Science, Social Sciences, Archaeology, Periods And Cultures, Medieval: Viking the archaeological record of tenth century scandinavia. the Viking civilization in greenland and Iceland Anglia, writes Andrew Rogerson in British archaeology. http://www.combose.com/Science/Social_Sciences/Archaeology/Periods_and_Cultures/
Extractions: Top Science Social Sciences Archaeology ... Ingstad, Helge Related links of interest: Society:History:By Time Period:Middle Ages:Vikings Birka and Hovg¥rden - UNESCO describes this archaeological complex which illustrates the elaborate trading networks of Viking-Age Europe. Borg Viking Museum - A reconstruction of a chieftain's homestead in Norway, based on the discovery of a remarkably large building. Includes an illustrated description of the excavation by Troms¸ Museum. Explore a Viking Village - NOVA Online's video tour of a life-like scale model of Birka, a medieval Viking village that archaeologists excavated near modern-day Stockholm. Fr¶jel Discovery Programme - A study of Viking Age harbours and trade, which includes the excavation of one of the largest and most important trading places on Gotland during the Viking era. Reports can be downloaded. Genetic Survey of Wirral and West Lancashire - Professor Steve Harding of Nottingham University heads a team looking for evidence for Viking descendants in this part of Britain. Hammer in the North: Mjollnir in Medieval Scandinavia - An article with bibliography by Daniel Bray at Sydney University on the proliferation of small metal amulets representing Mjollnir, the magical hammer of the god Thor, in the archaeological record of tenth century Scandinavia.
Lost-Ages.com argues Dr. Charles Schweger, an archaeology professor at like Eskimos, or moving to greenland s southern tip, to Iceland or to scandinavia, where they http://www.lost-ages.com/article.php?sid=3
Extractions: Added December 5, 2002. Updated May 4, 2003 hours. May 4, 2003 This page will be updated occasionally to add and revise information. Table of Contents th WORLD ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONGRESS THEME: Past Human Environments in Modern Contexts SESSION: Comparative Archeology and Paleoclimatology: Sociocultural Responses to a Changing World SESSION ABSTRACT ABSTRACTS Sunday, June 22 Douglas Frink: Transforming Linear Limits into Dynamic Solutions: Changes in Environmental Constraints and Cultural Adaptations. Ralf Vogelsang: From Hunter-Gatherer to Livestock-Keeper: Economic Change in Northeastern and Southwestern Africa. Olena V. Smyntyna: Early Prehistoric Migration as Sociocultural Response to a Changing World. Joel Gunn: Dangerous Regions: A Source of Cascading Cultural Changes. Dean Snow: Population Movements and the Archaeological Record. Michael Adler: The Poverty of the Settlement Abandonment Concept in Archaeology: Ancestral Pueblo Landscape Use in the American Southwest. Thomas H. McGovern: It got cold and they died? Climate and the End of Norse Greenland.
The American-Scandinavian Foundation changes were also influencing life in scandinavia, where the most extensive studies were in greenland, where the archaeology at Viking and Norse sites in the http://www.amscan.org/viking.html
Extractions: by William W. Fitzhugh The discovery of the New World by Leif Eriksson one thousand years ago will be celebrated this year when Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga opens at the Smithsonian lnstitution's National Museum of Natural History on April 29, 2000. Eight years after the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus' first voyage to the Caribbean, the exhibition seeks to educate the North American public about an earlier episode of European history in the New World by focusing attention on the contributions made by the Vikings and their Norse descendants, who continue to inhabit North Atlantic regions into the modern day. It turns out that educating the public about the Vikings and their relevance to North America is more necessary than one might imagine. North Americans know surprisingly little about this subject, even though it is one of the most popular topics taught in secondary schools (right after the history of Ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome, and American Indians). What little is presented about Vikings in North American schools only serves to reinforce the stereotypic view of Vikings as crazed warriors bent on mayhem and destruction as they careen about the coasts of Europe in their "dragon-ships," harrying defenseless monasteries, laying siege to towns and cities, and carrying off plunder and slaves to their homelands in Scandinavia. This image has been reinforced by movies, such as the famous Kirk Douglas and Tony Curtis film
Timeline 1: 25,000 BP To 1299 the Asiatic steppe (Oxford Companion to archaeology 644 Culture II flourished in Peary Land, Northeast greenland. of iron into southern scandinavia; evidence of http://www.yukoncollege.yk.ca/~agraham/nost202/4sibt1.htm
