Palaeoproteomics identifies beaver fur in Danish high-status Viking Age burials - direct evidence of fur trade
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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0270040
Abstract: Fur is known from contemporary written sources to have been a key commodity in the Viking Age. Nevertheless, the fur trade has been notoriously difficult to study archaeologically as fur rarely survives in the archaeological… read more here.
Keywords: fur trade; viking age; fur; beaver fur ... See more keywords