Kensington Runestone Goes To Sweden created before the arrival of Scandinavian immigrants in the Midwest.greenland and Ohman s native region of Helsingland in Sweden have also expressed http://www.archaeology.org/0401/newsbriefs/runestone.html
Extractions: Your browser does not support javascript Kensington Runestone Goes to Sweden Volume 57 Number 1, January/February 2004 by Kristin M. Romey The disputed Kensington Runestone is prepared for its trip from Alexandria, Minnesota, to the National Historical Museum in Stockholm. (Courtesy Runestone Museum, Minnesota) [LARGER IMAGE] One of America's most notorious "artifacts," whose authenticity has been in dispute since it was discovered by a Minnesota farmer in 1898, has gone on display at Sweden's National Historical Museum. The Kensington Runestone, supposedly an account of fourteenth-century Norse explorers in America, was shipped overseas from the private Runestone Museum in Alexandria, Minnesota, in late fall for an exhibition entitled "The Riddle of the Kensington Runestone." At the opening of the exhibit, in a ceremony attended by more than seven-hundred guests and dignitaries, American ambassador to Sweden Charles Heimbold conceded that the runestone may be a forgery, a "strange, early Swedish-American practical joke" that nonetheless served as a symbol of the enduring ties between the United States and Scandinavia. The runestone has generated enormous interest in Sweden, where it has been the subject of more than 120 articles, and museum attendance records were broken in the first week of the exhibit, which runs until January. Lars Westman, the journalist whose article on the runestone for the Swedish publication Vi inspired the exhibition, has jokingly suggested that "perhaps time has arrived" for the restitution of the stone to Sweden, along with the remains of Olof Ohman, the farmer who discovered it while clearing stumps on his farmland over a century ago.
Long Beach City College--Library Subject Guide--The Vikings Use the term of a Viking area such as Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Iceland, greenland.You may also search for Viking religion, civilization, archaeology, 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
Alibris: History Europe Scandinavia Used, new outof-print books with subject History Europe scandinavia. Presents brief biographies of the Norse explorer who settled greenland and of http://www.alibris.com/search/books/subject/History Europe Scandinavia
Alibris: Scandinavia Used, new outof-print books with subject scandinavia. of Ireland, greenland,Britain, and Christian Europe and their culture, society and livelihood. http://www.alibris.com/search/books/subject/Scandinavia
Extractions: The earliest extant poem in a modern European language, Beowulf was composed 400 years before the Norman Conquest. As a social document, this great epic poem reflects a feudal, newly Christian world of heroes and monsters, blood and victory and death. As a work of art, it rings with a beauty, power, and artistry that have kept it alive for more...
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.
Czech-American Rmíz Research Program: 1998 Activity Report archaeology of Eastern North America 206779 (1992) 1994 Record of VolcanismSince 7000 BC from the GISP2 greenland Ice Core and Implications for the http://www.comp-archaeology.org/RMIZ1998REPORT.HTM
Extractions: Maximilian O. Baldia, Christel Baldia and Douglas Frink Research Purpose Research Area Cultural Affiliation and Chronology The Fortified Sites of Central Moravia ... Related Links List of Figures Map of Central and Northern Europe Location of Rmíz, Czech Republic The Funnel Beaker culture area Relative chronology of Central Europe Baalberge radiocarbon dates from the Czech Republic and adjacent region Location of Neolithic enclosures in Europe indicating their concentration in Moravia Location of Moravian Funnel Beaker culture enclosed central sites Topographic map of Rmíz Aerial photo of Rmíz with the Sumice river in the foreground Loom weights and spindle whorls from the collections at the Olomouc Museum Charred textile fragment from Rmíz/Kremela I Mound 2 Tables The first OCR dates from the Czech Republic It is the purpose of this report to inform you of the ongoing research progress of the Rmíz Project with particular focus on the Rmíz textile. The fieldwork took place from June 8, 1998 until June 29, 1998.
