93rd Four Stone Hearth blog carnival will run at The Prancing Papio on Wednesday. Submit great recent stuff to Raymond, your own or somebody else's. Anything anthro or archaeo goes! The next open hosting slot is on 23...
Posted by Martin R at 4:28 PM • 0 Comments •
Weekend Fun
Category: Having Fun
Chore in order to achieve future fun: my wife called in a stump grinder a few days ago and had the remains of a thuja in one of our planting beds disintegrated. I emptied the crater of wood chips (harrisian...
Posted by Martin R at 1:54 PM • 17 Comments •
May 20, 2010
Old Masters of Quartz
Category: Archaeology
These people really knew how to work quartz, bringing chunks of it on their sealing expeditions to the remote group of tiny islands that is now the heights of Tyresta.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 6 Comments •
Ask a ScienceBlogger (Out)
Category: Blogging
The Sb Overlordz have reinstated the Ask a ScienceBlogger feature. Now, Dear Reader, you already ask me a lot of questions in comments here on Aard. But to give your archaeology questions (and possible my replies) a bit more exposure,...
Posted by Martin R at 6:16 AM • 2 Comments •
May 19, 2010
In My Earbuds Lately
Category: Music
The increasing number of podcasts I subscribe to has tended to crowd music out a bit from my earbuds in recent months. But I do have some good albums to recommend. Here's what's on my smartphone right now.Fleet Foxes....
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 10 Comments •
May 18, 2010
Kjellén's Blanket: Methods of a Rock-Art Master Surveyor
Category: Archaeology
"Of course, some thought he was a little crazy, crawling around like that with a blanket over his head."
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 6 Comments •
May 17, 2010
Recent Archaeomags
Category: Archaeology
Aard, with its 1000 daily readers and its lead time of a few days, may be a pretty good venue to publish these things in if you know you're not going to get paid anyway.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 4 Comments •
May 15, 2010
LinCon 2010 Gaming Convention
Category: Gaming
My two days with Junior at the LinCon gaming convention in Linköping turned out even better than I'd hoped for. I had lots of fun myself, and as a geek dad I was extra happy that Junior took to...
Posted by Martin R at 8:40 AM • 6 Comments •
Anthro Blog Carnival
Category: Blogging
The ninety-second Four Stone Hearth blog carnival is on-line at Sorting Out Science. Catch the best recent blogging on archaeology and anthropology! Submissions for the next carnival will be sent to Raymond at The Prancing Papio. All bloggers with an...
Posted by Martin R at 5:33 AM • 0 Comments •
May 14, 2010
Facebook Fail
Category: Tech
Facebook has turned up security a notch and effectively locked me out when I'm on the road. I have hundreds of Fb contacts that I don't actually know and wouldn't recognise if I met them in the street. Mention their...
Posted by Martin R at 3:03 AM • 10 Comments •
May 13, 2010
Contrary to Widespread Belief, There is a Spoon
Category: Archaeology
Yesterday I did another hour with my metal detector in the disused potato patch where I found a 17th century coin in September 2008. No luck really this time: the only coin I found dates from 1973 and the...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 6 Comments •
May 12, 2010
A Likeness of Mohammed
Category: NOIBN
In order not to get harassed by religious bigots, I'm not telling you which Mohammed I have made a likeness of.
Posted by Martin R at 10:26 AM • 25 Comments •
The Future is Written in Fat-Bellied Red Across Every Morning Sky
Category: Books
Escape Pod episode #235 has been sitting on my smartphone since January because of its beautiful writing and archaeological theme. Jay Lake's 2009 story "On the Human Plan" is told in a gentleman-rogue style reminiscent of Leiber and Vance, and...
Posted by Martin R at 9:45 AM • 0 Comments •
May 11, 2010
Schoolyard Sprouts Pagan Burial Monument
Category: Archaeology
Last year part of my daughter's schoolyard was landscaped and fitted with new entertainments. The landscapers also built a stone circle right next to her classroom.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 8 Comments •
May 10, 2010
The Wee Folk Under the Cairn
Category: Archaeology
Joakim Goldhahn is investigating a burial cairn sitting on top of a rock-art panel full of child-size footprints.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 33 Comments •
May 9, 2010
Gingerly Trying Out Twitter
Category: NOIBN
I've been staying away from Twitter for fear that it would eat my life. But I guess I have at least to try it. So, Dear Reader, feel free to follow my tweets! And tell me who I should follow....
Posted by Martin R at 5:03 PM • 12 Comments •
Four Stone Hearth: Call for Submissions
Category: Blogging
The 92nd Four Stone Hearth blog carnival will run at Sorting Out Science on Wednesday. Submit great recent stuff to Sam, your own or somebody else's. Anything anthro or archaeo goes! The next open hosting slot is already on 9...
Posted by Martin R at 1:10 PM • 0 Comments •
May 7, 2010
Clifford Simak and the Interstellar Matter Fax
Category: Books
A good way to travel between the stars would be if you had a matter scanner at one end, an instant information transmitter, and a matter assembler at the other end.
Posted by Martin R at 4:20 PM • 13 Comments •
Ford of the Hind
Category: Archaeology
When the Hyndevad dams were built, the river bed was temporarily laid dry. A major prehistoric sacrificial site was discovered.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 0 Comments •
May 5, 2010
Platoon
Category: Archaeology
The local cub scouts had asked me to accompany them on a forest walk to give them some culture and history.
Posted by Martin R at 4:55 PM • 7 Comments •
May 4, 2010
Fornvännen's Autumn Issue On-Line
Category: Archaeology
The full text of Fornvännen's October issue, 2009:3, has come on-line thanks to our excellent cyber cowgirl Gun Larsson.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 1 Comments •
May 3, 2010
Lejre Excavator Publishes His Views on the Figurine
Category: Archaeology
I am still convinced that the figurine is a female. Christensen gracefully points out that goddesses are sometimes allowed to use Odin's high seat. And that's the sort of scene the Lejre figurine depicts.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 11 Comments •
May 2, 2010
Riverside Walk
Category: Photography
A springtime walk along River Nyköpingsån from Täckhammar bridge to Lake Långhalsen. [More blog entries about beavers, photography, rivers; bävrar, foto, floder, Nyköping.]...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 2 Comments •
Nigerian Islamist Senator Outdoes Catholic Church on Child Rape Issue
Category: Children
"History tells us that Prophet Muhammad did marry a young girl as well. Therefore I have not contravened any law. Even if she is 13, as it is being falsely peddled around."
Posted by Martin R at 6:09 AM • 3 Comments •
May 1, 2010
Chariot of the Sun
Category: Archaeology
Bronze Age Scandinavians believed that the sun was pulled across the sky in a chariot by a horse. They built models depicting this out of cast bronze.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 7 Comments •
