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Archaeological HaecceitiesArchaeological HaecceitiesDen svenske arkeologen Johan Normarks engelskspråkiga blogg. Här finner du arkeologi, mayaforskning, antropologi, filosofi, paleontologi, klimatforskning, kreationism, New Age, pseudovetenskap, och min främsta fritidssysselsättning som är resor. Artiklar
2012: SNL attempts to make ?fun? of the ?Mayan calendar?
2012-02-07 22:19:00 Saturday Night Live attempts to make fun of the 2012 circus but the most amusing part of the video was clearly unintended. In this video you will find jokes that have been around for a while, such as the “Mayans ran out of space and stopped” or “the circle was not big enough”. What is ...
2012: Friday the 13th
2012-02-07 22:19:00 Today it is Friday the 13th in the year of 13 Baktun. Whatever you do today be careful because he is back, the man behind the mask and the investiture (Jason aka Bolon Yokte’ K’uh). Filed under: New age and creationism Tagged: 13 Baktun, 2012, Aztec calendar stone, Bolon Yookte? K?uh, Friday the 13th, Jason
2012: Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall
2012-02-07 22:19:00 As a critic of the 2012 circus, should I add more fuel to it or should I not? I have already suggested that 2012ers should look at 2027 if (or rather when) nothing happens later this year. 2027 is when the Aztec Calendar Round comes to a full circle next time (and the 2027ers can ... Mer om: China , Satan
2012: Who makes the profit?
2012-02-03 20:24:00 Watch this clip from The Stream on Al Jazeera. Here Quetzil Castañeda and Alejandra Garcia Quintanilla discuss who actually makes the profit of the whole 2012 circus. I will most likely not visit any part of the Maya area this year so I will not be supporting the tourist industry. Filed under: New age and creationism ...
Presentation at GU
2012-02-03 06:54:00 After one year I actually got a short presentation of myself on the homepage of the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Gothenburg (Göteborg s universitet, GU). Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: Göteborg, University of Gothenburg
A ketchup effect
2012-01-30 19:39:00 Do not expect any longer posts in the next two weeks or so on this blog. The reason is that I have a couple of deadlines for articles and I really should send away a bunch of articles as soon as possible. The deadline articles are the articles Caves in the Cochuah region and Miniature ...
Speculations of how cumulative time was replaced by cyclical time
2012-01-26 20:42:00 A year from now I will send away an application for a new project. There is plenty of time to develop some ideas and time is exactly the central part of the project. It will take too long to describe the overall frame of the project idea as it melts ideas from neuroscience (or rather ...
New book on ancient Maya technology
2012-01-25 06:27:00 A new book has just been published on ancient Maya technology. Those seeking to know something about intergalactic travelling devices, such as stargates, will be greatly disappointed. This is book is called The Technology of Maya Civilization: Political Economy and Beyond in Lithic Studies and is edited by Geoffrey Braswell, Zachary X. Hruby, and Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos. This ...
2012: Events that should have occurred if the Long Count is cyclical
2012-01-24 10:22:00 Many 2012ers believe that the Long Count calendar is cyclical and that creation events literally will repeat (they believe Maya mythology describes real events). If we follow this logic people would have seen some pretty amazing events in the last two centuries. Inscriptions from Palenque describe events that took place before the creation of the ...
Happy Water Dragon Year
2012-01-23 07:17:00 Today it is the first day of the Chinese lunisolar year. It is not just the year of the Dragon, but the year of the Water Dragon, to be followed by the year of the Water Snake next year. Let’s not hope some people connects these facts with some other beings believed to be associated ...
2012: How to deal with cranks
2012-01-22 22:55:00 I have read two contrasting texts this weekend. The first one is related to Semir Osmanagic?s visit to the Linnaeus University last year, after an invitation by Cornelius Holtorf. In an article called Beyond crusades: how (not) to engage with alternative archaeologies Holtorf is appalled about the way archaeologists deals with ?alternative? or ?fringe? archaeologists, ... Mer om: New Age
Four bear skulls found in a cenote
2012-01-21 22:52:00 Guillermo de Anda’s team has found four bear skulls in a cenote that may date back to the end of the Ice-Age. They appear to have been found 50 m below the surface and the cenote was not filled with water at the time of their death. Filed under: Archaeology, Climate and related issues, Mayanist studies ...
CRAS is ready for a new season
2012-01-18 23:31:00 I have been affiliated with the Cochuah Regional Archaeological Survey (CRAS) since 2003. This has resulted in five field seasons for me (2003, 2004, 2005, 2008 and 2010). The fieldwork has given me data for my dissertation project on causeways and my postdoctoral project on caves and climate change. I have designed my new project on ... Mer om: Mexico
EMC 2012 in Helsinki calls for papers
2012-01-17 16:56:00 This year’s European Maya Conference (EMC) will be held in Helsinki. The theme of the conference is On Methods: How we know what we think we know about the Maya. I am not sure if I will attend it yet since I only participate in conferences where I deliver a paper of my own. Hence, ...
