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Dr. Martin Rundkvist is a Swedish archaeologist, journal editor, public speaker, skeptic, atheist, lefty liberal, bookworm, and father of two.
Category: Archaeology
So you're a metal detectorist and you find a silver figurine at storied Lejre in Denmark. It depicts a person sitting in a high seat whose posts end in two wolves' heads. And on either arm rest sits a...
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Category: Archaeology
Lise Harvig knows where every piece of bone and bronze is in the burial urns before she even cuts open the plaster they've been encased in since being lifted out of the ground.
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Category: Archaeology
For almost 150 years, we have tried to make sense of Iron Age armies from their gear. Never have we really dreamed of finding the dead guys themselves!
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Category: Archaeology
Metal detectorists on Bornholm have rediscovered one of the earliest-documented find spots of guldgubbar, tiny embossed gold foils.
Posted by Martin R at 8:47 AM • 3 Comments •
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
An Aesir god and a giantess, mythical ancestors of the era's royal lines.
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Category: Archaeology
While ERIH recognises three impact grades, the NDS has only two grades.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 6 Comments •
Category: Archaeology
Grade A means global readership. Grade B means international readership. Grade C means national readership.
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Category: Archaeology
As I flipped the plug of soil over, I wasn't greeted by a dull crumpled-up piece of scrap...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 5 Comments •
Category: Archaeology
What were they supposed to do with a six-litre volume of crumbling amber?
Posted by Martin R at 8:50 AM • 11 Comments •
Category: Archaeology
I'm a big fan of Danish archaeology. In my opinion it is the best in Scandinavia, both regarding the sites they have and what they write about them. This love of Danish archaeology has been a strong incentive for...
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Category: Archaeology
The first 100 volumes of Fornvännen are now available freely on the web!
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Category: Archaeology
Victorious defenders dunked the equipment of foreign armies they had beaten into sacred lakes.
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Category: Archaeology
Digs like these make most sites that Swedish archaeologists spend their time on look like a complete waste of resources!
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Category: Archaeology
Whatever the result, it would have left the LAR editors looking bad.
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Category: Archaeology
"... one often finds in the earth artificially shaped stone objects that have clearly been wrought by human hands ..."
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Category: Archaeology
An old sorcerer has passed away.
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Category: Archaeology
What caught my attention in the new issue of LAR was three polemic pieces.
Posted by Martin R at 8:49 AM • 7 Comments •
Category: Archaeology
Even heavily codified religions, such as Judaism or Christianity, aren't coherent.
Posted by Martin R at 9:05 AM • 18 Comments •
Category: Archaeology
There is very little archaeology here.
Posted by Martin R at 9:05 AM • 18 Comments •
Category: Archaeology
"You cannot sleep when you are dealing with a monster site."
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Category: Archaeology
"What needs to be considered is the agency of the objects ..."
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Category: Archaeology
Brooches were what kept your clothes from falling off.
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Category: Sweden
Scandinavians are unusually cool about nudity in certain well-defined situations.
Posted by Martin R at 9:05 AM • 18 Comments •
Category: Archaeology
A new peer-reviewed intercontinental archaeology journal has just been announced.
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Category: Archaeology
These finds constitute solid precedent to settle the boobs vs buns debate.
Posted by Martin R at 5:33 AM • 9 Comments •
Category: Archaeology
Waiting in the Earth's embrace for the arrival of the archaeologist.
Posted by Martin R at 9:05 AM • 5 Comments •
Category: Archaeology
The chronology and iconography of Migration Period gold bracteates.
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Category: Art
Work by Sally Mann, Henrik Saxgren and Alphonse Mucha is on display in Stockholm, Sweden.
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Category: Archaeology
A recurring theme in my blogging of the past year (e.g. here: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4) has been that a degree in Scandinavian archaeology (BA, MA or PhD) is almost entirely useless from a career perspective. The...
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