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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, skeptic, atheist, lefty liberal, bookworm, and father of two.
Category: Blogging
The seventieth Four Stone Hearth blog carnival is on-line at Afarensis. Catch the best recent blogging on archaeology and anthropology! Submissions for the next carnival will be sent to me. The next open hosting slot is on 12 August. All...
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Category: Archaeology
Current Archaeology's July issue offers a lot of good reading, of which I particularly like the stories on human origins (see below) and garden archaeology at Kenilworth Castle.
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Category: Archaeology
The 71th Four Stone Hearth blog carnival will run at Afarensis on Wednesday. Submit your best recent stuff to the bloggin' australopithecine. Anything anthro or archaeo goes!...
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Category: Archaeology
Dating from the 11th century and consisting mainly of about 1000 German and English coins, it also has some Islamic ones, one from Sigtuna and even one from India, a very rare occurrence.
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Category: Archaeology
The conflict that drives the first two thirds of the long poem is centred upon certain problems King Hrothgar of the Danes has with his mead-hall "The Hart".
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Category: Archaeology
Dendrochronology has a serious organisational problem that impedes its development as a scientific discipline and tends to compromise its results. This is the problem of proprietary data.
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Category: Archaeology
It appears to be a forged gold coin, consisting of a soft grey metal (tin?) with a thin coating of a yellow metal.
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Category: Archaeology
The sixty-ninth Four Stone Hearth blog carnival is on-line at Wanna Be An Anthropologist. Catch the best recent blogging on archaeology and anthropology! Submissions for the next carnival will be sent to me. The next open hosting slot is on...
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Category: Archaeology
Fornvännen appears on-line for free with a six-month delay (due to concerns that the on-line version might otherwise undermine the print version).
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Category: Archaeology
The 70th Four Stone Hearth blog carnival will run at Wanna Be An Anthropologist on Wednesday. Submit your best recent stuff to Paul. Anything anthro or archaeo goes!...
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Category: Archaeology
I received pictures and x-rays of the purported weapons. I am quite sure that they are a) not weapons, and b) not from the Viking Period.
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Category: Archaeology
Cultures that accumulate enough counteradaptive traits will either dwindle and disappear, or change dramatically. In either case, the original culture will no longer be extant.
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Category: Archaeology
We pursue lines of inquiry that we find fun or trendy or likely to get funded because someone with money deludes themself into seeing them as important.
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Category: Archaeology
The sixty-eighth Four Stone Hearth blog carnival is on-line at Remote Central. Catch the best recent blogging on archaeology and anthropology! Submissions for the next carnival will be sent to me. The next open hosting slot is on 29 July....
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Category: Archaeology
The 68th Four Stone Hearth blog carnival will run at Remote Central on Wednesday. Submit your best recent stuff to Tim before Tuesday evening. Anything anthro or archaeo goes!...
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Category: Archaeology
A friendly Englishman asked me how a law-abiding metal detectorist should go about getting a permit to pursue their hobby in this country.
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Category: Archaeology
If you want to evict people forcefully to get at an archaeological site, you're doing it all wrong and for the wrong reasons.
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Category: Archaeology
The sixty-seventh 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 me. The next open hosting slot is on 15...
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Category: Archaeology
All the warnings are due to inadequate quantity and quality of teaching staff per student.
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Category: Archaeology
The 67th Four Stone Hearth blog carnival will run at Sorting Out Science on Wednesday. Get your submissions to Sam before Tuesday evening. Anything anthro or archaeo goes! And hey, hey, hey -- have you considered wearing a bone through...
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Category: Archaeology
"Err, actually, the 1st Millennium is Prehistory. In Scandinavia, that is. We don't have any written sources."
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Category: Archaeology
Anglophones find it really funny that one of Sweden's oldest towns is named Sick Tuna.
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Category: Archaeology
The readers of popular archaeology magazines have a much more international and escapist view of the subject than most professionals.
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Category: Archaeology
Check it out if you're into the Late Mesolithic!
