The Beginning of the Viking Age in the West
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DOI: 10.1007/s11457-018-9221-3
Abstract: During the Viking Age, Arctic Scandinavia was a source of exquisite furs, down, walrus ivory, and other commodities that met with high demand in England and on the Continent. Hitherto, the earliest firm evidence of… read more here.
Keywords: beginning viking; archaeology; age west; age ... See more keywords
Symbols missing a cause: the testimony of touchstones from Viking Age Iceland
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DOI: 10.1007/s12520-018-0764-x
Abstract: From the Early Bronze Age, tools used to determine the nature and value of precious metal have been used as traditional symbols in burial rituals. During the Early Medieval Period, balances, weights and touchstones became… read more here.
Keywords: iceland; age; touchstones viking; symbols missing ... See more keywords
A multi-proxy geochemical and micromorphological study of the use of space and stratigraphy of a Viking-age house in Ribe, Denmark
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DOI: 10.1007/s12520-024-01962-1
Abstract: High-definition approaches are currently revolutionizing our understanding of the archaeology of urban archives. Multi-proxy studies at a high spatial resolution offer especially an opportunity to capture their high data potential. Here we present a study… read more here.
Keywords: multi proxy; viking age; stratigraphy; study ... See more keywords
Kerbing Relations through Time: Reuse, Connectivity and Folded Time in the Viking Age
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DOI: 10.1017/s0959774321000445
Abstract: The paper explores a group of graves in which the past was used actively in Viking Age eastern Norway. Studying the use of the past in the past was introduced in British landscape archaeology of… read more here.
Keywords: archaeology; kerbing relations; relations time; viking age ... See more keywords
Exploring materiality and sensory experience through Viking Age reenactment
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DOI: 10.1080/1751696x.2024.2354831
Abstract: ABSTRACT Sensory archaeology explores how past individuals engaged with their world through all their senses. The use of senses is also a cornerstone in Viking Age reenactment. We argue that research on Viking Age material… read more here.
Keywords: age; viking age; archaeology; age reenactment ... See more keywords
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