De-Lurk

I chase penguins and read sushi.

Braaaack.
:) Interesting bloggything you got yourself right here! >.>

"please comment away"

I am glad you wrote exactly those words. I work as a technical communicator and maintain the company writing style guide. Under the heading C, I have written the following entry:

Comment out
Write: Comment out
Do not write: Comment away
Comment: Swedish kommentera bort is comment out in English. Comment away
would rather mean something like Go ahead, comment as much as you wish!

I want a Johan Anglemark Seal of Approval badge to put in my left-hand side bar! (-;

I'm an American art historian (early middle ages, primarily architecture and its decoration). I found Aardvarchaeology through a google.news link and bookmarked at once!

I link to specific stories from my blog at least occasionally and have a blogroll link.

Well, I've been visiting yer blog since the days before you were with Science Blogs. I don't always have a lot to say because you generally say it so sufficiently to leave my poor comments superfluous.

Aging tech-support geek in Illinois. Use RSS to scan, always check yours. If article is interesting (usually the case with yours) I always click through. But not a frequent commenter.

Podblack is right, I also love penguins.

I'm an instructional technology administrator at a American midwestern University. It's certainly interesting to get the Nordic view of issues. Comments just don't seem to pop into my brain.

I'm a blogger and woodworker in Hannibal, Missouri. I comment here from time to time. I'm half Swedish and I enjoy hearing Martin's Scandinavian tales.

I dig stuff up and knit

God dag från New York.

Since you write the blog in English, it seemed only polite to at least say hello in Swedish... at least, that's what I think I did. I suppose it's just as possible that I stated an intention to fondle your vitamin C. So I'll fall back on, "It's the thought that counts."

I study 16th century swordplay.

[delurk]Hello.[/delurk]

I'm an amateur science writer and 3D buff. Tend to read all over. So I stop in here once in awhile. Plus I find about stuff in Sweden. I think I delurked last time.

Whee look I delurked! P.S. I read your entries more than I visit due to the magic of RSS aggregation . . . just so you know.

Iâm still lurking & blogging though I changed location; now days from Norrbotten and another archaeology temp job at a county administrative board. Keep up the good work.

Iâm not quite a lurker, since Iâve made a very few comments here. Maybe I should say that I spent a year in Denmark almost 35 years ago, gave myself a vacation week in Stockholm, and the most magical day of all that year was spent in Visby, and in a couple of hours wandering through Gotlands Fornsal. What a fabulous little museum!

Muddle-aged graduate botanist here, longtime armchair archaeologist, now a part-time medieval historian and part-time graphic designer. Curious about everything; it just took me till I was in my mid-40s to discover my *real* passion (medieval history). ;)

You asked for comments but I'm not sure that you will appreciate this one. Anyway, here goes.

I look to your blog for snippets concerning archaeology and skepticism; not for details of your daily life, however interesting it ought to be. When you discuss archaeology and its environment you are probably one of the best blogs around in that field, but please, less of the 'dear diary'.

I sequence DNA, quilt, knit, and read your blog almost every day

West of Ireland consultant, regular RSS reader. Great blog, btw.

Hello from a rss-reading fan in Toronto, Canada.

I'm a researcher in computational neuroscience and robotics, originally from Sweden but working in Osaka, Japan. Martin's blog is one way I try to keep in touch with my home country; also, it's fun to read about life as a researcher in a very different field.

I'm an archaeology graduate student working for the historical commission in Massachusetts. Although I know very little about Swedish history, I enjoy reading about archaeology around the world. Good archaeology blogs, such as yours, are few and far between.

I don't care what you say. I say ABBA rules!

I like the "dear diary" stuff ... I am intrigued by how your work and family lives intersect. I also like the music posts.

Heathen Humanist from the United States. You're in my blogroll. I was an exchange student in Linköping many years ago so I especially enjoy reading about your work in that area.

My one attempt at de-lurking so far resulted in me spoiling the scoop on the "Scrotum Torment" story, so I guess I better keep staying hidden.

I'm a technical writer (my business card says, in line with company policy and slightly pretentiously imo, "Information Engineer") and a fellow VoF member from the Swedish west coast.

I read Aard several times a week, from at least two different IP addresses.

