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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.
Category: Archaeology
The skulls have been treated in a complex ceremony that involved the display of skulls on stakes and the deposition of skulls in water.
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Category: Archaeology
One article is actually a long piece of special pleading to explain why the excavator did not find the desired remains on a site!
Posted by Martin R at 1:57 PM • 5 Comments •
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 •
Category: Archaeology
Measuring twelve by two centimetres, its size is perhaps not very impressive, and there are many non-dildoish uses for which it may have been intended. But without doubt anyone alive at the time of its making would have seen the penile similarities.
Posted by Martin R at 2:32 PM • 43 Comments •
Category: Archaeology
These people really knew how to work quartz, bringing chunks of it on their sealing expeditions to the remote group of tiny islands that is now the heights of Tyresta.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 6 Comments •
Category: Biology
Anoxic metazoans: that means multicellular beings like you, Dear Reader, who live without oxygen.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 2 Comments •
Category: Archaeology
"Isn't it just too awesome to catch a glimpse of an Early Mesolithic summer -- the glinting of the blue-green forewing that's been resting in the sediment for 10 000 years. Those bugs buzzed for a summer and the sun glinted then too in their chitinous armour."
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 9 Comments •
Category: Archaeology
Check it out if you're into the Late Mesolithic!
Posted by Martin R at 8:22 AM • 4 Comments •
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
Amazing to find all this insanely old material in a tract of completely nondescript woodland.
Posted by Martin R at 4:12 PM • 10 Comments •
Category: Archaeology
"I dug as if in a trance, and suddenly something glinted -- unbelievably: quartz, super quality quartz!"
Posted by Martin R at 8:50 AM • 6 Comments •
Category: Archaeology
Ancient lithics scatters were everywhere, peeping out of the scorched earth.
Posted by Martin R at 8:50 AM • 11 Comments •
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