“Archaeologists at the Museum of Archaeology at the University of Stavanger could hardly believe their eyes when dress accessories typical of a Viking Age woman was delivered to the museum.” The Department received a package from an anonymous sender containing several pieces from a grave burial: “The well-known Norwegian archaeologist Odmund Møllerop (1922-2006) was […]
(Go ahead, say that one ten times, fast!) Archeologists in Finland have discovered this amazing piece: “It was found perfectly preserved in a buried layer of peat near the town of Järvensuo, about 75 miles northwest of Helsinki, at a prehistoric wetland site that archaeologists think was occupied by Neolithic (late Stone Age) peoples 4,000 […]
A group of archeologists from the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology at Brown University have written a paper on their work at Surtshellir (“Surt’s Cave”) in Iceland. The paper is behind a paywall ($35.95 for 48 hours of access; not in this week’s budget, maybe next payday), but Live Science has a free article about it […]
Archeologist Ragnar L. Børsheim has created a short video reconstruction of “The Gausel Queen” grave, showing what the grave goods would have looked like, and mixed in the photos of the actual artifacts from the museum. From the summary: “Among the objects were oval brooches of giltet bronze an sliver, a third brooch of massive […]
Researchers from the National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen have reconstructed the clothing found in two of the most famous Viking Age graves in Denmark. The reconstructed garments from two graves dated to the 900s; a man’s grave from Bjerringhøj, Mammen, and a woman’s grave from Hvilehøj. Both we interred in large burial mounds on […]
