Geography has made shipbuilding and seafaring essential for the Scandinaviansthroughout
history. In a landscape where the waterways offered much more ready communication lines …

The maritime expansion of Scandinavian populations during the Viking Age (about ad 750–1050)
was a far-flung transformation in world history 1, 2. Here we sequenced the genomes …

Not the least of the unusual revelations that have come from the wonderfully preserved ninth-century
Norwegian ship burials at Oseberg and Gokstad, is the fact that both had been later …

INTRODUCTION Variola virus (VARV), the causative agent of smallpox, is estimated to
have killed between 300 million and 500 million people in the 20​th century and was …

The medieval Norsemen or Vikings had an important biological and cultural impact on many
parts of Europe through raids, colonization and trade, from about AD 793 to 1066. To help …

The paper describes an evaluation of the applicability of computer tomography in
archaeological dendrochronology. Two different computer tomographs were tested, a Siemens …

Heimdalsjordet a new trade and production site from the Viking Age was partly excavated in
2012 and 2013. It is situated in a valley at what was in the Viking Age a well-hidden natural …

Specific soil micromorphological, broader geoarchaeological and environmental archaeology
signatures of settlement activities and land use have been identified from numerous case …

The use of apotropaic practices, that is, of magic to protect against evil, is sometimes
included in archaeological interpretations on the basis of similarities between archaeological …

Investigations of past coastal landscape development have included soil micromorphology,
chemistry and microfossil recording of soils and sediments associated with marine …