Extractions: 25,000 BP 24,000 BP "A single giant freshwater lake covering most of the West Siberian Plain at around the time of the Last Glacial Maximum. Stretching some 1500 km from north to south, and a similar distance east to west at its widest points, at its maximum extent it would have had a surface area at least twice that of the Caspian Sea." "Formed by the damming of the Yenisei and Ob rivers by an eastward lobe of the Ural and Putorana ice sheets, this mega-lake appears, from the available dates, to have reached its maximum extent by around 24,000 years ago, and to have existed in some form up until around 12,000 or 13,000 radiocarbon years ago." "The lake which existed would have covered most of western Siberia, stretching about 1500 km from north to south (see map Fig.3), with several large islands of higher ground emerging from it." Complete (unfinished) article by E. U. Lioubimtseva, S. P. Gorshkov and
Module 3 Reading Review Questions - NOST 202 truly scientific article on interior Alaskan archaeology ? When does the Komsa culture reach northern scandinavia? What is the greenlandic name for greenland? http://www.yukoncollege.yk.ca/~agraham/nost202/m3_review.htm
Extractions: Fagan, "In the Beginning" Why do we begin our exploration of Circumpolar peoples in Africa? How can palaeoanthropologists be so certain humans didn't evolve in the Americas? What does "every fragment of fossil evidence so far" suggest? When did the Americas split off from Asia? Approximately when did the Old World monkeys and the Hominoidea diverge? What did the population of Hominoidea consist of two million years ago? In what ways were the Australopithecus different from other higher primates? What "enabled humans to act upon and change their surroundings"? From what are we able to learn the behaviour patterns of the early humans? What are "hominids"? Summarize their way of life. Summarize the characteristics of Homo erectus. At 350,000 years ago, where do we find the world's human population? What kinds of tools were they using? When does "archaic Homo sapiens" begin to replace Homo erectus? In what ways were Homo sapiens more sophisticated than Homo erectus? By when is it certain that archaic Homo sapiens had colonized "most of Africa, Europe, and Asia"?
Through Dirt To The Past: Archaeology In Rural Iceland As in scandinavia and Europe, there was great interest Erik the Red (the discoverer of greenland and father of the exciting prospects of archaeology in Iceland http://www.worldandicollege.com/public/2003/november/cl1pub.asp
Extractions: he first settlers came to Iceland little more than a thousand years ago. Eventually, more than thirty chieftains from Norway, with their followers and slaves, occupied the island. During the twelfth century, their descendants started to write down everything known about the settlement and the events of the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth centuries. During the thirteenth century, the competition among the chieftains became fierce, and soon only five remained. By 1262 there was only one. He then became a subject of the king of Norway. This effectively ended Icelandic self-government until 1944, when the modern country gained independence. A turf wall. Remains of walls of this type, constructed hundreds of years ago, often contain clues about conditions of life at the time the sods were cut and laid.
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Bibliography Of Sources For Viking Art in Norwegian urban and rural context. archaeology and the ivory c. 10001200 AD in scandinavia, NW Europe argued that this ivory came from greenland, and that http://www.vikinganswerlady.com/art_bib.htm
Extractions: The Vikings practiced a wide range of arts, and the styles and motifs they utilized were vivid and sophisticated. As Wilson and Klindt-Jensen comment in their book, Viking Art , "The surviving art of the early Viking Age exhibits a brilliancy, originality and competence, hard to equal in contemporary Europe..." The sources I list below are only the merest sampling of the books available discussing various aspects of Viking art. I have included not only general works and "picture books" but also a variety of scholarly articles on various aspects of Viking Age crafts as well. As a note, many of the items listed may not be be available in your local public library. There are a couple of ways to access these if you are not a student at a university or college: The first is to visit a university or college library. Most allow non-students to use the library, although often you won't be able to check out books. However, it's simple to photocopy a journal article, and every university library I've ever visited had copy machines for public use. The second method would be to go to your library and ask the reference librarian for information on obtaining materials through Interlibrary Loan (ILL). Surprisingly small libraries have been able to get really obscure documents for me via ILL. Sometimes your local branch library can handle an ILL request, sometimes you have to go to the main branch of the library - just ask, the librarians will be happy to tell you how it's done in your library. Usually ILL involves a small fee to cover photocopyinga nd shipping articles to you. You can also get books this way, and in the case of books they usually loan the book to your library, and you will then either check it out from your library or else you may have to use it while at the library, depending on the practices of the library which owns the work.
