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Aardvarchaeology

Martin Rundkvist's blog. Archaeology, skepticism, Sweden. And books and music and stuff.

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Weekend Fun

Category: Tech

Saturday me and the kids went on an unusual package tour. First we took the 1903 steam ship Mariefred from Stockholm to Mariefred, and got to visit the engine room while the machine was working. Mariefred is a small town...

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Beowulf Saves the Royal Pub

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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Open Source Dendrochronology

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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17th Century Coin Forgery

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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Centenarian Open Access Archaeology Journal

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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Baroque Lion Mask from the Peerless Palace

Category: Art

North European Baroque is such a weird and lovely style. The wreck of the Vasa is a prime example, and there's a lot of it on the facades of houses in the Old Town too.

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Silence is the Enemy: But What is Wrong With Those Men!?

Category: Children

In the long run, Darwinian selection acts upon cultures. But us in the world at large can't wait for that to make the current cultures of Liberia and Congo go extinct.

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Inga Clendinnen: Dancing with Strangers

Category: Books

Dancing with Strangers is an account of one of world history's most absurd situations.

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North Shore Battlefield

Category: Archaeology

I'm particularly interested in the pre-battle finds that are starting to accumulate.

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Gothic Confusion

Category: History

We're dealing both with historical reality and with historical fiction written a long time ago.

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Mapping Swedes and Geats

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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Djurhamn 2008 Fieldwork Report On-Line

Category: Archaeology

The results were actually a bit of a let-down after the sword I found in '07.

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Ola Wikander and Fictional Beings

Category: Language

Essentially, they're the same guy: a storm god called "the Lord".

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Djurhamn Sword Artwork

Category: Archaeology

They've stuck the Djurhamn sword point first into a vintage map of Djurö!

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Ploughed-Out Bomber Airbase

Category: Archaeology

From 1942 to 1946 it was an RAF bomber airfield, and then it reverted to farmland.

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Bones of Copernicus Get Positive ID

Category: History

Polish bishop asks archaeologists to find the unmarked grave of Nicolaus Copernicus under the floor of Frombork Cathedral. Archaeologists find a damaged burial including a jawless skull, and note that it's a male of the right age and with signature...

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Respectful Vandals

Category: History

Kids in Visby are defacing the town's jail from 1857 but respecting the Medieval town wall.

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Lad Lit: Ninjas and Pirates

Category: History

Seeing constant mentions of ninjas and pirates on the web, I became curious about the historical reality of these matters.

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Royal Medals Copied

Category: Archaeology

I wonder if these clay copies may have been made by the sculptor, as a kind of backup copies?

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Purse Torment Tavern

Category: History

Apparently, the prices were a bit on the stiff side, and so tended to torment your coin purse.

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Arabic Brass Folding Tables

Category: Art

My granddad told lots of stories of his years in India, the greatest adventure of his life.

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Mad as a Potter from Lead Stalactites

Category: Archaeology

"Inside the tinned food we found so much lead, that it hung like icicles inside the cans".

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The Copper Mine of Falun

Category: Archaeology

The copper mine of Falun was once a major part of Sweden's economic backbone.

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I Lost World War II Today

Category: Gaming

Continuing our military theme from the other day, I regret to inform you, Dear Reader, that the Axis won World War II. After Pearl Harbour, the US couldn't decide whether to concentrate its efforts in the Pacific or the...

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Book Review: Alsdorf, Auf den Spuren

Category: History

Things were grim in the Third Reich in the spring of 1945.

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Georgia and Georgia and the Georgics

Category: Language

Noreen Malone at Slate explains why Georgia and Georgia are both named Georgia. Basically it's:George means "ploughman" in ancient Greek Saint George dies in AD 303 Part of Central Asia (Georgia) becomes associated with the saint for unknown reasons Crusaders...

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Shermer and the Drake Equation

Category: History

Extraterrestrials won't be interested in the political details of small parts of Earth's surface over time.

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Test Pitting at Djurhamn

Category: Archaeology

I wish one of those pits would strike a 16th century midden!

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Continued Surveying at Djurhamn

Category: Archaeology

Working in the woods was weird because of the outlandish sounds from a colony of grey herons.

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The Secrets Behind Names

Category: History

The names that dot the landscape once meant something about those places.

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Dog Detectorists

Category: Archaeology

"...might not the sense of smell guide people or animals in the search for [buried] money?"

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Book Review: Greenblatt, Will in the World

Category: Books

Greenblatt's method is to paint a rich and solid historical background to Shakespeare's life and professional activity.

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Swedish Monastic Archaeology Boom

Category: Archaeology

A conference on monastic archaeology takes place at Vretakloster 4-5 September.

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All My Readers are Descendants of Royalty

Category: History

There are almost 1100 billion slots on your family tree in AD 1000.

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The Strange Fate of the First Christian Burials on Gotland

Category: Archaeology

The chain of events is convoluted and quite fascinating.

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Clas Tollin on 12th Century Land Ownership

Category: Archaeology

"Manorial farms, private churches and the genesis of parishes in the Omberg-Tåkern area in the Early Middle Ages"

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Build Your Life on Eternal Truths

Category: Travel

I just popped out for a burger at Arbee's, and I chose a seat with a good view of the full moon riding high over a Shell gas station. On the wall of the station was a large luminescent...

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Battle Damage Found on Djurhamn Sword

Category: Archaeology

The edges have several fresh parry nicks that would have made the sword hard to sheathe.

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Chinese Archaeology Loses Proto-Historical Innocence

Category: Archaeology

Proto-history offers a powerful lure to all students of the past.

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Toxic Dump Too Close For Comfort

Category: Environment

This was one of those paper mills that used mercury in a big way.

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Church of Santa

Category: History

One of the oldest extant buildings is the great church beside the royal castle. Here, Santa was worshipped for nearly three centuries.

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Book Review: Kroik, Hellre Mista sitt Huvud

Category: History

This book is at heart an ethno-political tract.

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Sacred Parthenogenesis

Category: History

Virgin Birth is an old dogma, implicit already in the Nicene creed of AD 381. That means that overturning this article of faith would undermine a lot of other important material.

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A Runic Farewell

Category: Archaeology

From about 1845 to 1930, Sweden saw massive emigration to the United States.

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The Relics of St Ursula and the 11,000 Virgins

Category: Archaeology

11,000 dead virgins. And every scrap of bone counted as a relic of St. Ursula.

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Viking Army Councils

Category: Archaeology

The oldest known territorial unit in Östergötland is the härad district (etymologically, "army council").

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Anders Söderberg on Sigtuna Metalworking

Category: Archaeology

They are making sense of stuff that usually ends up in large anonymous sacks that nobody ever opens.

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Jim Benton on Christianity's Problem of Communication

Category: Skepticism

Jesus was an incredibly inefficient and incompetent conveyor of his 'message'.

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17th Century Urban Archaeology

Category: Archaeology

17th-century urban layers in a part of town laid out and settled by royal decree.

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History Carnival 58

Category: Carnival

History! Carnival! History Carnival! Yay! Carnival-a-rooney! Woo!

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