Sketches of Boz
In the second novel-length third of Stephen Jarvis’s hefty Death and Mr Pickwick, artist and caricaturist Robert Seymour starts in earnest to put ideas together for the Pickwick Papers. Yes, that’s...
View ArticleGun Stash Suddenly Unavailable
A colleague of mine has left contract archaeology to work for the police as a civil utredare, that is, someone with a university degree who works on crime cases despite not being a policeperson. He...
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July Pieces Of My Mind #2
Jrette wandering around watching TV on the iPad, overturning and breaking things in the kitchen. *sigh* Thorin sits down and starts singing about gold. Jrette stole my zombie novel — Carey’s 2014 Girl...
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August Pieces Of My Mind #2
Registering the bones from this summer’s fieldwork at Landsjö. Getting rid of excess stuff. Azerbaijani dude with a huge beautiful beard showed up on his wife’s orders and collected both bike baby...
View ArticleJanuary Pieces Of My Mind #1
2015 was an amazing year for scifi movies. The Martian, Fury Road, Force Awakens. And I hear Ex Machina is good too? Tess Parks’s “Life Is But A Dream” sounds exactly like Mazzy Star. Tolkien Society...
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Toby Martin: The Cruciform Brooch and Anglo-Saxon England (part 2)
Toby Martin 2015, The Cruciform Brooch and Anglo-Saxon England Back around Christmas I reviewed the first three chapters of Toby Martin’s big book about Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooches. Those are the...
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Fornvännen’s Winter Issue On-Line
Dress pin heads from Viidumäe on Saaremaa. Fornvännen 2015:4 is now on-line on Open Access. Therese Ekholm compares radiocarbon dates on bone versus charcoal from ostensibly closed contexts on Stone...
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Autumn Speaking Schedule
For the first time since 2011 I haven’t got any teaching this autumn semester, which is really bad both for my finances and for my troop morale. (I feel like my colleagues would celebrate or not even...
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National Heritage Board Abdicates Again At Ales Stenar
Bob Lind has yet again managed to get the National Heritage Board to abdicate its responsibility at Ales Stenar, a beautiful 7th century AD burial monument near Ystad in southern Sweden. Bob has...
View Article“Don’t Call Us, Call National Property”
Yesterday we had a guest entry from Lars Amréus, the Director General of the National Heritage Board about the signage with fringe theories at a much-visited archaeological site in southern Sweden. As...
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