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 ...

A new study is shedding light on the violent history of Scandinavia which saw multiple waves of mass murder across Denmark in just a thousand years. A team of international researchers analyzed DNA ...

A piece of chewed birch bark tar gum unearthed in western Sweden has unlocked a window into ancient life, revealing the oldest known human DNA in the region. First excavated in the early 1990s from ...

Some 9,700 years ago on an autumn day, a group of people were camping on the west coast of Scandinavia. They were hunter-gatherers that had been fishing, hunting and collecting resources in the area.

Gad Rausing Associate Professor of Viking Age Archaeology, University of Oxford In the archaeology galleries of the Yorkshire Museum, an incredible Viking silver neck-ring takes centre stage. The ring ...