Saturday, 23 March 2013

Online Viking Course

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Vikings: Raiders, Traders and Settlers University of Oxford  Online and Distance Learning 8 May to 21 July 2013 Ravagers, despoile...

Pre-Viking tunic found by glacier as warming aids archaeology

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A pre-Viking woollen tunic found beside a thawing glacier in south Norway shows how global warming is proving something of a boon for arc...

Stone Ships Show Signs of Maritime Network in Baltic Sea Region 3,000 Years Ago

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 In the middle of the Bronze Age, around 1000 BC, the amount of metal objects increased dramatically in the Baltic Sea region. Around th...
Friday, 8 March 2013

First evidence of Viking-like 'sunstone' pulled from shipwreck

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Researchers say this crystal found at the Alderney shipwreck near the Channel Islands could prove that fabled Viking sunstones really di...
Thursday, 7 March 2013

'Viking sunstone' found in shipwreck

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A clear view of the Sun was not necessary for Vikings to navigate, scientists believe A crystal found in a shipwreck could be simila...

ScienceShot: Sunstone Unearthed From Shipwreck

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In 1592, a British ship sank near the island of Alderney in the English Channel carrying an odd piece of cargo: a small, angular crystal...

Some DNA ancestry services akin to 'genetic astrology'

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Some customers want to find Viking ancestry, but almost every Briton has some, say researchers Scientists have described some service...
Monday, 4 March 2013

Flight of the valkyrie: the Viking figurine that's heading for Britain

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Four views of the valkyrie, the only 3D depiction from the Viking era known to exist  Photograph: Asger Kjærgaard/Odense Bys Museer ...
Sunday, 3 March 2013

‘Vikings’ Sheds Light On Dark Ages

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This Image Released By History Shows Travis Fimmel As Ragnar (Center), In A Scene From ‘Vikings’, Premiering On March 3 On History. (AP...
Monday, 25 February 2013

Exhibition preview: Capital of the North, Yorkshire Museum, York

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© Gareth Buddo " From the fifth century, for 1,000 years, York was the northern city,” says Natalie McCaul, the curator of archae...

To claim someone has 'Viking ancestors' is no better than astrology

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Last week we were told that Eddie Izzard is a Viking descendant on his mother's side and an Anglo-Saxon on his father's. Photogr...
Wednesday, 20 February 2013

GUERRILLA WARFARE IN THE NORWEGIAN IRON AGE

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Bygdeborg Mur, Fylke: Østfold. Image:  Kulturminnesøk R esearcher Ingrid Ystgaard  from the Norwegian University of Science and Techno...
Monday, 18 February 2013

ARCHI The Archaeological Sites Index

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ARCHI, the online searchable archaeological database, has added a new feature that allows users to add sites to their world-wide datab...
Sunday, 17 February 2013

Archaeology Summer Courses at Oxford

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The Oxford Experience is offering a number of archaeology courses this summer. Each course lasts for one week and participants sta...
Saturday, 16 February 2013

EMAS Easter Study Tour to Yorkshire

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There are still a few places available on the Easter archaeological study tour to Yorkshire. The Study Tour is organized by EMAS, the ...
Friday, 15 February 2013

Secrets of York’s Viking heritage to be unveiled at festival

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Vicky Harrison, collections manager at York Minster, with the Horn of Ulf, a ceremonial drinking horn Secrets of York’s Viking herit...
Friday, 8 February 2013

Remarkable new finds below York Minster

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ARCHAEOLOGISTS have found evidence of a previously-unknown settlement below York Minster, dating back more than 1,000 years. Exper...

York Minster finds shed light on post-Roman period

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The rare Anglo-Saxon coin found at the minster shows that the city had its own mint [Credit: Maev Kennedy/Guardian] The recent excavati...
Monday, 4 February 2013

FAROE ISLANDS BEFORE THE VIKINGS: NEW EVIDENCE

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Kevin Edwards, Professor of Physical Geography, collecting samples for analysis on the Faroe Islands.  Image: University of Aberdeen O...
Monday, 28 January 2013

Sealing Norse Greenlanders’ fate?

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The mystery of what happened to Greenland’s Norse population is one step closer to being solved, as new evidence suggests that the colo...
Sunday, 27 January 2013

Living conditions and indoor air quality in a reconstructed Viking house

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Jannie Marie Christensen  & Morten Ryhl-Svendsen  How harmful to a person’s health were the indoor conditions in Danish Viking Age...

Where were the Viking brew houses?

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Graham Dineley, craft brewer & Merryn Dineley, independent researcher We have been studying traditional malting and beer brewing te...
Wednesday, 16 January 2013

Report: Vikings ‘abandoned Greenland due to loneliness and limited foods’

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Researchers have a new theory on why the Vikings ultimately decided to abandon Greenland after five centuries. The news comes via a report...
Monday, 14 January 2013

Death, Narrative and Understanding the Viking Mind

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We think we understand the Vikings and their ways as a culture of warriors and pirates. The Vikings plagued the coast of early medieva...
Sunday, 13 January 2013

Dig will root out secrets of Viking past

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A two-mile stretch of land between Arrochar and Tarbet could hold vital clues to the Vikings' occupation of Scotland.  An archa...
Friday, 11 January 2013

Archaeologists Find Clues to Viking Mystery

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Until now, many experts had assumed that the cooling of the climate and the resulting crop failures and famines had ushered in the end o...

Don’t underestimate Viking women

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The viking women were powerful. (Drawing: Erik Werenskiold) The status of Viking women may be underestimated due to the way we interpr...

Rebirth of the Viking warship that may have helped Canute conquer the seas

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Timbers of Roskilde 6 Viking warship being fitted into the steel frame for display in Copenhagen  and at the British Museum. ...
Tuesday, 18 December 2012

Greenland’s Viking settlers gorged on seals

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The findings challenge the prevailing view of the Norse as farmers that would have stubbornly stuck to agriculture until they lost the b...

Norwegian Vikings grew hemp

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Remnants of the Iron Age Sosteli farm in Vest-Agder County, Norway's southernmost. Hemp was cultivated here even before the Viking A...
Sunday, 16 December 2012

University of Oxford Online Courses in Archaeology

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Now is the time to enrol for Hilary term online courses in Archaeology. Each courses lasts for 10 weeks, with the expectation of ...

The last battle of the Vikings

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The Battle of Largs was the last time a Norwegian military force attacked Scotland   It was the battle which...
Monday, 3 December 2012

Helmets, Viking gold and Royal boars: Portable Antiquities Scheme releases 2011 report

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Nearly 100,000 archaeological discoveries – ranging from Roman helmets to Viking gold – were made during 2011, according to the annual...
Saturday, 24 November 2012

Ottawa researcher’s firing derails Viking project

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This should be the best of times for Pat Sutherland. November’s issue of National Geographic magazine and a documentary airing Thursday...
Tuesday, 20 November 2012

How Vikings killed time

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The Vikings played ball, lifted stones and wrestled. Often the games turned violent and bloody, occasionally resulting in death. When...

Greenland's viking settlers gorged on seals

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Archaeologists dig up skeletons of Norse settlers  in 2010 at the Norse farm Ø64,  Igaliku Fjord,  Østerbygden, Greenland. Photo: Jette...