Søren M. Sindbæk

TL;DR: It is concluded that the Viking diaspora was characterized by substantial transregional engagement: distinct populations influenced the genomic makeup of different regions of Europe, and Scandinavia experienced increased contact with the rest of the continent.

TL;DR: The authors found that the long-distance traders in early medieval Europe were largely self-directed actions of these intrepid merchants which created what the author calls ''the nodal points'' and found that this type of non-political initiative may well have proved pivotal.

TL;DR: In this paper, lead isotopic analysis of archaeological walrus ivory and bone from Greenland and Iceland offers a tool for identifying possible source regions of walrus Ivory during the early Middle Ages, allowing to assess the development and relative importance of hunting grounds from the point of view of exported products.

TL;DR: Viking Age long‐distance exchange is shown to have generated a small group of hubs, but lacked another feature, typically found in mature, robust networks: the connections rarely reached across hierarchical levels, and points to a salient difference between early medieval long‐ distance communications and modern globalisation.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used peptide mass fingerprinting (ZooMS) to identify the species of reindeer antler in early mediaeval northern Europe to explore the resource networks behind the manufacture of composite combs of deer antler.