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Martin Rundkvist's blog. Archaeology, skepticism, Sweden. And books and music and stuff.
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.
September 29, 2010
Category: Archaeology
What's new with this multi-burial is that the excavator has had bones from all three buried people radiocarbon-dated, and they turned out to have died at different dates over a span of about a century.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 37 Comments •
September 28, 2010
Category: Books
I've felt largely like an outsider since I was a kid, but these days I rarely experience the full force of it except when I visit a news agent's and confront the glossy magazines. They carry hundreds of titles....
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 40 Comments •
September 27, 2010
Category: Having Fun
Watched most of the 1984 animated Miyazaki feature film Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind on DVD. Like others of his I've seen before, it's visually stunning and has a pretty pointless story. Sat outdoors and read, probably...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 14 Comments •
September 25, 2010
Category: Having Fun
September unexpectedly turned warm and sunny. I'm a little under the weather and so can't do anything very energetic. But reading a review copy of a new geology book for the blog in my yard, in the sun, with...
Posted by Martin R at 7:45 AM • 17 Comments •
September 23, 2010
Category: Art
Anyone with some knowledge about the issues at hand will recognise the whole thing from senator Jesse Helms's attacks 20 years ago against Robert Mapplethorpe, Andres Serrano and other Entartete artists. It's a breathtakingly naïve move.
Posted by Martin R at 11:59 AM • 34 Comments •
September 20, 2010
Category: Politics
The only real reasons for me to rejoice somewhat after this election is that my housing estate's participation was significantly less crap than usual and that the anti-immigration party remains unrepresented in our municipal hall.
Posted by Martin R at 2:54 PM • 27 Comments •
September 19, 2010
Category: Archaeology
The object's shape and dimensions are exactly what you'd expect from a Viking Period gaming piece. But it's the wrong material. Those are almost exclusively made of bone, antler or horse teeth.
Posted by Martin R at 3:54 PM • 26 Comments •
September 16, 2010
Category: Travel
I'll be travelling a lot in October and November and giving some talks. Aard readers in the afflicted cities, drop me a line and maybe we can meet up!16-18 Oct, TAM London. 29-31 Oct, Oslo, Kritisk Masse: speaking about Thor...
Posted by Martin R at 4:35 PM • 10 Comments •
Category: Biology
The Swedish Research Council's expert panel has found professor Suchitra Holgersson guilty of severe science fraud.
Posted by Martin R at 12:50 PM • 12 Comments •
Category: Blogging
The Four Stone Hearth blog carnival lives on without a hitch thanks to Afarensis, its new editor! The one hundred and first instalment is on-line at Sapien Games. Catch the best recent blogging on archaeology and anthropology! Let me remind...
Posted by Martin R at 3:39 AM • 2 Comments •
September 15, 2010
Category: Bronze Age
I'm giving a talk at the Stockholm County Museum in Sickla, Saturday at two o'clock, as part of a day seminar. The subject will be my on-going research into Bronze Age sacrificial sites, where I collaborate with the museum on...
Posted by Martin R at 9:16 AM • 2 Comments •
September 13, 2010
Category: Books
J.R.R. Tolkien wrote his three main books in the order their contents happen in his fantasy world. But they weren't published in that order. Young Tolkien writes the various component works of The Silmarillion, middle-aged Tolkien writes and publishes The...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 29 Comments •
Category: History
Did you know that Mark, the oldest of the Gospels, was written just about the time of Paul's execution in AD 64/65?
Posted by Martin R at 6:18 AM • 37 Comments •
September 11, 2010
Category: Music
A vintage 80s synthesizer hooked up to a recently released EEG game controller, which allows the combo's creator to change the pitch of the synth's output with his thoughts.
Posted by Martin R at 3:41 AM • 4 Comments •
September 9, 2010
Category: History
One thing that really gets me about these people is how briefly they lived, how little education they had and how young they were when they did the deeds that wrote them into history.
Posted by Martin R at 1:46 PM • 18 Comments •
September 8, 2010
Category: Biology
I can report that the hills between Lakes Lundsjön and Trekanten are rich in boletes right now.
Posted by Martin R at 2:25 PM • 7 Comments •
September 7, 2010
Category: Archaeology
While geologist Mörner and his collaborator homeopath Bob G. Lind are Swedish archaeology's most notorious cranks, Duczko is not. He is a respected senior archaeologist.
Posted by Martin R at 4:02 PM • 17 Comments •
September 5, 2010
Category: Having Fun
Had breakfast guests: a beautifully pregnant old friend and our old boss/buddy came at ten and I cooked us all a full English. Everybody who's into the Gustavian / Georgian era and reads Scandy, read Kristina Ekero Eriksson's new...
Posted by Martin R at 3:55 PM • 11 Comments •
September 3, 2010
Category: Skepticism
Reverend Gerle's argument is that if I dislike woolen hats in general, then this means that I am specifically and discriminatingly hostile to green woolen hats.
Posted by Martin R at 1:33 PM • 13 Comments •
Category: Archaeology
Old Uppsala. Archaeology and early historical sources unanimously point this village out as one of the Lake Mälaren region's most important power centres.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 7 Comments •
September 2, 2010
Category: Archaeology
Archaeological chronology aims to answer the question "When did this or that event happen?". This question can usually be re-phrased as "When was this or that thing made?".
Posted by Martin R at 8:00 AM • 12 Comments •
September 1, 2010
Category: Archaeology
The 100th instalment of the Four Stone Hearth anthro/archaeo carnival! Will this be the last of them?
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 17 Comments •
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