Volcanic eruption caused Neolithic people at Vasagård, on the Danish island Bornholm, to sacrifice unique “sun stones”
Ancient DNA unlocks new understanding of migrations in the first millennium AD; a new study has been published in Nature
New insights about Sagas and the literary tradition of Iceland can be found in ancient, reused parchments, written in Latin
Water and gruel – not bread: the diet of early Neolithic farmers at Frydenlund, Fuenen, in Scandinavia; the study in Vegetation History and Archaeobotany
The Viking Faroe Islands colonizers were a group of male settlers from multiple Scandinavian populations, different from the Iceland colonizers
A new study, published in the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, compared rates of violence in Viking Age Norway and Denmark societies
According to a new study, the plague may have been a contributing factor to the population collapse in the end of the Neolithic, known as the Neolithic decline, in Scandinavia and the rest of Europe
In 1274, King Magnus VI, the Law Mender, united the entire Norwegian kingdom under one common law: the Code of the Realm
Vittrup Man crossed over from forager to farmer before being sacrificed in Denmark: DNA, isotope, protein analysis reveal genetic ancestry and migration of a human found in a peat bog
A new study shows, among other things, that there have been two almost total population turnovers in Denmark over the past 7,300 years
