Archive for 21st of May, 2005
A Viking House in Trelleborg
May 21st
A reconstructed Viking house at Trelleborg, Denmark
Typical, I kill the autofeed because it’s overwhelming my own posts and say that I’ll pick just one photo a day. Then the glut of images going into Flickr comes to an abrupt halt. I’ve added the one above. I’m not very happy with it – it’s a video capture rather than a digital photo. I was experimenting at the time with different methods of recording images.
It’s a reconstruction of a Viking long house at the Trelleborg Museum in Denmark. It’s a slightly dated reconstruction as I recall. The wooden pillars around the outside of the house are probably wrong, if I remember correctly, but it’s broadly right.
The museum was exactly the sort of museum I like. Small. I get artefact fatigue after a while so I like small amounts of information with walks between them. There’s also a nice fort at the site and some earlier 1st millennium houses too, which may make an appearance if nothing better turns up on Flickr.
The museum probably has a website at: http://www.vikingeborg.dk/. I say probably as it’s down at the moment. However there is an article with one of the best titles ever written by the More >
Archaeology and the Occupied Territories
May 21st
I was going to post something on the AUT boycott of some Israeli universities alleged to be profiteering from the Occupation after reading about it in Crooked Timber, but I don’t need the headache. There’s also the issue that I don’t have much idea of the facts of the case, but that doesn’t seem to stop other people from talking on it.
Instead I’ll point to an extract of one of the best archaeology books I’ve read. Sacred Geography by Edward Fox (released under a variety of other titles too). It’s about the murder of Albert Glock, an American archaeologist, by someone with an Israeli Army gun. Fox paints a very claustrophobic picture of reasonable humans on both sides of the divide held hostage by extremists in their own communities. I’ve lent it to a few people and I think each one has come to a different conclusion over who killed Glock. The New Statesman has a review / article ‘Archaeology is not a Science, It’s a Vendetta’.
