Archaeologist sailing like a Viking makes unexpected discoveries: Vikings sailed farther away from Scandinavia, and took routes farther from land
Disabilities in the late Middle Ages: the skeleton of a man with a severe dislocated fracture of the knee, found in a cemetery in Lund, Sweden
Ancient DNA unlocks new understanding of migrations in the first millennium AD; a new study has been published in Nature
The Viking Faroe Islands colonizers were a group of male settlers from multiple Scandinavian populations, different from the Iceland colonizers
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
Museum collections targeted in the war on Ukrainian culture. A recent conference at Södertörn University’s Centre for Baltic and East European Studies brought together researchers and representatives
A new archive of ancient human brains, published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, challenges misconceptions of soft tissue preservation
Archaeologists analyze the carbon isotope values of hazelnuts from ancient Mesolithic and Neolithic sites in Sweden, to see what the local woods were like
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
