The Viking Faroe Islands colonizers were a group of male settlers from multiple Scandinavian populations, different from the Iceland colonizers
Harvests, wildfires, epidemics: How the jet stream has shaped extreme weather in Europe for centuries; a study published in Nature
John Stone has found the request for two copies of Shakespeare’s Othello to be sent to Lisbon, Portugal, in 1765
What Bronze Age teeth say about the evolution of the human diet: scientists extract microbiomes from two 4,000 year old teeth at Killuragh Cave
Ethical challenges of studying historical DNA that connects living people to enslaved and free African Americans at Catoctin Furnace, an early ironworks (18th–19th century)
Analysis of Bronze Age daggers has shown that they were used for processing animal carcasses and not as non-functional symbols of identity and status, as previously thought
The exquisite pen of Anne Enright, one of the most talented Irish writers, strikes again thanks to her latest literary enterprise, the novel…
A new study, published in PNAS, discovered kin relationships among Stone Age individuals buried in megalith tombs on Ireland and in Sweden
