Around the time when a senior academic retires, she will, if she's lucky, receive a Festschrift. The word is German and means "celebration publication": typically, it's an anthology put together by her colleagues and students. The contents of a...
Posted on January 17, 2008 8:20 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Even the stones in the bottoms of the post holes are visible!
Posted on January 10, 2008 2:36 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
This book is at heart an ethno-political tract.
Posted on December 7, 2007 1:21 PM • 36 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The first 100 volumes of
Fornvännen are now available freely on the web!
Posted on November 21, 2007 3:38 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
An entire hillside is covered by curious circular scars where people have obviously extracted stone.
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Posted on October 3, 2007 4:53 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Ideas diverge about who was who.
Posted on September 11, 2007 8:50 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The professor is studying a Roman/Migration Period large-scale iron production site.
Posted on September 7, 2007 2:34 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Satan laughing spreads his wings, as TV comedian Ozzy Osborne used to sing.
Posted on September 1, 2007 8:50 AM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The Sachsensymposium is the main conference for archaeologists working with post-Roman, pre-Viking Northern Europe.
Posted on August 24, 2007 12:49 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Over at my buddy Frans-Arne's blog Arkeologi i Nord I found a great quotation from Norwegian archaeologist and anti-Nazi politician Anton Wilhelm Brøgger (1884-1951):"Det vi vet er så uendelig lite mot det som er hendt. Arkeologen er som den som...
Posted on July 18, 2007 11:23 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks