A new study based on 297 ancient Scandinavian genomes analysed together with the genomic data of 16,638 present day Scandinavians resolve the complex relations between geography, ancestry, and gene ...

Also available as an ebook. ANTH copy Purchased from the Jean Axelrod Acquisitions Endowment. "Although occupied only relatively briefly in the long span of world prehistory, Scandinavia is an ...

A new study is shedding light on the violent history of Scandinavia which saw multiple waves of mass murder across Denmark in just a thousand years. A team of international researchers analyzed DNA ...

Researchers say that the Viking Age left an imprint on the genetics of present-day Scandinavians. In an international study published Thursday in the journal Cell, scientists found that DNA from ...

During the Viking Age, from 750 to 1050 C.E., Scandinavians were on the move. The seafaring Vikings were the first people to reach four different continents, visiting Europe, Asia, Africa and North ...

A piece of chewed birch bark tar gum unearthed in western Sweden has unlocked a window into ancient life, revealing the oldest known human DNA in the region. First excavated in the early 1990s from ...

When an ancient ship was unearthed in Scandinavia over 100 years ago, archaeologists started to uncover bits and pieces of its history. On board the plank-built vessel was a hoard of weapons — swords, ...