Lost and found: Viking Age human bones and textiles from Bjerringhoj, Denmark
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Lost and found : Viking Age human bones and textiles from Bjerringhoj, Denmark. / Rimstad, Charlotte; Mannering, Ulla; Jorkov, Marie Louise S.; Kanstrup, Marie.
I: Antiquity, Bind 95, Nr. 381, 2021, s. 735-752.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Lost and found
T2 - Viking Age human bones and textiles from Bjerringhoj, Denmark
AU - Rimstad, Charlotte
AU - Mannering, Ulla
AU - Jorkov, Marie Louise S.
AU - Kanstrup, Marie
N1 - Publisher Copyright: Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Antiquity Publications Ltd.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - The human remains recovered from the famous Bjerringhoj Viking Age burial in Denmark have been missing for more than 100 years. Recently, an assemblage of bones resembling those recorded at Bjerringhoj - some with adherent textiles - were discovered in a misplaced box in the National Museum of Denmark. Here, the authors use new skeletal and comparative textile analyses, along with radiocarbon dating, to confirm that the bones are indeed those from the Bjerringhoj burial. This rediscovery offers new data for interpreting Viking Age clothing, including the presence of long trousers, and emphasises the importance of reinvestigating old archaeological collections housed within museums and archives.
AB - The human remains recovered from the famous Bjerringhoj Viking Age burial in Denmark have been missing for more than 100 years. Recently, an assemblage of bones resembling those recorded at Bjerringhoj - some with adherent textiles - were discovered in a misplaced box in the National Museum of Denmark. Here, the authors use new skeletal and comparative textile analyses, along with radiocarbon dating, to confirm that the bones are indeed those from the Bjerringhoj burial. This rediscovery offers new data for interpreting Viking Age clothing, including the presence of long trousers, and emphasises the importance of reinvestigating old archaeological collections housed within museums and archives.
KW - Bjerringhoj
KW - Denmark
KW - human bone
KW - museum collections
KW - textiles
KW - Viking Age
U2 - 10.15184/aqy.2020.189
DO - 10.15184/aqy.2020.189
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85107420727
VL - 95
SP - 735
EP - 752
JO - Antiquity
JF - Antiquity
SN - 0003-598X
IS - 381
ER -
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