The houses date back between A.D. 500 and A.D. 950 to the Iron and Viking Ages. They were uncovered ... built in A.D. 450 to 600 during the Iron Age, which was when cremation was used as the ...

Commemorating Dwelling: The Death and Burial of Houses in Iron and Viking Age Scandinavia, European Journal of Archaeology (2016). DOI: 10.1080/14619571.2016.1186918 ...

It later transformed into a high-status Viking settlement and cemetery. The Gjellestad site is the home of the Jell Mound—one of the largest Iron Age burial grounds in Scandinavia. A landowner ...

Archaeologists have discovered delicate blue glass and amber beads at the site of a former early Viking settlement in the middle of Norway's Ørland peninsula. The Iron Age site reveals how the ...

Meeting with curators, craftspeople, engineers and educators from the museum, the students learned about emerging Iron Age and Viking ... a host of Viking ships. “[The course] wasn’t about Vikings as ...

Powerful figures from the late Iron Age through to the end of the Vikings were drawn to a sandy plain on South Uist, according to archaeologists. Bornais, on the west side of the island ...

The reality was far more exciting: In an astounding bit of beginner’s luck, Schytz had stumbled across no fewer than 22 pieces of gold treasure from the Iron Age ... the Viking era, has been ...

One hundred years later, one of his students, J. J. A. Worsaae, placed the Viking Age in between the Iron Age and the Middle Ages. The Viking Age however, was not a methodical tool, but an ...

Back in the first millennium A.D., waves of human migration across Europe created an elaborate genetic puzzle that researchers have now started to unravel with a leap in DNA analysis. An enhanced look ...

A scattering of rivets found in a field in Norway could be evidence of a Viking Age ship burial ... Here’s how it works. Dozens of iron rivets scattered around a farmer's field in Norway ...