The Vikings invaded England in the 9th and 10th centuries. They plundered, raped and burned towns to the ground. Or at least, this is the story we know from school and popular culture.
Archaeology
Dec 18, 2018
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If you want to know anything about the Viking Age, Ribe, in west Denmark, is the place to go.
Archaeology
Sep 13, 2018
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Popular culture portrays Vikings as violent marauders who raided the coasts of Europe with impunity, but new research indicates the Vikings were vulnerable to at least one threat: a changing climate.
Archaeology
Aug 28, 2018
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Insect remains have their own tale to tell in the mystery that surrounds the Øsknes Viking burial boat, as Eva Pangiotakopulu and colleagues investigate in their recent PLOS ONE study.
Archaeology
Aug 23, 2018
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Odense, birth place of Hans Christian Andersen, is at least 100 years older than previously thought, say two Danish archaeologists.
Archaeology
Jul 24, 2018
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Green is the colour of hope, white symbolises surrender or innocence, and black binds the living to the dead.
Archaeology
Jun 19, 2018
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In a study published today, scientists at deCODE Genetics report new findings about the founding of the Icelandic population, and its subsequent evolution, based on ancient DNA. The study appears today in the online edition ...
Archaeology
May 31, 2018
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A pair of researchers with ELTE Eötvös Loránd University in Hungary has run computer simulations that suggest that tales of Vikings using a sunstone to navigate in cloudy weather might be true. In their paper published ...
Not too many people are able to identify birds by examining a single feather. But a number of folks need to know that sort of thing, and it can actually save lives.
Plants & Animals
Feb 27, 2018
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A team of archaeologists, led by Cat Jarman from the University of Bristol's Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, has discovered that a mass grave uncovered in the 1980s dates to the Viking Age and may have been a ...
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