For centuries, archaeologists have interpreted shared graves in medieval cemeteries as evidence of close family relationships. When an adult and a child were discovered buried together, it was ...

Also available as an ebook. ANTH copy Purchased from the Jean Axelrod Acquisitions Endowment. "Although occupied only relatively briefly in the long span of world prehistory, Scandinavia is an ...

In southern Scandinavia during the Bronze Age, carved footprints on coastal rocks may have been part of how people marked personal bonds. Researchers have said the engravings could have been used to ...

Three pieces of prehistoric chewing gum shed light on the diet and diseases of ancient Scandinavian people. Photo from Stockholm University Researchers recently spent some time chewing over ...