Bronze Age Mortuary Cult In Viborg
Category: Archaeology
The theme of the conference is Bronze Age mortuary cult in the local cultural landscape.
Posted by Martin R at 12:16 PM • 6 Comments •
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Denmark:
The Dancing Beasts of Hvirring
Category: Archaeology
I've never seen a piece like this before: it must be a top mount for something - box, horse yoke, staff?
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 6 Comments •
Recent Archaeomags
Category: Archaeology
Here's a quick look at the most recent windfall of popular archaeomags that has reached my big black mailbox.
Posted by Martin R at 4:32 PM • 8 Comments •
Sacrificial Finds in the Late Bronze Age Local Landscape
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 •
Recent Archaeomags
Category: Archaeology
Roman sites in the UK and 19th century sites with imported Classical sculpture have local living micropopulations of Mediterranean land snails!
Posted by Martin R at 3:50 PM • 5 Comments •
UK, SE, DA Metal Detector Laws Compared
Category: Archaeology
The title says it all: The Regulation of Metal Detectors and Responsible Metal-Detecting: the Examples of the UK, Sweden and Denmark.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 5 Comments •
Pond of the Plywood Vikings
Category: Archaeology
When the gear arrived from the Tuborg brewery, it turned out that the latter-day Vikings of the Danish film industry weren't quite up to the standards of their ancestors.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 1 Comments •
Work or Play? An Unusual Stone Object
Category: Archaeology
The object's shape and dimensions are exactly what you'd expect from a Viking Period gaming piece. But it's the wrong material. Those are almost exclusively made of bone, antler or horse teeth.
Posted by Martin R at 3:54 PM • 26 Comments •
Two Queenly Careers
Category: History
One thing that really gets me about these people is how briefly they lived, how little education they had and how young they were when they did the deeds that wrote them into history.
Posted by Martin R at 1:46 PM • 18 Comments •
Three New Halls at Jelling
Category: Archaeology
Something really cool has once more been unearthed at Jelling: the foundations of three large buildings of the Trelleborg type, dating from the reign of Harold Bluetooth or his son, Sven Forkbeard.
Posted by Martin R at 4:08 PM • 7 Comments •
Lejre Excavator Publishes His Views on the Figurine
Category: Archaeology
I am still convinced that the figurine is a female. Christensen gracefully points out that goddesses are sometimes allowed to use Odin's high seat. And that's the sort of scene the Lejre figurine depicts.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 11 Comments •
Lukewarm Normative Scandy Atheism
Category: Skepticism
Because of blogging and my involvement in the skeptical pro-science movement, in recent years I have come into close contact with Americans as never before in my adult life. More than half of Aard's readers are in the US. It's...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 69 Comments •
Recent Archaeomags
Category: Archaeology
Denmark's archaeology is extremely rich and there's no reason to go on and on about early royal sites just because they were once royal.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 2 Comments •
Beautiful Vendel Period Jewellery
Category: Archaeology
I have mixed feelings about this paper now. From a scientific point of view, I'm very proud of it. But from a career-strategical point of view, however, I have to say that it was a failure.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 25 Comments •
Tripartite Names in Denmark and China
Category: Denmark
Danes often have tripartite names. I've been wondering how these names are inherited. Specifically, which names get dropped and which ones get passed on to the kids?
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 15 Comments •
The Lejre Freya Miniature
Category: Archaeology
What I said wasn't controversial. I just happened to be the first to say something that every specialist in the field of Late Iron Age gender studies realises immediately.
Posted by Martin R at 12:30 PM • 13 Comments •
Odin from Lejre? No, it's Freya!
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...
Posted by Martin R at 3:34 PM • 47 Comments •
Danes Run Entire Urn Burials Through CT Scanner
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.
Posted by Martin R at 12:03 PM • 8 Comments •
Hundreds of Iron Age War Dead Found
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!
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 14 Comments •
New/Old 6th Century Find on Bornholm
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 •
Danish Metal Detector Festival
Category: Archaeology
Denmark has an excellent system in place to enable and govern a responsible and constructive metal detector hobby.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 10 Comments •
New Foil Figure Die From Zealand
Category: Archaeology
An Aesir god and a giantess, mythical ancestors of the era's royal lines.
