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Aardvarchaeology

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

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Swedes Produce Hot Water, Dump It Into Sea

For historical reasons having nothing to do with engineering or rationality, Swedish nuclear power plants dump a lot of warm cooling water into the sea. In a revealing blog entry, Paddy K offers an estimate of just how much energy...

Queen Christina's Quarter Coin Again

In their day they were the largest issue yet in the history of Sweden.

Stockholm Blogmeet 1 September

Just back home from a lovely evening in the company of friends. Good food, good drink and good conversation with (left to right) Tor, Felicia, Kai, Ã…sa, Pat, Anders and Lars & Thinker who left before I thought of...

Mushroom Harvest

Today we had eleven kinds, most of them hedgehogs and boletes.

Roman Coin Prank

A recent unusual find is very likely a wry gift from an archaeologist.

Criss Cross: Swedish Scrabble Ripoff

Scrabble was first published in 1948. Shortly thereafter, it was ripped off for the Swedish market by a firm named Lemeco, under the tell-tale Anglophone title Criss Cross. The main difference between the ripoff and the original is that...

Bob Lind Gets Grant

Bob has neither formal qualifications nor any excavation experience.

Fireweed

Wind-borne seeds like thistledown that can sprout anywhere.

Bob Lind Challenges Me to a Duel

"You with your fine archaeological credentials will surely not find reason to complain."

33 Test Pits

Today we dug and sieved our 33rd and last square-meter test pit at Djurhamn, and I took the gear back to the County Museum's stores. Unless a colleague with better early-modern pottery skillz than mine provides any surprises, it seems...

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