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Latest* #Viking DNA news! New research out in Nature today - here's what's exciting and what I have a problem with.👇
Does it change our view of the Vikings? No.
Are there some very cool data? Yes
Are there some *big* problems? Also Yes.
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(see nature.com/nature/podcast)
Does it change our view of the Vikings? No.
Are there some very cool data? Yes
Are there some *big* problems? Also Yes.
/1
(see nature.com/nature/podcast)
*new as in the full, peer-reviewed version of the pre-print article released last year
🧬New evidence of 'substantial' geneflow INTO Scandinavia, incl. from southern (!) Europe & also Britain. We suspected this, but great to see more conclusive evidence AND from regions we previously didn't know about
(...links nicely to my #RiverKings, more on that soon😉) /2
(...links nicely to my #RiverKings, more on that soon😉) /2
Exciting new boat discovery in Norway! This time, an almost perfectly preserved LOG BOAT. Why is this exciting? And does it relate to the Vikings? Repton? And the Silk Roads? Maybe.... bear with me: #riverkings /1
Photos: Leon Arne Kleiva via Facebook/Arkeologi i Norge
Photos: Leon Arne Kleiva via Facebook/Arkeologi i Norge
This boat was found a few days ago on a farm in southern Norway, at the edge of a lake. We don't know the age yet, could be ~2000 to 500 years old, maybe older. BUT the farmer's great-grandad found two log boats there in 1932, both dated to the Viking Age or just before /2
A few other logboats dating to the Viking Age have been found elsewhere in lakes and bogs, and very occasionally, in graves.
Some more info by Frans-Arne H. Stylegar in Norwegian on log boats here:
arkeologi.blogspot.com/2007/09/datert… /3
Some more info by Frans-Arne H. Stylegar in Norwegian on log boats here:
arkeologi.blogspot.com/2007/09/datert… /3