Oh, and I should say that I majored in history back in university, plus I studied journalism and worked as a journalist for a few years. I guess reading blogs about old times comes naturally to me. How I ended up as a technical writer with that background is another story...

Fellow archaeologist and blogger here.
Some interesting(?) tidbits about me: I always have and always will be obsessed with comics - American, Belgian, Swedish, Japanese, bring it on. I feel Fantasy is superior to Sci-Fi in books, but the opposite is usually true when it comes to movies or TV. I have no idea why that is.

I love my chosen profession, but sometimes regret I never became the chef I dreamt I would be when I was young. Perhaps I was influenced by the Swedish Chef on the Muppets show...

Thanks for all your kind words!

As for the archaeology vs. "dear diary" content, the blog is actually all "dear diary". This means that when I am working with or reading about archaeology and thinking about that, then I blog about archaeology. I'm afraid that it would be hard for me to write exclusively about it and still a) be interesting, b) have fun blogging.

To catch up with the archaeology content here and filter out other stuff, please use the archive and the archaeology tag.

Hi.

This is one of the Science Blogs that I pop in and out of on the job, instead of working. I followed a link here from another of the SBs, don't recall which. I'm pretty sure I've never commented here before, though I wouldn't want to bet my own money on it.

I like archaeology, sciences in general (though physics can be hard going), penguins (to go with a recurring theme in this comment thread), and cats. I don't recall seeing any cat posts here, but the year is still young. :)

Oh, and I'm in Springfield, Missouri. USA.

I'm a graduate student in ancient history and archaeology with an MA in anthropology. I stumbled on the blog through a link of a link of a link a few months ago and have been enjoying it immensely. I generally check out the blog via RSS when I'm supposed to be studying for my doctoral exams; I don't feel so guilty coming here since I generally learn something new and can justify my actions in that manner :)

Can't recall why I'm here half the time... probably for a nostalgic taste of my Scandinavian homeland (area?) when I'm most of a planet away.

Oh, and your stuff on Archeology and the business of Archeology is neat. Like that even though my studies never touched on it.

Hmm... out of curiosity, I saw some stuff on human sacrifice coming out of a dig site in Denmark recently, I was curious if you could summarize it better than my local newspaper can and/or say something about the credibility of those finds. National newspapers aren't exactly known for reporting all that well on these things.

I am a self-described "life enthusiast" in Oregon. I love science, history, languages, art and fashion. I have a blog called "Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite" where I describe what catches my fancy.
I really enjoy "Aardvarcheology" and recommend it to my friends!

i have been a lurker here for quite awhile. found your blog via another of the SB sites, but for the life of me i couldn't tell you whose.

interestingly, i saw a familiar name in the comments and checked his link. avenel is a friend of mine from long ago in a galaxy far away from where i now reside. tis a very small world, indeed.

RSM, human sacrifice in the context of elite burial is very well attested among Scandinavians in the later 1st Millennium, both through archaeology and at least one written source. Another example of this date from Denmark would be uncontroversial. What they did was basically to use slaves as grave goods in the same manner that they would kill horses and dogs at funerals.

Musician and music teacher in SoCal. Came to Aardvarkeology via Pharyngula and stayed for the archaeology, the book mentions, and just general Dr. R's opinions and blather, which are kinda ... readable, IMNotAtAllHO.

Software developer from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

I'm a dual US/UK citizen living near Aberdeen, Scotland. I am a computer geek struggling to finish a MSc in bioinformatics while working a full-time-and-then-some day job as a sysadmin with a bit of programming thrown in. I am currently doing three people's work (not hyperbole, we are very short of people in our department) so it really is a struggle, and I've had to cut back a LOT on my internet read-and-comment time.

I love things old, but prefer to comment on things I know something about - or naughtiness I feel the need to defend:) Because I am evile, very, very evile.

And I just started back to school. Just managed my first week of school for the first time since dropping out of high school sixteen years ago. My major frustration being that I didn't pile about twice the credits on. So it goes. Soon enough I'll get my undergrad in psych and really get started on the education.......

Just a deluded lurker.
Varied interests from politics to science to history to....

the ends of the universe.

Some day I won't learn something new.
Heart won't be beating and the mind will have been stopped.

Did I mention humor(Humour for the English speakers)?