A new interpretation of the runic inscription on the Forsa Ring, provides fresh insights into the Viking Age monetary system
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
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
The first analysis results now confirm that the dolmen in Tiarp is one of the oldest stone burial chambers in Sweden
What did people eat in Mesolithic Scandinavia? A new study of the DNA in a chewing gum shows that deer, trout and hazelnuts were on the diet
Herlaugshaugen burial, in mid-Norway, shows Scandinavia’s oldest known ship burial; the mound was constructed during the Merovingian period
Early whaling, before the 19th century, was enough for at least two species to disappear completely from European waters
The geochemistry of copper artefacts reveals changes in distribution networks across prehistoric Europe, according to a study published in PLoS ONE
Runes were just as advanced as Roman alphabet writing: Johan Bollaert has investigated written language used in public inscriptions in Norway from the 1100s to the 1500s
