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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.
July 31, 2011
Category: Blogging
Here's the first t-shirt design suggestion, from Jim Allen/Sweeney! Says Jim, "The image could be printed in black or white on a contrasting shirt, or even in three colours - say, white for the eyes and trowel, tan for...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 1 Comments •
July 30, 2011
Category: Archaeology
The students have been lured onto a pointless dig devised by a crank that not one Scanian archaeologist is willing to collaborate with.
Posted by Martin R at 3:38 PM • 22 Comments •
July 25, 2011
Category: Blogging
A company has offered to sponsor Aard with 15-30 free printed t-shirts bearing the design of my choice, delivered to a US address. I'd like to accept their offer, and so I need help from my readers. 1. I need...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 20 Comments •
July 23, 2011
Category: Norway
The killer targeted the Norwegian Labour party and is an Islamophobic opponent of a multi-cultural society. I am a Labour voter and a member of a multi-cultural family.
Posted by Martin R at 9:14 AM • 79 Comments •
July 21, 2011
Category: Books
Of late I have spent some time in the nightmare world of P.G. Wodehouse, reading his 1946 novel Joy in the Morning.* Written though it was after WW2, it is set in a timeless travesty of pre-WW1 England. Much...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 19 Comments •
July 20, 2011
Category: Archaeology
It really isn't good enough for archaeology to continue sitting around waiting for the public to locate Bronze Age sacrificial sites, then look at each one in isolation as an interesting anecdote.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 4 Comments •
July 19, 2011
Category: Food
Is this what you see when you take it off?
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 5 Comments •
July 18, 2011
Category: Archaeology
To my mind, Almkvist's pyramidological studies are a classic case of geometrical pareidolia, apophenia or patternicity.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 16 Comments •
July 17, 2011
Category: Books
"He could see the nanosites in his skin. But for all he knew, he might have a million more living in his brain now, piggybacking on axons and dendrites, sending data to one another in flashes of light. A second brain intermingled with his own."
Posted by Martin R at 7:41 AM • 6 Comments •
July 12, 2011
Category: Archaeology
Did you know that a huge majority of the runic inscriptions date from after the Christianisation of Scandinavia?
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 10 Comments •
July 11, 2011
Category: Archaeology
A lake basin is usually deepest at the centre. And my pit was almost as near the centre of this basin as I could get without diving into the lake.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 14 Comments •
July 9, 2011
Category: China
My wife's from Zhejiang province, and so is this can of pickled cabbage that she bought yesterday. I like the label a lot. It's not quite Engrish: of course, we would say "people's mess hall", but the Chinese characters...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 14 Comments •
July 6, 2011
Category: Archaeology
According to Ivar Hall, 80 years old, his grandfather told him that trolls used to scrub and delouse themselves against the boulder.
Posted by Martin R at 10:20 AM • 11 Comments •
July 5, 2011
Category: Blogging
Scientific American has opened a blog portal, poaching a number of excellent erstwhile SciBlings and other blog buddies of mine! Head on over and greetBora Zivkovic at A Blog Around The Clock Krystal d'Costa at Anthropology in Practice Jennifer...
Posted by Martin R at 2:57 PM • 6 Comments •
July 1, 2011
Category: Archaeology
The most energetic of the people involved in the search is one Kathleen Martinez, a non-archaeologist from the Dominican Republic, who comes across as quite obsessive.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 11 Comments •
