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Aardvarchaeology

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

Norway:

Jenny-Rita Næss Honoured On-Line

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...

Geophysics Locate Royal Halls at Borre

Even the stones in the bottoms of the post holes are visible!

Book Review: Kroik, Hellre Mista sitt Huvud

This book is at heart an ethno-political tract.

A Century of Fornvännen Free On-Line

The first 100 volumes of Fornvännen are now available freely on the web!

Medieval Soapstone Quarry

An entire hillside is covered by curious circular scars where people have obviously extracted stone.

Oseberg Skeletons Exhumed

Ideas diverge about who was who.

Professor Steve Steve Studies Norwegian Archaeology

The professor is studying a Roman/Migration Period large-scale iron production site.

Grim Lords of Black Metal

Satan laughing spreads his wings, as TV comedian Ozzy Osborne used to sing.

Going to Trondheim

The Sachsensymposium is the main conference for archaeologists working with post-Roman, pre-Viking Northern Europe.

Beachcombing the Shores of Time

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...

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