Responses to My Chocolate Archaeology Piece
Category: Archaeology
My debate piece in Antiquity has proved popular and controversial. Here I reply to the most interesting comments.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 8 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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August 30, 2010
Dinosaur Fountain Sculptures
Category: Biology
To either side of the main sculpture are smaller lizard-like beasts, clearly modelled after late-19th century palaeontology's ideas about dinosaurs.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 11 Comments •
August 29, 2010
Sex Advice From An Amateur
Category: Health
The other day I happened upon a sex-related search term about someone with a problem looking for help. And feeling that I should offer what assistance I can, I'll give some free amateur's sex advice.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 11 Comments •
August 28, 2010
Archaeology is Chocolate, not Potatoes
Category: Archaeology
Antiquity is my discipline's equivalent of Nature. So, getting to inaugurate a new recurring heading there is something I'm very proud of.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 35 Comments •
August 27, 2010
Sailing Camp
Category: Children
I've spent three days with my son's class at Ängsholmen summer camp where the 12-y-os got a chance to reaquaint themselves after the summer and do some fun stuff together. My job, like that of the other three parents who...
Posted by Martin R at 1:08 PM • 8 Comments •
Four Stone Hearth: Call for Submissions
Category: Blogging
The 100th Four Stone Hearth blog carnival will run here at Aard on Wednesday. Submit great recent stuff to me, your own or somebody else's. Anything anthro or archaeo goes!...
Posted by Martin R at 10:22 AM • 0 Comments •
August 25, 2010
Early Mesolithic Blubber Concrete
Category: Archaeology
Does anyone remember the burnt bubbly lumps found under the hut floor at the 85 m a.s.l. site in Tyresta? There are remains of ancient marine fat in the lumps!
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 5 Comments •
August 24, 2010
School Girls Fined for Placing Teacher Break Room Under Electronic Surveillance
Category: Children
Reports Swedish Broadcasting, Dagens Eko:When two school girls in the 13-16 years age bracket found a lost key ring for their school's teacher break room, they had an idea. They bought simple audio surveillance equipment in a tech store, waited...
Posted by Martin R at 3:27 AM • 12 Comments •
August 22, 2010
Weekend Fun
Category: Having Fun
Sunset seen to the NW from the birthday party Made huntun (wonton) with my wife & kids, "good to eat and fun to make", as the song about cookies that Junior likes goes. Watched The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus...
Posted by Martin R at 4:53 PM • 36 Comments •
August 21, 2010
Simon's Mix CD
Category: Music
I put together a mix CD today for Simon who's celebrating his 60th birthday. He's the husband of a colleague of mine, and all I really know about him is that he's English, he's a semi-pro musician and he...
Posted by Martin R at 1:00 PM • 9 Comments •
August 19, 2010
Anthro Blog Carnival
Category: Blogging
The ninety-ninth Four Stone Hearth blog carnival is on-line at A Very Remote Period Indeed. Catch the best recent blogging on archaeology and anthropology!...
Posted by Martin R at 3:51 PM • 0 Comments •
A Hungry Grave
Category: Books
For everybody who's in a Lovecraftian mood after that podcast, here's a ghoulish news item. Reports Emma Persson Hennig in Sydsvenskan, and I translate:Staffanstorp municipality. A woman placing flowers on a grave at Brågarp churchyard suddenly sunk into it when...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 6 Comments •
Belfast Dendro Data Synchronised and Freely Available
Category: Archaeology
P.O. & L-Å. Larsson have synchronised and analysed large chunks of the Belfast dendrochronological data and published them on their web site.
Posted by Martin R at 5:51 AM • 1 Comments •
August 16, 2010
Drabblecast Offers Lovecraft's "Outsider"
Category: Books
When was the last time you read H.P. Lovecraft's 1921 story "The Outsider"? Have you ever? Let me tell you, it's a rare dark pleasure. Written when Lovecraft was 31, the story is one of the high points of his...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 6 Comments •
Four Stone Hearth: Call for Submissions
Category: Blogging
The 99th Four Stone Hearth blog carnival will run at A Very Remote Period Indeed on Wednesday. Submit great recent stuff to Julien, your own or somebody else's. Anything anthro or archaeo goes! The next open hosting slot is on...
Posted by Martin R at 8:10 AM • 0 Comments •
August 14, 2010
Junior Live-Streams His Video Gaming Sessions
Category: Children
It's like a crowd of kids in front of a gaming console and a TV set, lounging in the living room and watching one kid play a game -- only they're all on different continents.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 3 Comments •
August 13, 2010
Old Armenian Shoe Raises Hope for Archaeology in PLoS ONE
Category: Archaeology
You get 121 hits when you search the journal PLoS ONE for archaeology. This means that PLoS One might be a potential publication venue for research in my discipline.
Posted by Martin R at 9:38 AM • 4 Comments •
August 11, 2010
Another Good Science Blogging Community: Field of Science
Category: Blogging
There's ScienceBlogs and recently we got Scientopia. And now I discover Field of Science, another good science blogging community, which has apparently been up for a year and a half though I've managed to miss it. Check it out!...
Posted by Martin R at 10:49 AM • 0 Comments •
Drugs and Me
Category: Introspection
In close to five years of blogging, I've never talked specifically about my drug abstinence, though I've mentioned a few times that I'm tee-total. So I thought now I might say a few words on the subject.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 54 Comments •
August 10, 2010
Amateur Impact Hypothesis Makes It Into Major Archaeology Journal
Category: Skepticism
Antiquity's peer review has failed in this case. Before geologists reach a consensus that the Chiemgau craters exist (as seems unlikely right now), archaeologists and historians cannot use them to explain anything.
Posted by Martin R at 8:27 AM • 25 Comments •
August 9, 2010
Gordon Ramsay's Predecessor Sacks Jerusalem
Category: History
And here's star philologist and religion scholar Ola Wikander with a guest lesson in Akkadian.The word of the day is nuḫatimmu. It means "a cook" in Akkadian (or sometimes "a baker"). Maybe something to interest Gordon Ramsay? And wouldn't...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 4 Comments •
August 8, 2010
Mitchell & Webb Fake the Moon Landing
Category: Humour
Would it have been cost-effective to fake the Moon landing?
Posted by Martin R at 2:52 AM • 3 Comments •
August 5, 2010
Anders Larsson's Strange Vision
Category: Art
I met this nice guy at the gaming convention this last weekend. Anders Larsson is a talented artist and graphic designer who works in paint and pixels. Check out his site!...
Posted by Martin R at 2:17 PM • 3 Comments •
August 4, 2010
Anthro Blog Carnival
Category: Blogging
The ninety-eighth Four Stone Hearth blog carnival is on-line at The Prancing Papio. Catch the best recent blogging on archaeology and anthropology! The next vacant hosting slot is on 15 September. All bloggers with an interest in the subject are...
Posted by Martin R at 3:29 PM • 0 Comments •
Fornvännen's Winter Issue On-Line
Category: Archaeology
Fornvännen's winter issue (2009:4) is now on-line and available to anyone who wants to read it. Check it out!
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 3 Comments •
August 3, 2010
Riff-raff at the School for Vampires
Category: Film
I've found out about the spooky cartoon show my daughter watches that I wondered about, the one where one character looks just like Riff-raff in the Rocky Horror Picture Show. It's Die Schule der kleinen Vampire / School for Vampires,...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 3 Comments •
August 2, 2010
Check Out Scientopia for Old and New Favourite Blogs
Category: Blogging
There's a new science blogging network, Scientopia, it's full of ex-SciBlings and other good bloggers, and it has no ads! Janet Stemwedel of Adventures in Ethics and Science is there, as is Grrlscientist, Krys also of Anthro in Practice, the...
Posted by Martin R at 2:10 PM • 1 Comments •
An Apparatus With Which We Think We Think
Category: Skepticism
Hans Alfredson was translating something that Ambrose Bierce said in his Devil's Dictionary (1911): "Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think."
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 11 Comments •
August 1, 2010
Four Stone Hearth: Call for Submissions
Category: Blogging
The 98th Four Stone Hearth blog carnival will run at The Prancing Papio on Wednesday. Submit great recent stuff to Ray, your own or somebody else's. Anything anthro or archaeo goes! The next open hosting slot is on 15 September....
Posted by Martin R at 12:57 PM • 0 Comments •