Posted by Martin R at 8:50 AM • 14 Comments •
Norwegians Grade Archaeology Journals
Category: Archaeology
While ERIH recognises three impact grades, the NDS has only two grades.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 6 Comments •
European Science Foundation Grades Journals
Category: Archaeology
Grade A means global readership. Grade B means international readership. Grade C means national readership.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 10 Comments •
Tobias Bondesson and the 333rd Coin
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 •
Early Neolithic Amber Hoard CT Scanned
Category: Archaeology
What were they supposed to do with a six-litre volume of crumbling amber?
Posted by Martin R at 8:50 AM • 15 Comments •
Danish Rubber Goat
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...
Posted by Martin R at 3:15 AM • 18 Comments •
A Century of Fornvännen Free On-Line
Category: Archaeology
The first 100 volumes of Fornvännen are now available freely on the web!
Posted by Martin R at 3:38 AM • 2 Comments •
Villestofte: Danish Bog Booty
Category: Archaeology
Victorious defenders dunked the equipment of foreign armies they had beaten into sacred lakes.
Posted by Martin R at 8:50 AM • 5 Comments •
Uppåkra Produces Marvels
Category: Archaeology
Digs like these make most sites that Swedish archaeologists spend their time on look like a complete waste of resources!
Posted by Martin R at 8:50 AM • 4 Comments •
Goldhahn vs. Berntsson Fight Resolved
Category: Archaeology
Whatever the result, it would have left the LAR editors looking bad.
Posted by Martin R at 3:48 AM • 5 Comments •
The Rude Implements of Savages
Category: Archaeology
"... one often finds in the earth artificially shaped stone objects that have clearly been wrought by human hands ..."
Posted by Martin R at 5:28 PM • 3 Comments •
Karl Hauck 1916-2007
Category: Archaeology
An old sorcerer has passed away.
Posted by Martin R at 8:50 AM • 0 Comments •
Archaeological Fist Fights in Lund
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 •
You Can't Grok Its Multiplicity
Category: Archaeology
Even heavily codified religions, such as Judaism or Christianity, aren't coherent.
Posted by Martin R at 9:05 AM • 18 Comments •
Book Review: Cambridge History of Scandinavia
Category: Archaeology
There is very little archaeology here.
Posted by Martin R at 9:05 AM • 18 Comments •
Viking Town Seminar
Category: Archaeology
"You cannot sleep when you are dealing with a monster site."
Posted by Martin R at 3:49 PM • 0 Comments •
Queer Theory of Ancient Gods
Category: Archaeology
"What needs to be considered is the agency of the objects ..."
Posted by Martin R at 9:05 AM • 1 Comments •
Danish Gold Fibula and Ring
Category: Archaeology
Brooches were what kept your clothes from falling off.
Posted by Martin R at 9:05 AM • 2 Comments •
Scandinavian Attitudes to Nudity
Category: Sweden
Scandinavians are unusually cool about nudity in certain well-defined situations.
Posted by Martin R at 9:05 AM • 32 Comments •
Journal of the North Atlantic Announced
Category: Archaeology
A new peer-reviewed intercontinental archaeology journal has just been announced.
Posted by Martin R at 2:26 PM • 0 Comments •
Antiquity's Spring Issue (With Polish Flint Babes)
Category: Archaeology
These finds constitute solid precedent to settle the boobs vs buns debate.
Posted by Martin R at 5:33 AM • 9 Comments •
Awaiting Kingdom Come With Drainpipe
Category: Archaeology
Waiting in the Earth's embrace for the arrival of the archaeologist.
Posted by Martin R at 9:05 AM • 5 Comments •
Gold Bracteate Paper On-Line
Category: Archaeology
The chronology and iconography of Migration Period gold bracteates.
Posted by Martin R at 9:05 AM • 2 Comments •
Stockholm Art Shows
Category: Photography
Work by Sally Mann, Henrik Saxgren and Alphonse Mucha is on display in Stockholm, Sweden.
Posted by Martin R at 9:05 AM • 0 Comments •
No Career Available in Scandinavian Archaeology
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...
Posted by Martin R at 7:31 AM • 9 Comments •
