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My friend Howard Williams of the University of Exeter touched down at Arlanda airport in Sweden a couple of hours ago. He's here for a few weeks of study and also giving talks at four archaeology departments. Good stuff for all friends of the Dark Ages!
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In a comment at the end of the Religion and Science post, Brandon of Siris mentions Peter King as a source for discussions of Anselm's ontological argument.

Good work making women in archaeology less invisible.
The part about thinking phoenicians kick-started the bronze age in northern Europe is fairly typical for the era with the assumptions that "barbarians" would be incapable of innovation and organisation.
BTW also interesting that they credited phoenicians with this, considering the racist beliefs of the time. Conflict between two stereotypes. "Barbarians= stupid". "Brown people = stupid". The first stereotype won out.

By BirgerJohansson (not verified) on 18 Jan 2015 #permalink

Phoenicians: Sven Nilsson probably didn't think Stone Age Scandies were stupid. But he knew that in the absence of tin ore, Scandies could not have invented bronze metallurgy. He believed that each new period was brought on by invaders. After all it was amply documented that the arrival of Greeks, Romans and Normans to various parts of Europe had changed the culture there.