The Heroic Age:Archaeology Digest archaeology Digest. The case will travel from scandinavia to Russia, Ukraine, Israel, France, Britain, Ireland, Germany, Iceland, greenland and finally on http://www.mun.ca/mst/heroicage/issues/3/arch.html
Extractions: The Heroic Age Issue 3 Summer 2000 Compiled by Michelle Ziegler Vikings and Picts Romans Anglo-Saxons Romano-British Vikings and Picts October 9, 2000 is the millennial anniversary of Leif Ericsson's foundation of the first European colony in North America at L'Anse aux Meadows in a region that Leif called Vinland (now Newfoundland). Celebrations to commemorate the anniversary are underway on both sides of the Atlantic. The Viking Network has organized a relay of a case, containing educational information on the Vikings of c. 1000 AD and Leif in particular, to be carried from school to school throughout the areas where the Vikings once sailed. The case will travel from Scandinavia to Russia, Ukraine, Israel, France, Britain, Ireland, Germany, Iceland, Greenland and finally on to North America. You can follow the case online at http://www.viking.no/vnet/projects/leif_2000/casevisits.html . At the time of writing it was just leaving Germany for Iceland after already traveling to Norway, Russia, Ukraine, Israel, France, Ireland and Britain. The Smithsonian Museum in the US will also offer a traveling exhibit to celebrate the Viking millennial event. The exhibit, called "Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga", will open at the Smithsonian in Washington on April 29, 2000 and run through August 13, 2000. This 3 million dollar exhibit will host more than 200 artifacts from 800 AD to contemporary pop culture items in a 5500 sq. foot exhibit. Artifacts have been collected not only from the United States collections but also from Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Iceland, Greenland, and Canada. After the close of the Smithsonian exhibit August 13, artifacts will begin a two year tour of North America visiting New York, Ottawa, Los Angeles, Houston, and Chicago.
Vikings' Barbaric Bad Rap Beginning To Fade the people who lived in scandinaviaSweden, Norway the Atlantic Ocean to Iceland, greenland, and eventually archaeology, not medieval texts, is beginning to http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/02/0217_040217_vikings.html
Extractions: Click the link for more information. ) was a Danish For alternative meanings, see Denmark (disambiguation). The Kingdom of Denmark is the smallest Nordic country, situated in Scandinavia, in northern Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea and the North Sea, on a peninsula and a number of islands north of Germany and Poland, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway. Additionally, the territories of Greenland and the Faroe Islands are under Danish sovereignty, while enjoying home rule.
ORB -- Finding Information On Scandinavia and the collection on scandinavia are quite Ireland, Orkney Islands, Shetlands, Scotland, greenland, Vinland, Russia For archaeology If you are interested in http://www.the-orb.net/encyclop/early/pre1000/scanbib3.html
Extractions: Encyclopedia Library Reference Teaching ... HOME ORB Online Encyclopedia Scandinavia Finding Information Tamsin Hekala This article is the third in the Scandinavian sources series. The first article is on the primary sources, the second article is on the theoretical filters found in secondary sources, and this article is a case study on how to navigate around the sources and data on a research project. So here are some guidelines and tips on how to do research on a common topic, Vikings. You would think that finding information on such a broad topic would be relatively easy. Although there is certainly a great deal of scholarship on Vikings it is not neatly categorized. Nor is it located in any one place or under a couple of key terms. The first criteria for doing your research will be patience. While the first step is knowing how to find, or discover common alternate terms for an area of interest. One useful tool for alternate terms is the Guide to the Listings of the Library of Congress . This guide provides topic listings used by libraries to categorize information. The guide and discussing your project with the reference librarian for additional ideas will assist in making your research project a success. A second step is understanding the current state of information be it on-line, CD, or traditional. Critical to the success of a search is an awareness of the current limitations for on-line or CDrom databases. While the information is increasingly more available on-line it is not perfect nor complete. Never assume that if it isn't on-line it doesn't exist. At least half of the research work you will do will be in the older bound sources. The United States the National Union Catalog series pre 1956 is still a good starting place for primary sources and odd collections. Another useful source is the 1988 listing of archives in the United States. A third source for information is the Encyclopedia of Associations which lists professional groups by interest and any related publications. All offer alternate routes to finding the information on your topic.
HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE SHIP Norlund P., 1936, Viking Settlers of greenland. der, 1978, Mast and sail in scandinavia in the McGrail S. (ed.) Aspects of Maritime archaeology and Ethnography http://cma.soton.ac.uk/HistShip/shipb13.htm
HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE SHIP - LECTURE NOTES HISTORY AND archaeology OF THE SHIP LECTURE NOTES. greenland, in particular, relied very heavily for its reorientation shifted trade from scandinavia to the http://cma.soton.ac.uk/HistShip/shlect80.htm
Extractions: History of Seafaring and the first edition of Basil Greenhill's Archaeology of the Boat both of which are easily available on rota in the Bangor University Library, and many may also be found in other and more recent books. Slides displayed in this Web page are taken from JSI's personal collection. This page is under development and not all references are complete. 80 THE SHIP IN THE MIDDLE AGES.
Ancient Mysteries: Viking In North America Introduction What year did Norsemen leave greenland to sail west? What evidence has archaeology unearthed? What was scandinavia? Other name? http://www.foxtel.com.au/771.htm
History Bibiliography Viking age, both at home in scandinavia and in the Viking colonies from greenland to Russia. Johnson, Walter Byways in British archaeology, Cambridge, 1912. http://www.sunnyway.com/runes/historybooks.html
Extractions: More than just history, this bibliography touches upon culture, anthropology, archeology, language, linguistics and other related topics pertaining to the people who used runes, and the countries in which they lived. Regrettably, my primary focus has been Vikings, but you will find a bit on the Teutons, Goths, Angle-Saxons, Celts, and Indo-Europeans. I plan to expand the bibliography as time permits. If the title is hyperlinked, the book can be ordered from Amazon.com . Click on the hyperlinked title to be taken to Amazon.com. When possible, I've identified other sources, such as or Anglo-Saxon Books . I've found used copies on eBay Half.com Abebooks.com and Amazon.com . The older ones may be available in a large public or university library or Questia.com online library. It has been brought to my attention that my bibliographies have been extracted verbatim by lazy college students, for use in their own term papers. Of course, it doesn't fool anyone. However, to make it a teeny bit more difficult, I've removed the publication data. They can still copy, but they'll have to do a bit more work. One does have to wonder if they've also copied the term papers. A Catalogue and its Users : A Symposium on the Upsala Collection of Medieval manuscripts , ISBN=9155435653.
Long Beach City College--Library Subject Guide--The Vikings pirates from the icy regions of scandinavia. such as Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Iceland, greenland. Viking religion, civilization, archaeology, culture, epigraphy http://lib.lbcc.edu/handouts/vikings.html
Extractions: The Vikings, the proud symbol of Long Beach City College, have long been noted as fierce warrior-pirates from the icy regions of Scandinavia. Well, they did raise fear in the hearts of men as their ships' dragon-heads appeared through the fog like sea monsters and sliding onto shore the fiercest Beserker Vikings came wildly swinging their battle axes. The largest longships could carry more than 60 warriors who could quickly embark from their shore-landed ships. A medieval prayer echoes the fear of the Europeans: "From the fury of the Norsemen, good Lord deliver us." (see John R. Hale: http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/%7Ejasen01/texts/longship.htm
Personal Homepage Ulf Näsman development of polities in South scandinavia from the late emphasis is put on comparativ archaeology and historical Survey of Denmark and greenland, Copenhagen. http://www.hum.au.dk/fark/farkun/home_uk.htm
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