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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
The divine inexistence vs living with the ancestors
2012-06-01 00:06:00 I have been struggling with how to combine realist ontologies from the continental philosophical tradition with that of the Maya. That is not an easy task as the ontology/ontologies of the Maya (ancient and contemporary) tend to be seen as ?social constructions? of some non-specified reality ?out there?. However, the problem is even greater than ...
Waste, trash, garbage, refuse, rubbish. Pt 1 ? landfill excavations
2012-05-30 08:19:00 For a long time I have planned to post something about the results from Rathje?s Garbage Project and since he passed away last week I decided to write these blog posts now. The Garbage Project distinguished between different types of waste. Trash refers to dry things like paper and cans. Garbage is wet waste like ...
RIP William Rathje
2012-05-29 15:21:00 One of the most influential archaeologists and Mayanists has passed away. William Rathje (1945-2012) began as a Mayanist and later in his life he initiated what has been known as garbology, the archaeological study of contemporary garbage. If you can get hold of Rubbish! The Archaeology of Garbage (1992), read it and your view of ...
Water weakening Earth?s plates
2012-05-29 04:31:00 My ?water project? keeps on expanding. I had planned to set the global climate system and the oceans as the largest scales where water affects other objects (as being part of the hydrological cycle). Looks like I now need to include a vertical subsurface affect as well. A new study suggests ?that water on the surface may ...
2012: Osmanagic and public archaeology
2012-05-27 23:02:00 You may remember that the Bosnian pyramid inventor Semir Osmanagic was invited to speak at a Swedish university a while ago. The reactions following this invitation caused some critical comments in the blogosphere. What you may not know is that this led to a forum discussion in issue # 2 of AP: Online Journal in ...
Trade and the Maya collapse
2012-05-23 22:33:00 Debates regarding the Maya collapse never end and in recent years various versions of the ?drought? hypothesis have dominated (I tend to criticize them on various grounds). A new study on the distribution of obsidian at Classic and Postclassic sites has brought back an old collapse scenario to life. Changing trade networks led to the ...
The extirpation of idolatry in Colonial Yucatan
2012-05-22 08:12:00 The extirpation of idolatry (idolatria) in the Maya area is a sad history of religious intolerance. During Colonial times idolatria meant ?the adoration or cult that gentiles give to creatures or statues of their false gods? (p 149). From the earliest days of Christianity, idolatry became linked with superstition which was seen as a confession ...
2012: New Age reactions to the Xultun discovery
2012-05-16 20:54:00 On Friday 11 May, John Major Jenkins (JMJ) wrote this on Facebook in response to the Xultun discovery: ?Good news of new inscriptions. But scholars are using it to dismiss 2012. They are doing that by saying that it’s not about doomsday. DUH. Maya time is cyclic and goes on beyond 2012 — DUH. But ...
Quote of the day: spiny hedgehogs
2012-05-16 20:54:00 My son Simon is in today’s Göteborg sposten (p 7), one of Sweden’s largest newspapers (only in the paper version as far as I can tell). We went to a family day at the city museum of Gothenburg. The theme of the day was “cultivate now”, to get people more interested in growing plants. My son began ...
2012: The Xultun discovery in Swedish news
2012-05-16 20:54:00 I had planned something else for this post, since it is #666, but I changed my mind this morning when I saw a 56 seconds long clip on the Rapport news on SVT (Swedish television) concerning the discovery of the astronomical tables at Xultun that I mentioned in my previous post. Vetenskapsradion, on the Swedish ... Mer om: Iron maiden , Sveriges Radio
Classic period astronomical tables
2012-05-16 20:54:00 Most of the archaeoastronomical information from the Maya area concerning the movement of the Sun, Moon and planets like Venus, Mars and Mercury has been found in the Postclassic codices. In the recent issue of Science, Saturno, Stuart, Aveni and Rossi report on early 9th century wall paintings from the site of Xultun that includes ...
2012: Julia-Levy and the Mexican law
2012-05-16 20:54:00 Readers of this blog may recall that I have written about an upcoming documentary that supposedly will show that the Maya were visited by aliens. The producer behind this documentary, the Mexican soap opera actor Raul Julia-Levy, is in the pseudo-news again. It now seems that the documentary may not be finished (unless this is ... Mer om: Mexico
The Maya world of communicating objects
2012-05-16 20:54:00 Tonight I will begin to read Miguel Angel Astor-Aguilera’s book The Maya World of Communicating Objects: Quadripartite Cross es, Trees, and Stones (2011). Miguel is an anthropologist and he has worked in the ejido of X-Cabil in the Cochuah region, half-way between Saban and Tihosuco. This will hopefully be my final book to read for my ...
Water in and between other objects ? vessels and age-grade rituals
2012-05-16 20:54:00 One of the ?case studies? in my water as an archaeological object project deals with artifacts either produced by the help of water or produced to deal with water in one way or another. Ceramic vessels are first modeled when the clay is wet but later in the process water needs to be removed by ...
