Follow the complex story of migrations in Europe during the first millennium, as Germanic and Viking ancestry spread across the continent. By Jack Knudson Back in the first millennium A.D., waves of human migration across Europe created an elaborate genetic puzzle that researchers have now started to unravel with a leap in DNA analysis. AnContinue reading “How Viking and Germanic DNA Spread Through the Iron Age Migrations”
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Viking Chess Pieces May Reveal Early Whale Hunts in Northern Europe
The board game hnefatafl, commonly called Viking chess, pits an attacking player against another trying to defend the king Amorina Kingdon, Hakai Magazine This article is from Hakai Magazine, an online publication about science and society in coastal ecosystems. Read more stories like this at hakaimagazine.com. In central and eastern Sweden from 550 to 793 CE, just beforeContinue reading “Viking Chess Pieces May Reveal Early Whale Hunts in Northern Europe”
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Metal Detectorists Discover 1,200-Year-Old Graves That May Have Belonged to High-Status Viking Women
Excavations in Norway revealed a rich variety of artifacts, including jewelry, textile tools and stones positioned in the shape of a ship By Sarah Kuta Archaeologists have unearthed coins, jewelry and stones from graves in Norway that likely belonged to high-status Viking women, reports Science Norway’s Ida Irene Bergstrøm. Initially discovered by a group of amateurContinue reading “Metal Detectorists Discover 1,200-Year-Old Graves That May Have Belonged to High-Status Viking Women”