Researchers Solve the Origins of a Famous Collection of Viking Bones
For over 100 years human remains recovered from the famous Bjerringhøj Viking Age burial in Denmark have been missing. But now, a collection of Viking bones and textiles that were recovered from “a misplaced box” in the National Museum of Denmark has been confirmed as belonging to the Bjerringhøj burial. And these are not just any Viking bones: they are a world-famous collection that is now even more complete.
The team of Danish researchers describe their latest work as “an archaeological detective story” and they demonstrate the importance of modern in-depth re-investigations of old finds, and the importance of “source-critical approaches” when dealing with museum collections.
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The Denmark Tavern in its present glorious avatar
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In West Bengal’s Serampore, a former Danish colony, old landmarks are being restored back to life, recreating memories brick by brick
It is snooker night at The Denmark Tavern. Dressed in my weekend best, I wait for the ferry to take me across the Hooghly river. As the motor vessel glides to my destination, I see my friends waving from the grand balcony of the tavern.
The 10,000 square-feet property looks like a large yellow fondant cake. In its elegant new avatar, it houses a restaurant, bar, an outlet of the popular Flurys, and six cosy rooms all run by The Park.
A new study of flint mines and flint axes has shown that the earliest farmers in Denmark were central European immigrants and not Scandinavian hunter-gatherers, as had been previously thought.
The author of the new study Lasse Sorenson presented his recent findings at an international conference on the ‘Northern Worlds’ at the National Museum of Denmark.
Sorenson explained that around 6,000 years ago, agricultural hubs surfaced across southern Scandinavia, which led to Scandinavia’s first farmers. He went on to say that the people living there did not have the same approach as the hunter-gatherers to the flint axe, indicating that first farmers in the region arrived from the south.
Book Description Aarhus University Press, Denmark, 2017. Hardback. Condition: New. Language: English. Brand new Book. This is a study of a unique collection of Inner Mongolian artifacts at the National Museum of Denmark. They are described, analyzed and presented in a catalogue of more than 800 items, documenting the daily life of pastoral society in and around the tent, in the herding of the animals, in caravan trade and in hunting, crafts, sports and games, and in ritual life. Information about the objects was obtained during two expeditions to Inner Mongolia in the 1930s led by the Danish author Henning Haslund-Christensen, who had many years experience of travel and expedition life in Mongolia. This is also a detailed account of the expeditions; of the routes, means and measures, as well as the worries and hopes of the participants; of their struggles with scientific aspirations; and of the conditions for collecting against the backdrop of the Chinese civil war and the Japanese