Archaeologists say they have unearthed more than 50 well-preserved Viking skeletons over the past six months, providing valuable insight into how marine societies lived and moved. Ta.
“This discovery provides an excellent opportunity to carry out a wide range of scientific analyses, including the general health and dietary habits of those buried,” Michael Bolle-Lund, archaeologist and curator at the Odense Museum, said in a statement. “We can shed more light on its origins.”
He added that it was “really rare” to find so many well-preserved human bones at once.
The 2,000 square meter Viking cemetery was used between the 9th and 10th centuries. It was discovered on the southern outskirts of Ausum Village.
Odense Museum
The bones are so well preserved that archaeologists believe they will be able to collect DNA samples for scientific analysis. Subsequent analysis may reveal whether some of the buried Vikings were related, something that had never been investigated before in a similarly significant discovery, Borre Lund said. said.
Associate Professor Sarah Croix from Denmark’s Aarhus University said: “It will be very interesting to find out where these people came from and whether generations of the same family were buried here. Deaf,” he said.
Archaeologists say there were several bones of people of high social status, as evidenced by the fact that one of the women was buried in the hull of a wagon (possibly the wagon she was riding in). She was buried with a beautiful necklace of glass beads, an iron key, and a knife. It had a silver thread handle and a small glass shard that may have served as an amulet.
At the foot of the carriage was a handsomely decorated wooden chest. Archaeologists don’t know what was inside the chest, but imagine a woman was buried with all of her finest goods.
Other skeletons were found buried with jewelry, including a woman with a metal ring around her neck, a woman with a single red glass ball hanging from a cord, and a woman with a special buckle. included women.
Recent Viking discoveries include around 300 silver coins thought to be over 1,000 years old. Discovered in 2023 Near the ruins of a Viking fortress in northwestern Denmark. And the big Viking burial ground Discovered by Norwegian archaeologists in 2020.