Never heard of Blankaholm, a small village on the Baltic coast of Sweden between Kalmar and Västervik?   Okay, I hadn't either.   But this weekend was the fourth annual Blankaholm conference on Swedish east coast archaeology.

Grassroots archaeology conferences certainly have a Science 2.0 feel to them and for that, Swedish archaeologist Dr. Martin Rundkvist gets to be a cool link for bringing it to everyone's attention.
Of the talks, I particularly enjoyed Kenneth Alexandersson's about Early Mesolithic sites with organic preservation under a metre of sand from a sea-level transgression, Ludvig Papmehl-Dufay's about Neolithic sites on Öland, S-G Broström's and Kenth Ihrestam's about the enormous and game-changing Casimirsborg rock-art finds they made last year