Extractions: Home Subject Guides Scandinavian Studies The main collections of Scandinavian material (books and journals) are held in the Main Library at George Square - (Please note that floorplans are currently available in Adobe Acrobat pdf format. About pdf Current Lending Stock (Standard Loan and Short - 1 week - Loan) - acquired since 1999 is on Floor 4 shelved by Library of Congress classification number. Material relevant to the study of Scandinavia/Northern Europe can be found in various sections e.g Scandinavian political institutions and public administration at JN 7011-7066 , and then upwards from that for specific Scandinavian/North European states
Extractions: As for limitations, Mr. Enterline offers this: The story so construed is not held out as proven truth. Instead it is a plausible theory to be tested against independent evidence (p. xix), holding that the day to day purpose of science is not the establishment of universal final explanations (p. xix) but the articulation of theories that lead to further research and better theories. His methodology takes the book out of the realm of history: This is not a history book . It is a pre-history book that subjects maps and documents, as artifacts, to the inductive methods of archaeology. (p. xix). Confronted by the inevitable question, did Columbus see these documents, Enterline concludes that whether he did or not, the generation preceding him certainly did and as a rationally motivated proto-scientist (p. xix), his views of land to the west were thereby influenced by them. Creating that chronology is what much of the remainder of the book is about. In it Enterline states that the divulgence-hiding paradigms alluded to above can clarify the heretofore-unexplained features of Arctic and Far Eastern coastal features that appeared on maps after the Norse encountered the Thule Eskimos in western Greenland. There are eighty-six items in this chronological survey, dating from Ptolemys Geographia in the second century to Hans Poulson Resens map of Vinland, 1605. These include maps, manuscripts, books, voyages and other events, all testifying to the breadth and inclusiveness of Enterlines research. Some will appear more convincing and pertinent than others but together they are marshaled to account for the eventual appearance of North America as a geographical entity separate from Asia.
2005-2006 UAF Catalog Modern scandinavia (s) scandinavia (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden)from the including Alaska, Siberia, scandinavia, greenland and Canada. http://www.uaf.edu/catalog/current/courses/class/hist.html
Extractions: Significant aspects of modern world history, using either a chronological or an issues approach to be announced when offered. The chronological approach will examine major global developments in the twentieth century, while the issues approach will deal with such aspects of the modern world as revolutionary change, the interaction of peoples, ideology and the historical background of significant contemporary events. Also available via Independent Learning. (3+0) Offered Fall, Spring HIST 101 3 Credits The region's history beginning with oral traditions about the creation of the area and ending with passage of the Alaska Native Land Claims Act in 1971. Concentrates on Yup'ik social, economic and educational changes, including both Native and non-Native accounts. Offered only at the Kuskokwim Campus. (3+0) Offered As Demand Warrants
Antiquity - Volume 71 Number273, September 1997 - Contents DV Clarke Changing paradigms in museum archaeology .744 The PaleoEskimocultures of greenland new perspectives in greenlandic archaeology by http://antiquity.ac.uk/ant/071/273/Default.htm
Arctic Information For Kids greenland GUIDE This is the Arctic. A world of breathtaking beauty and strength on greenland, Iceland, scandinavia, Siberia and the Russian Far East. http://www.athropolis.com/links/arctic.htm
GCMRS Study Options The School of archaeology and History provides a full range of medieval graduate The nature of society in scandinavia, especially Denmark, in the Viking http://www.gla.ac.uk/centres/mars/mphilop2.htm
Extractions: e-mail: enquiries@archaeology.arts.gla.ac.uk The School of Archaeology and History provides a full range of medieval graduate studies within its departments, including both taught and research degrees. For further details and a separate brochure, please contact the School Administrative Secretary, Christelle Le Riguer, 9 University Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QQ, tel.: 0141 330 3538. Courses offered 1. Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Scandinavian Northumbria c.600-c.1066 ad An integrated approach to the study of this region from the seventh century to the eleventh century and from both an archaeological and historical perspective. Primary historical sources, such as Bede and Saints' Lives, together with excavation data and material such as illuminated manuscripts and sculpture and church architecture, will be considered. The study will encompass both secular and ecclesiastical society, focussing especially upon Anglo-Saxon monasteries and the impact of the Vikings. 2. The Church in the North and West of Britain and Ireland c.400-1100 ad
From Yuku@globalserve.net (Yuri Kuchinsky) Newsgroups Sci These professional runologists, both in US and in scandinavia had never seen suchrunes Are we getting into Psychic archaeology stuff here, or what? http://www.trends.net/~yuku/tran/8k1.htm
Vikings confirmed by the multitude of combs found at archaeology sites. First togo was the Scandinavian presence in Vinland. greenlands Western Settlement http://www.vvdailypress.com/2001-2003/99682200057917.html
Qua_broc archaeology, GEOarchaeology Concern with the interrelationships between Glacial process; Quaternary geology of midwest, scandinavia; geomorphology. http://www.geology.wisc.edu/~davem/qprogram/qprogram.html
Extractions: The study of the Quaternary Period has a long and illustrious history at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, beginning with T.C. Chamberlin and R.D. Salisbury a century ago. The UW-Madison now has one of the largest, most diverse groups of Quaternary researchers in North America. Interdisciplinary research is a particular strength in the Quaternary program at UW-Madison. Students can pursue an M.S. or Ph.D. in Quaternary studies in one or more of the graduate departments on campus. In addition to course work required for disciplinary or joint degree or degrees, students take appropriate course work in a related minor discipline. The following is a brief description of areas of interest. Following that is a list of faculty and links to their web sites where available. Finally, a list of cooperating departments also has links to department web pages. ARCHAEOLOGY, GEOARCHAEOLOGY Much of the Quaternary-oriented climatological research at UW-Madison concerns the diagnosing and modeling of past and present climates on continent-wide and world-wide scales. This work includes using paleoenvironmental indicators, such as pollen and diatoms, to reconstruct climate changes over the past 18,000 years and the use of general-circulation and other climate models to simulate the behavior of past climates in the late Quaternary and the late Cenozoic. Additional research involves reconstructing the climatological history of the Great Lakes region over the past several centuries. Faculty in most of the other areas of Quaternary studies on campus participate in research that deals with climate change and paleoclimates.