2012: My first 2012 related article
2012-01-16 09:33:00 I have just sent away a short contribution to a special issue of the online journal in public archaeology called JAS Arquelogía. The issue will deal with Semir Osmanagic and the fact that he was invited to a Swedish University last year. My contribution, apart from being the first blog post about this event, will primarily discuss the connections ... Mer om: New Age
2012: SNL attempts to make ?fun? of the ?Mayan calendar?
2012-01-15 07:37:00 Saturday Night Live attempts to make fun of the 2012 circus but the most amusing part of the video was clearly unintended. In this video you will find jokes that have been around for a while, such as the “Mayans ran out of space and stopped” or “the circle was not big enough”. What is ...
2012: Friday the 13th
2012-01-13 14:18:00 Today it is Friday the 13th in the year of 13 Baktun. Whatever you do today be careful because he is back, the man behind the mask and the investiture (Jason aka Bolon Yokte’ K’uh). Filed under: New age and creationism Tagged: 13 Baktun, 2012, Aztec calendar stone, Bolon Yookte? K?uh, Friday the 13th, Jason
2012: Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall
2012-01-12 13:49:00 As a critic of the 2012 circus, should I add more fuel to it or should I not? I have already suggested that 2012ers should look at 2027 if (or rather when) nothing happens later this year. 2027 is when the Aztec Calendar Round comes to a full circle next time (and the 2027ers can ... Mer om: China , Satan
The home of his tobacco
2012-01-11 07:27:00 I realize that I have focused too much on the 2012 circus during the last month. There has not been much interesting news in Maya studies (not for me anyway). However, here is some interesting news that confirms an earlier hieroglyphic decipherment. David Stuart once deciphered the ?tobacco glyph? (MAY). A flask from around AD ...
2012: Some fascist roots
2012-01-10 09:14:00 I have noted before that the 2012 phenomenon is filled with ethnocentric and even racist ideas. To claim that the Maya originated from outer space or that they were incapable of constructing pyramids is simply a devaluation of their intellectual capacity. These ideas come in several forms; Sichin?s annunaki, Bast?s mysterious elders, Atlantis , etc. The ... Mer om: Fascism
2011 in review
2012-01-03 13:44:00 The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 74,000 times in 2011. If it were an exhibit at the Louvre Museum, it would take about 3 days for that many people to see ... Mer om: Blog
2012: Michio Kaku on what will happen this year
2012-01-03 08:17:00 I am sure you have seen the physicist Michio Kaku on TV before since he is one of the main public figures in science, and particularly in physics. In this clip from CNN he briefly shares his opinion and knowledge about the Maya calendar (3 minutes into the clip). Here I must side with PZ ...
2012: Michio Kaku on what will happen this year
2012-01-03 08:17:00 I am sure you have seen the physicist Michio Kaku on TV before since he is one of the main public figures in science, and particularly in physics. In this clip from CNN he briefly shares his opinion and knowledge about the Maya calendar (3 minutes into the clip). Here I must side with PZ ...
2011 in review
2012-01-01 06:54:00 The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 74,000 times in 2011. If it were an exhibit at the Louvre Museum, it would take about 3 days for that many people to see ... Mer om: Blog
Happy New Year
2011-12-30 00:24:00 This will be my final post for the year. I hope to be back blogging at normal pace next week. So, until then have a happy beginning of 2012! Filed under: Events
Happy New Year
2011-12-30 00:24:00 This will be my final post for the year. I hope to be back blogging at normal pace next week. So, until then have a happy beginning of 2012! Filed under: Events
2012: About the supposed Maya site in Georgia
2011-12-27 19:27:00 Richard Thornton, an architect and design examiner who claims to be trained in Mesoamerican architecture, argues that there is a Maya site in the mountains of Georgia. In this article he presents the supposed evidence for it. However, we are not really presented with any substantial evidence, just statements like that the ruins ?consisted of ...
2012: The Hobbit
2011-12-27 19:27:00 Today, it is one year left to the dreadful date when the 2012 circus reaches its grand final. I am looking forward to that end. What I do look forward to even more is the 14th of December. This is the day when The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey has its premiere. I sure hope the world ...
2012: National Geographic partly misrepresents the Long Count
2011-12-27 19:27:00 National Geographic explains the Long Count calendar and writes that the calendar will reset when it reaches 13 Baktun and therefore initiate a new cycle. This is not true but it remains a common belief among some Mayanists and the majority of 2012ers. People usually set up a basic dichotomy between two supposedly radically different conceptualizations ...
2012: Kim Jong-il and Vaclav Havel
Mer artiklar från denna bloggen:2011-12-27 19:27:00 Let’s see how we can connect the deaths of the North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il and the former president of Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic, Vaclav Havel, to the “end” date of the Maya Long Count. Their deaths are almost one year before next year’s winter solstice (that is an obvious connection…). Kim was a communist which is synonymous ... Mer om: China 1-30, 31-60, 61-90, 91-120, 121-150 |
