The study is now published in Science Advances: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adq4127
Lund archaeologists investigate early Norse interactions with High Arctic Indigenous peoples
Publicerad den 30 september 2024
By examining ancient walrus DNA, an international research team led by Lund University in Sweden have retraced the walrus ivory trade routes of the Viking Age. They found that Norse Vikings and Arctic Indigenous peoples were probably meeting and trading ivory in remote parts of High Arctic Greenland, several centuries before Christopher Columbus “discovered” North America.