I was reminded of this timely song when discussing an odd 7th century burial at Norsborg with my friend Dr. Ing-Marie Back Danielsson. The buried individual has been murdered, which triggered the association.
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Very timely with the discovery of the Kaga foil-figure model, my buddy Ing-Marie Back Danielsson has published her PhD thesis in archaeology, Masking Moments. The transitions of bodies and beings in Late Iron Age Scandinavia (available on-line). There's a picture of a foil-figure or other late-1st…
The Swedish Higher Education Authority (Universitetskanslersämbetet) has evaluated our basic university programmes in a long series of subjects. The results for archaeology were published yesterday, based on the status 2012. There were 21 BA (3 yrs), Mag.Phil. (4 yrs) and MA (5 yrs) programmes at…
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Some time ago I received a gift from my aunt, bought at the County Museum of Gotland, a limestone island in the Baltic with an extremely rich archaeological record. The gift was a…
A royally furnished inhumation cemetery of the 7th century has been excavated at Loftus in Teesside, north-eastern England. The finds are sensational as they hail from the "final phase" of furnished burial, when England had already been re-Christianised and grave wealth was in steep decline. Among…
Thanks for reminding me! I'm low on cyanide-coated peanuts and need to make up a new batch.
Totally off-topic: the Planetary Society is planning a tour to western Asia Minor October 3-14 to view a meteor rain that will be most easily viewed at that meridian during its culmination. They usually plan such tours to pass places of great historical and cultural interest -in this case the great hellenistic and roman-era ruins of the region.
I thought it might be a great idea to combine two passions: for astronomy, and for archaeology (more info should be available at their web sire).
Sounds great!
A web sire must be someone who offers an insemination service on-line.
Impiety! Lack of propriety!
DNA transfer online? That is very...hygienic. I am reminded on the Japanese virtual celebrity who made herself real by "rapid prototyping" in one of Gibson's novels.
Yes, yes, I did not use spell check.
("You are all individuals"!)
("Yes, yes, we are all individuals!")
("Not me !")
Old tech rules: "Trebuchets for Everybody!"
http://scienceblogs.com/principles/2011/03/trebuchets_for_everybody.php
Martin R @ #3:
Oh come on, that was obviously just a typo. Clearly he meant the web shire: the place where web hobbits live.
Ah! The varied joys of an urban pass-time! ;)