Fornvännen’s Spring Issue On-line

Kul att du tipsade om Roger W:s artikel. Vilken upptäckt! Han är verkligen ett tidlöst andeväsen, den evige trissvinnaren bland fornsökare. Hörde du om högen han undersökte i Tyresta? Och när han ryckte in i Gamla Uppsala så hamnade han naturligtvis i det mest intressanta grophuset. Men det märkligaste av allt är att han och Mattias P är så lika till utseendet. Det är som två tvillingbröder som förenats en stund i nutiden i jakt på sitt förflutna.

Martin, since badgers have a pugnacious* reputation it is only fitting that they should be digging into viking-era burial mounds.
* I like that word.
I could never have the patience to do work on the history of legends. Greek and Norse legends might be endurable, but Christian-era legends are so bland. A trickster who outsmarts the gods is worth a thosuand pages of pious zzzzzz.

Fortunate re-discovery of archive documentation, good that we do not need a specific OS to read them...and old paper was not as acidic, allowing it to survive longer.
And obviously the "miniature" axes were used by dwarwes and gnomes, some of which remain today (see "The Underpants Gnomes"). OT: Neolithic horror ? http://www.gocomics.com/getfuzzy/2012/11/05

The geography of these articles is really depressing. They all focus on eastern Sweden. This really highlights that archeological research in western Sweden is basically nonexistent.

It's true that there is not much in Fornvännen about Halland, Västergötland, Bohuslän, Dalsland, Värmland. And there is only one major city in the region as compared to several in eastern Sweden, which means there's less land development and so less contract archaeology. But I believe the main reason that Fornvännen offers little Western Swedish archaeology is that the editors are based in Lund and Stockholm and do not have a good contact network on the west coast. Western Swedish archaeologists do produce work, but they choose other venues when they publish.

This area represents 20% of the Swedish population. The largest university in Sweden is located here. The explanation is obvious when you look into the interest of the staff at the University of Gothenburg; archeological department. We won’t see anything from these guys in Fornvännen anytime soon.
Martin

That I agree with. Too few of my colleagues at the department of archaeology in Gothenburg are doing the kind of empirical work that you and I value and being active in western Sweden. The staff isn't huge to begin with once you remove the Mediterranean archaeologists.

http://www.historiskastudier.gu.se/Personal/larare-forskare/

Värmland. And there is only one major city in the region as compared to several in eastern Sweden, which means there’s less land development and so less contract archaeology. But I believe the main reason that Fornvännen offers little Western Swedish

(OT) Archaeologists examine one of the oldest hoards found in Europe http://phys.org/news/2012-11-archeologists-oldest-hoards-europe.html
PS If any of you are travelling to Australia, there is a total solar eclipse there Nov.14.

(OT) USA is the new Numenor!
"Beck: America Deserves to Be Destroyed for Electing Obama" http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/2012/11/07/beck-america-deserves…
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
(sorry Martin, I couldn't help myself)

(OT) Atlatl invented 71,000 Years Ago http://phys.org/news/2012-11-small-lethal-tools-big-implications.html ...found in a layered deposit stretching more than 40.000 years. Extraordinary.