The Ash Pendant was discovered in a Viking Age burial mound in Sweden and may have been used by a female shaman.

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German archaeologists discovered that the skulls of three medieval Viking women found on the Swedish island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea showed evidence of an unusual procedure to elongate their ...

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Vikings were much snappier dressers than thought, according to new evidence unearthed by a Swedish researcher. The men were especially vain while the women dressed provocatively, adorning themselves ...

Archaeology has a representation problem. For most of the time that scholars have been probing the human past, they have focused mainly on the activities of men to the exclusion of women. There are a ...

Jens Christian Moesgaard receives funding from Gunnar Ekströms Stiftelse, and formerly received funding from Le Studium, Orléans and the Danish Ministry of Culture. In the autumn of 2020, I was ...

Archeologists recently uncovered a massive cache of jewelry, silver coins, and other relics at ancient gravesites in western Norway. At least three of them appear to belong to a trio of highly ...