Abstract

The Society does not accept responsibility for opinions expressed by its conrtibutors Ancient Scandinavia. An archaeological history from the (1050 a .d .). It presents the latest of a number first humans to the Vikings (Oxford University Press, of national syntheses, filling an important gap Oxford, 2016). By T. Douglas Price. 190 × 254 mm. by communicating these findings in English. The 520 pp. 298 colour and b/w illustrations. ISBN 978 author, Douglas Price, is hugely experienced in this 0 1902 3197 2. Price £41.99. field and highly acknowledged for spearheading the development of isotope studies in archaeology. Scandinavia is world-famous for its prehistoric He is world-famous owing to his production of archaeology, with exceptional finds of Mesolithic well over 200 papers and books, especially on the kitchen middens and submarine sites, Bronze Age transition to the Neolithic on Zealand. He has lived oak-log coffins and rock carvings, Iron Age bog and carried out extensive excavation in Denmark bodies and well-preserved settlement sites, Viking for a substantial part of his life. Concurrently and, Age ships and burials, and thousands of field systems, at the same, he was the Director of the Laboratory barrows and megaliths that still mark the