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A Female Viking Warrior? DNA Evidence Says “Yes”.

September 18, 2018

When Viking grave Bj 581 was discovered in the 19th century, at the former Viking town of Birka, Sweden, the remains it contained were automatically assumed to be those of a man. This person had been buried with all the trappings of a high status professional Viking warrior, including an axe, a sword, a spear, a … More A Female Viking Warrior? DNA Evidence Says “Yes”.

The First Humans in Britain: A Journey through Time

August 23, 2017

The first anatomically modern humans set foot in Britain between 44,200 and 36,400 years ago*, likely during a brief warm spell during the Upper Palaeolithic. The two oldest modern human remains in Britain derive from Kents Cavern in Devon (fragment of an upper jaw, dated to 44,200 – 41,500 BP in 2011 in a study … More The First Humans in Britain: A Journey through Time

Bronze Age Battle at the River

March 6, 2017

In the 13th century BC, the banks of the river Tollense near the Baltic coast in north-eastern Germany (Fig.1) witnessed a battle of a scale previously undocumented for any region north of the Alps in prehistoric Europe – and perhaps the earliest of this scale so far discovered anywhere in Europe. The area surrounding the … More Bronze Age Battle at the River

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