14th century pilgrim's badge of St. Bridget found in the River Fyris at Uppsala.
Fornvännen 2015:3 is now on-line on Open Access.
- Lars Larsson on an unusual Late Neolithic burial monument at the record-breaking 1st millennium site of Uppåkra.
- Christina Fredengren on deposition of human and animal bodies in the waters of inland Uppland.
- Lars Liedgren and Ingela Bergman on a previously unpublished 1921 excavation of a Late Medieval farmstead near Luleå.
- Birgit Maixner on the confusing and counterproductive results of Norwegian counties interpreting heritage law regarding metal detector finds independently of each other.
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I've linked before to Christina Fredengren's ground-breaking paper in Fornvännen 2015:3 about human and animal remains found in wet contexts in Uppland province (the area around Uppsala). The study's empirical base is solid and eye-opening. I don't find find the theoretical superstructure that the…
Fornvännen 2013:4 is now on-line on Open Access.
Ulf Ragnesten on an ornate late-1st millenium BC bronze chain belt from a cremation grave in a Gothenburg suburb.
Lars Larsson and Bengt Söderberg on recent excavations at the huge 1st millennium AD royal manor complex of Uppåkra, with in situ arson…
Fornvännen's web site has become subsumed into the general document repository of the National Heritage Board. I am not happy about this. But still, we can now offer two new issues on-line for free! So much good research here!
Autumn 2012 (no 3):
Ludvig Papmehl-Dufay on the first farmers of Öland…
The new version of a slab from the Kivik cairn.
Fornvännen 2015:1 is now on-line on Open Access.
Sven Sandström on fake Paleolithic art in France.
Andreas Toreld and Tommy Andersson on sensational new discoveries on the carved slabs of the Kivik burial cairn. They've been endlessly discussed…
(OT) -We killed the Neanderthals the way we killed the indians!
"Neanderthals may have been infected by diseases carried out of Africa by (anatomically modern) humans" http://phys.org/news/2016-04-neanderthals-infected-diseases-africa-huma…
(OT again)
-at least now I hope we can dismiss the tossers who claim the whole Deuteroneum in the Old Testament goes back to the bronze age. Scholars knew that long ago, but now we can constrain the dates for various passages even more. This is of little interest for most Swedes, but I imagine the texts still play a role in USA.
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"Handwriting analysis provides clues for dating of old testament texts" http://phys.org/news/2016-04-analysis-clues-dating-testament-texts.html
The high literacy rate is only an indirect indicator of this time period as critical for authorial work of the OT. There are of course older fragments embedded in the texts, showing a window to monolatrist and even polytheist times. (The latter show some similarities to the worldview of texts from bronze-age Ugarit much further north)
And monolatrism is the "recognition of the existence of many gods but with the consistent worship of only one deity".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monolatrism
"Radio-carbon study suggests Chauvet-Pont d'Arc cave art much older than thought" http://phys.org/news/2016-04-radio-carbon-chauvet-pont-darc-cave-art.ht…
Rarely do we see something get its age revised another 10.000 years upward!!!
This is nothing new. There are two versions of the Hebrew creation myth in Genesis. According to people who study such things, one of those versions uses the plural word for God, elohim. There is also the bit about "a pillar of smoke by day, a pillar of fire at night," suggesting that YHWH was originally a volcano god.