Halland Archaeology Journal
Category: Archaeology
Another fine read about a Swedish province with fine archaeology.
Posted by Martin R at 8:31 AM • 4 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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October 29, 2011
October 28, 2011
Roman Mask Find Causes Legal Conundrum
Category: Archaeology
I hope there's a way to take the mask into public ownership without giving the man either reward or punishment.
Posted by Martin R at 7:55 AM • 8 Comments •
October 26, 2011
Tricking the Devil In 17th Century Norway
Category: Norway
The vicar Søren Sode had the Black Book, and with its aid he could both bind and unbind the Devil.
Posted by Martin R at 1:59 PM • 7 Comments •
October 25, 2011
Investing Your Twenties
Category: Introspection
A pop musician's and a mathematician's twenties are a precious part of their life. During those ten years of early adulthood, there seems to be a residual childlike creativity or randomness in the brain at a time when a person...
Posted by Martin R at 4:20 PM • 20 Comments •
October 24, 2011
Colours Turning on Boat Hill
Category: Homeownership
Here's what's currently outside my kitchen window. Rosehip in the foreground, rowan berries in the middle, and cloned white brick houses like my own in the background....
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 2 Comments •
October 22, 2011
Sheep In Cabbage
Category: Food
I am making fårikål, a dish whose name has a kind of brutal literality, meaning "sheep in cabbage". It doesn't ring quite so harshly in Swedish, as we have no separate word for mutton, using the same word for...
Posted by Martin R at 10:51 AM • 19 Comments •
October 19, 2011
Jane Austen LARP
Category: Books
I grew sideburns, brushed up on some country dances, learned to play whist, borrowed a Regency outfit and selected some Wordsworth and Coleridge poetry to perform.
Posted by Martin R at 4:01 PM • 18 Comments •
October 15, 2011
My Gothenburg Talk About Mead-Halls
Category: Archaeology
Here's my talk about Mead-halls book, from the Gothenburg Book Fair, 23 September.
Posted by Martin R at 1:00 AM • 4 Comments •
October 14, 2011
Swedish University Invites Imaginary Bosnian Pyramid Crank
Category: Archaeology
Cornelius Holtorf has now done something completely in line with his convictions, that is, something I consider extremely irresponsible and which causes me to palm my face and groan.
Posted by Martin R at 1:00 AM • 36 Comments •
October 13, 2011
I Don't Give A Damn About My Apple Products
Category: Tech
"Aha", I hear you say, "this is one of those 'PC is better than Mac' screeds". Not so.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 12 Comments •
October 12, 2011
Speaking Schedule Oct/Nov
Category: Archaeology
Wednesday 5 Oct. 17:00. About Fisksätra before the 1970s housing development. Fisksätra shopping centre, HAMN project office. Thursday 13 Oct. 10:00. About Bronze Age sacrificial sites. Uppsala, Engelska parken, Thunbergsvägen 3, Dept of Archaeology. Monday 17 Oct. 18:30. About pseudoarchaeology....
Posted by Martin R at 6:03 AM • 0 Comments •
October 10, 2011
Boardgaming Retreat
Category: Gaming
My buddy Oscar doesn't like roughing it at gaming conventions, sleeping on classroom floors, eating cup noodles etc. So for two years now he's organised civilised boardgaming weekends where he's gotten a bunch of gamers together and booked a...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 7 Comments •
October 8, 2011
October 7, 2011
Miskatonic School for Girls
Category: Gaming
So yeah, Kickstarter now offers you the opportunity to back a card game set in a Lovecraftian girl school. Via Kenneth Hite....
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 1 Comments •
October 6, 2011
Tonight A Demon Came Into My Head
Category: Music
Blues & metal fans, take note. The album you need to get right now is Hisingen Blues by Swedish sensations Graveyard. And check out the Aardvarchaeology Merchandise Store!...
Posted by Martin R at 3:14 AM • 3 Comments •
October 2, 2011
Singer And Jowly Do Drugs On The Commuter Train
Category: Health
Singer got out a pharmacy-style box of pill blisters from which he extracted two yellow/green capsules. "This is like cocaine, I promise! Strong shit! Have some!"
Posted by Martin R at 4:37 PM • 12 Comments •
