Archaeologist sailing like a Viking makes unexpected discoveries: Vikings sailed farther away from Scandinavia, and took routes farther from land
New clues from old bones: some Vikings were much more violent than others, according to a study in the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology
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