Brief update
2012-05-16 20:54:00 In case you wonder why there are so few blog posts these days it has to do with the fact that I have only 1,5 month left of work before my vacation. I have to finish a multitude of articles (nine or ten I think it is!) and work on two books. So my work ... Mer om: Books
Walpurgis night
2012-05-16 20:54:00 Tomorrow it is Walpurgis night here in Sweden (Valborgsmässoafton or simply Valborg). The weather forescast predicts good weather so my prediction is that we will have plenty of drunk people welcoming the spring around bonfires. This is also the time when the students’ choirs sing “Längtan till landet” (better known as “Vintern rasat ut”). Valborg is ... Mer om: valborg
Rivers run deep, high, and wild
2012-05-16 20:54:00 Last week I read Matt Edgeworth?s book on the archaeology of rivers. It is a short book but it contains plenty of interesting examples for my own study on water as an archaeological object. I will describe three of these examples. For Edgeworth ?most rivers are neither natural nor cultural, but rather entanglements of both? ... Mer om: Sweden , China
Giant dinosaur eggs??
2012-05-16 20:54:00 I read in the news that geologists in Chechnya believe they have found more than 40 giant dinosaur eggs. The largest is said to be one m long but there are examples that are 25 cm long as well (which is roughly the size of the largest known dinosaur eggs). I doubt that these are ...
Speculations regarding an object oriented time
2012-05-16 20:54:00 In my search for a concept of time for archaeological purposes that is compatible with Harman?s object-oriented philosophy I have now returned to an old blog post of mine. The old blog post is based on my licentiate thesis which was written during my ?pre-Bergsonian? period. I have earlier described the way Husserl?s model of ...
Accept Stalingrad
2012-05-16 20:54:00 A new album by my all time favorite German heavy metal band, Accept, has been released. The album is named after the battle of Stalingrad where two million people died during WWII. Germany lost in this turning event of the war. Tunes from the Soviet/Russian national anthem is included at around 4:30. Filed under: Entertainment Tagged: ... Mer om: Music
2012: The correlation issue again ? GMT+2
2012-05-16 20:54:00 Readers of the blog may recall that I covered Gerardo Aldana?s article on the problems of the GMT correlation constant(s) almost 1.5 years ago. He argues that the correlation issue has not been resolved and that it may be off by at least 60 days. One of his arguments relates to Stela 3 at the ...
2012: Friday the 13th, pt 2
2012-05-16 20:54:00 Today it is Friday the 13th in the year of 13 Baktun for the second time (there will be one in July as well). However, this is the first Friday the 13th after the Classic Maya New Year, and the first one after the last 4 Ajaw before 13 Baktun. That must mean something…? Please do ...
2012: New Age reactions to the Xultun discovery
2012-05-14 20:36:00 On Friday 11 May, John Major Jenkins (JMJ) wrote this on Facebook in response to the Xultun discovery: ?Good news of new inscriptions. But scholars are using it to dismiss 2012. They are doing that by saying that it’s not about doomsday. DUH. Maya time is cyclic and goes on beyond 2012 — DUH. But ...
Quote of the day: spiny hedgehogs
2012-05-14 10:21:00 My son Simon is in today’s Göteborg sposten (p 7), one of Sweden’s largest newspapers (only in the paper version as far as I can tell). We went to a family day at the city museum of Gothenburg. The theme of the day was “cultivate now”, to get people more interested in growing plants. My son began ...
2012: The Xultun discovery in Swedish news
2012-05-11 12:17:00 I had planned something else for this post, since it is #666, but I changed my mind this morning when I saw a 56 seconds long clip on the Rapport news on SVT (Swedish television) concerning the discovery of the astronomical tables at Xultun that I mentioned in my previous post. Vetenskapsradion, on the Swedish ... Mer om: Iron maiden , Sveriges Radio
Classic period astronomical tables
2012-05-10 20:47:00 Most of the archaeoastronomical information from the Maya area concerning the movement of the Sun, Moon and planets like Venus, Mars and Mercury has been found in the Postclassic codices. In the recent issue of Science, Saturno, Stuart, Aveni and Rossi report on early 9th century wall paintings from the site of Xultun that includes ...
2012: Julia-Levy and the Mexican law
2012-05-10 17:15:00 Readers of this blog may recall that I have written about an upcoming documentary that supposedly will show that the Maya were visited by aliens. The producer behind this documentary, the Mexican soap opera actor Raul Julia-Levy, is in the pseudo-news again. It now seems that the documentary may not be finished (unless this is ... Mer om: Mexico
The Maya world of communicating objects
2012-05-09 19:33:00 Tonight I will begin to read Miguel Angel Astor-Aguilera’s book The Maya World of Communicating Objects: Quadripartite Cross es, Trees, and Stones (2011). Miguel is an anthropologist and he has worked in the ejido of X-Cabil in the Cochuah region, half-way between Saban and Tihosuco. This will hopefully be my final book to read for my ...
Water in and between other objects ? vessels and age-grade rituals
2012-05-09 06:01:00 One of the ?case studies? in my water as an archaeological object project deals with artifacts either produced by the help of water or produced to deal with water in one way or another. Ceramic vessels are first modeled when the clay is wet but later in the process water needs to be removed by ...
Brief update
Mer artiklar från denna bloggen:2012-05-04 06:57:00 In case you wonder why there are so few blog posts these days it has to do with the fact that I have only 1,5 month left of work before my vacation. I have to finish a multitude of articles (nine or ten I think it is!) and work on two books. So my work ... Mer om: Books 1-30, 31-60, 61-90, 91-120, 121-150 |