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Category: Archaeology
It's been more than two years since the last time I hosted the Four Stone Hearth blog carnival. Now it's my turn again with number 66!Our first submission is a piece from Anne of the Spittoon blog about a...
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Category: Archaeology
I'm particularly interested in the pre-battle finds that are starting to accumulate.
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Category: Archaeology
You can book guides with which you participate in flint knapping, leather working, cooking, archery, trapping and so on.
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Category: Archaeology
Maja Bäckvall and Jannie Teinler are visiting rune stones and posing for photographs along with them. So far they've done 121 rune stones!
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Category: Archaeology
Much of the issue is about the differentiation of Roman "villa" sites into functional categories such as shrines, tax-collecting depots and rural manors.
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Category: Archaeology
The sixty-fifth Four Stone Hearth blog carnival is on-line at A Primate of Modern Aspect. Catch the best recent blogging on archaeology and anthropology! Submissions for the next carnival will be sent to me. The next open hosting slot is...
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Category: Archaeology
The forenoon saw me in the stores of the Museum of National Antiquities looking through Otto Frödin's uncatalogued finds from the "Sverkersgården" site.
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Category: Archaeology
"The programs appear to be put together according to whatever specialists each department has on its staff."
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Category: Archaeology
On the big rune stone, dating from about AD 1000, Torgärd's poetic commemoration of her maternal uncles can be read.
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Category: Archaeology
Contacts don't just pop into being, they're made, unless you're lucky enough to be in a position to inherit them.
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Category: Archaeology
The sixty-fourth Four Stone Hearth blog carnival is on-line at Quiche Moraine. Catch the best recent blogging on archaeology and anthropology! Submissions for the next carnival will be sent to me. The next open hosting slot is on 6 May....
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Category: Archaeology
If you do get a job against all odds, then that will be through contacts, and the job will be poorly paid and last only a few months in the summer.
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Category: Archaeology
Finds and radiocarbon dates allow us to identify five phases on-site, two of them corresponding to the dates of the metal detector finds that occasioned the excavations.
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Category: Archaeology
These excavations are illegal. I don't think they should be, but they are.
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Category: Archaeology
The integrity of the museum-supplied data still stands, but now us users can help accrete more info around each find and site.
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Category: Archaeology
The sixty-third Four Stone Hearth blog carnival is on-line at Millard Fillmore's Bathtub. Catch the best recent blogging on archaeology and anthropology! Submissions for the next carnival will be sent to me. The next open hosting slot is on 6...
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Category: Archaeology
Denmark has an excellent system in place to enable and govern a responsible and constructive metal detector hobby.
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Category: Archaeology
The people on this site avoided burying stuff that keeps, not just during one era, but over repeated use phases covering thousands of years. Drat.
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Category: Archaeology
The Swedish Heritage Board has begun putting historical photographs whose copyright has expired onto Flickr Commons.
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Category: Archaeology
Every issue of Fornvännen will henceforth appear on-line half a year after it was distributed on paper.
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Category: Archaeology
The sixty-second Four Stone Hearth blog carnival is on-line at the The Swedish Osteological Society's Blog. Catch the best recent blogging on archaeology and anthropology from a bony point of view! Submissions for the next carnival will be sent to...
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Category: Archaeology
I don't think curating, photographing and cataloguing things like this is a good use of public funding.
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Category: Archaeology
Current Archaeology, "the UK's best selling archaeology magazine", has kindly given me a complimentary subscription. I recently received my first issue, #228 (March '09), and I found it an enjoyable read. Best of all, I liked James Barrett's and Adam...
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Category: Archaeology
You almost only find the feet and legs of the pots, hardly ever the wall or rim. Why is that?
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Category: Archaeology
I used to do all my plans and maps in a hard-core CAD program using a digitising tablet, but then WinXP came along.
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Category: Archaeology
The sixty-first Four Stone Hearth blog carnival is on-line at the Moore Group Blog. Catch the best recent blogging on archaeology and anthropology! Submissions for the next carnival will be sent to me. The next open hosting slot is on...
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