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New Archaeological Method Finds Children Were Skilled Ceramists During the Bronze Age
... presented in a new thesis from Lund University in Sweden. The thesis explores how an artisanal perspective can ... around the Birth of Christ -- the first documented find in Sweden of an artists' material that is made, fired and shaped ...
ancient-origins - 12/05/2016 - 14:40
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Debate continues over whether Stone Age people were peaceful or warlike
... UNESCO world heritage site in Tanumshede, western Sweden, depicts fighting with weapons. War became much more ...
Mark Miller - 19/04/2015 - 00:44
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Cartographic Comedy in the 16th century: The Fool’s Cap Map of the World
... ‘The Laughing Jester’ 15th Century. Art museum of Sweden, Stockholm ( Public Domain ) Next, one may consider ...
dhwty - 19/04/2017 - 13:56
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How to Invent a Tolkien-Style Language: Ancient Languages Inspire Modern Movies
... Speaker Elfdalian, the Ancient Viking Forest Language of Sweden, Set to be Revived JRR Tolkien recites the Quenya poem ...
ancient-origins - 18/03/2018 - 12:55
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The Strange Death and Afterlife of King Edmund Part 1: The Unfortunate Friendship With Ragnor Lodbrok that Led to Edmund’s Beheading
... A section from the Stora Hammars I stone from Gotland, Sweden. The illustration depicts a blood eagle execution. ( ...
Charles Christian - 21/09/2017 - 18:49
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How Arabian Script Infiltrated the Runes of Ancient Germany
... Bugge. The Rök Runestone (Ög 136), located in Rök, Sweden features a Younger Futhark runic inscription that ... CC BY-SA 3.0 ) “The oldest known runic inscription from Sweden is found on a spearhead, recovered from a grave at Mos ... to the end of the third century of our era.” Gotland is Sweden’s largest island and is located off the east coast ...
Robert W. Lebling - 26/04/2024 - 23:00
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Successfully Dating a Mummy Just Got Easier. New Testing Revealed
... study their personal history. Picture stone from Gotland, Sweden (8th to 9th centuries) showing a woman offering a ...
Dr. Eran Elhaik - 23/08/2022 - 14:49
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Mammoth DNA Breaks Record for World’s Oldest Sequence
... researchers at the Centre for Palaeogenetics in Stockholm, Sweden had advanced sequencing technology and bioinformatics ... and a bioinformatician at the University of Uppsala in Sweden, explains the researchers’ shock at this discovery: ...
Alicia McDermott - 19/02/2021 - 00:34
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The Exceptional Story of the Kovel Spearhead, Who Made it and Where is it Today?
... In this map the possible Herulian homeland is in Southern Sweden. ( CC BY-SA 3.0 ) The origin of the name ‘Herules’ ...
Theodoros Karasavvas - 31/01/2017 - 20:03
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Neolithic farmers assimilated local hunter-gatherers
... as well as early farmers. Ove och Evy Persson at Ajvide in Sweden. The skeleton is a young woman dated to 2700 BC. ...
aprilholloway - 26/04/2014 - 22:47
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Ancient Chinese Coin Swords: Demon Fighting Weapons of the East
... era cash coins on display at the Museum of Ethnography, Sweden. (Etnografiska Museet / CC BY 2.5 ) Coin Swords: ...
Lex Leigh - 25/12/2022 - 17:32
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Harald Bluetooth’s “Probable” Burial Mound Scanned By Satellites
... handed her teacher a small golden disc that was brought to Sweden by her Polish grandmother. The so-called Curmsun Disc ... a wedding gift during Harald Bluetooth's second marriage. Sweden’s Enigmatic Golden Curmsun Disc Did Charlemagne Pay ...
ashley cowie - 30/06/2022 - 23:00
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Digging the Deep Blue: Challenges and Triumphs in Underwater Archaeology
... the Dalarö wreck of a 17th century ship off the coast of Sweden . (SMTM - Ingemar Lundgren - Ocean Discovery / CC ...
Aleksa Vučković - 25/04/2023 - 14:58
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Vikings Didn’t Just Murder Monks and Pillage Monasteries – They Helped Spread Christianity Too
... royal Scandinavian saints would follow, notably Erik of Sweden and Knud the Holy of Denmark. The Norse earldom of ... cross from the Viking Age. Found in Uppåkra, near Lund, Sweden ( CC by SA 3.0 ) Scandinavians also joined the ...
ancient-origins - 30/12/2019 - 23:03
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Futhark: Mysterious Ancient Runic Alphabet of Northern Europe
... been found with approximately 2,500 of these coming from Sweden. Many date from the 800's to the 1000's, during the ... long-branch (Danish). It was the main alphabet in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark throughout the Viking Age , and largely ...
Bryan Hill - 29/08/2019 - 19:11
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Tooth from prehistoric woman reveals life and times of Peking Man
... of boxes at the Museum of Evolution at Uppsala University, Sweden, scientists were able to identify it as part of a ... in the scientific world, and were shipped from China to Sweden for further examination. The collection was huge and ...
lizleafloor - 13/03/2015 - 22:15
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England’s Viking Cuerdale Hoard Is The Second Biggest Of Them All!
... it is second only to the Spillings Hoard found on Gotland, Sweden in 1999 (weighing 67 kilograms or 147 pounds). ... origin. Finders of Killingholme Treasure Hoard Make a Mint Sweden’s Coronavirus Knights Battle COVID-19 at Gotland ...
dhwty - 15/10/2021 - 14:58
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New Symbolism Noticed on Denmark’s “Sun Stones”
... Larsson, professor emeritus at the University of Lund in Sweden, says as Science Nordic reports . Several examples of ...
Theodoros Karasavvas - 20/12/2017 - 23:01
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Burning, Pillaging, and Carving up the Lands: Viking Raids into England - Part II
... the Danegeld. The runestone U 241 in Lingsberg, Uppland, Sweden, was raised by the grandchildren of Ulfríkr circa ...
Cam Rea - 01/12/2017 - 14:30
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Heimdall, Watchman of the Gods, Will Sound the Horn as Ragnarok Approaches
... The Royal Mounds of Gamla Uppsala, Ancient Pagan Site of Sweden Heimdallr brings forth gifts of the gods to the humans ...
dhwty - 09/04/2018 - 23:03