Timeline 1: 25,000 BP To 1299 Allerød, Norway Deglaciation of scandinavia begins and people begin moving northfollowing Independence Culture I Peary Land, Northeast greenland 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
Biological Archaeology: Modules The nature of archaeological theory 2. archaeology and the philosophy of science 3 . The MesolithicNeolithic transition from the Balkans to scandinavia; http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/archsci/depart/pgrad/bioarch/Mods_BA.php
Extractions: Location :: Home Biological Archaeology: Modules This module aims to enhance the level of archaeozoological understanding and expertise gained in Paleoeconomy. The module will study methodological and interpretive issues in archaeozoology alongside practical laboratory sessions on animal bone identification, ageing, sexing, pathology and other bone modifications, recording and quantitative analysis, backed up by studies in the interpretation of published assemblages. The module will be taught via lectures, practical workshops and seminars. To provide a thorough grounding in the development of theory in archaeology and related disciplines. This course uses 32 hours of directed small-group tutorials which develop, in part, out of the basic lecture spine of AR5102M (Theoretical Archaeology, UG, 10 credits), attendance at which is optional. There are 13 topics (10 with 2 hours of tutorial and 3 with 4 hours of tutorial):1. The nature of archaeological theory 2. Archaeology and the philosophy of science 3. The first paradigm: from Tradescant to Worsaae 4. Key tools from social anthropology (2 double tutorials) 5. The culture concept: Kossinna, race, and evolution 6. The earlier and the later Childe 7. Kuhn, Popper, and the basics of new Archaeology 8. Clarkian entitation 9. Collingwood, contextualism and post-processualism 10. Feminism, gender archaeology, and the prehistory of sex (2 double tutorials) 11. Death and the origin and meaning of mortuary practice (2 double tutorials) 12. Wylie's 'interpretative dilemma' 13. The future of archaeological knowledge.
ORB -- Finding Information On Scandinavia The available information and the collection on scandinavia are quite typical For archaeology If you are interested in the archaeological information 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.
New Books study of towns and villages in the southern part of Western greenland the This dissertation is the product of two visits to Arctic scandinavia in http://www.hum.au.dk/cnatlant/newbooks.htm
List_of_authors Hansen, LI Trade and markets in Northern Fennoscandinavia AD 1550-1750. Schools in small settlements in greenland The impact on the opportunities of http://www.imv.uit.no/english/science/publicat/actaborealia/list_of_authors.html
Extractions: Volume 1(1), 1984 Bertelsen, R.: Farm mounds of the Harstad area. Quantitative investigations of accumulation characteristics. 7-25. Helskog, K.: The Younger Stone Age settlements in Varanger, North Norway. 39-70. Jahr, E.H.: Language Contact in Northern Norway. Adstratum and substratum in the Norwegian, Sami and Finnish for Northern Norway. 103-112. Volume 1(2), 1984 Engelstad, E.: Diversity in Arctic maritime adaptions. An example from the Late Stone Age of Arctic Norway. 3-24. Hansen, L.I.: Trade and markets in Northern Fenno-Scandinavia A.D. 1550-1750. 47-79. Nielssen, A.R.: Animal husbandry among the Norwegian population in Finnmark c. 1685-1705. 81-112. Volume 2(1-2), 1985 Proceedings of the Guovdageaidnu (Kautokeino) seminar on "minority research from the point of view of the humanities and social sciences" Mathiesen, P.: Comments on the Guovdageaidnu seminar. 3-8. Hansen, L.I.: Sami title to land in Southern Troms, Norway - Approach, method and data in reconstructing Sami rights of the past. 9-28. Thuen, T.: Acculturation and ethnic survival? 29-45.
