With the advent of ancient DNA, as well as other methods such as isotope analysis,
destructive sampling of archaeofaunal remains has increased much faster than the effort to …

This keynote discusses how human-animal relationships can be studied as entanglements
to understand more of the situatedness of human and animal bodies and lives. It provides a …

In the traditional archaeology of Viking Age Scandinavia, additional human individuals in
graves are often interpreted and labelled as sacrifices, killed merely as grave goods or to …

The past 15 years have witnessed an increased effort to study and understand the deviant
burials of the Viking Age. The main objective has been to identify and describe instances of …

The last years have seen a strong rise in the use of the performative ritual framework, in
combination with texts from the Norse Corpus, to explain Viking Age archaeological sites …

Bog bodies are rare finds occasionally revealed in connection with peat-cutting or
excavation of drains. However, the record might be richer than formerly acknowledged, as …

The aim of this thesis is to expand the understanding of horses from ritual and everyday
contexts, respectively, by investigating their diet and mobility. In this thesis, teeth of domestic …

In his famous Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum, written between 1070–1085,
the cleric and chronicler Adam of Bremen reports that a large sacrificial celebration was held …

Informed by lived experience and research in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), the
authors analyze rhetorics of Muslim veg (etari) anism. Research on Muslim advocacy for …

Klas Wikström af Edholm. Human Sacrifice in Myth and Memory: A Study of Sacrificial
Practices in Old Norse Religion Based on Text Sources and Archaeological Material. This …