Neil Price: Salme and the Viking Phenomenon / Salme ja viikingite fenomen

EN:
The discovery of the first of the Salme boats in 2008 marked a watershed in recent studies of the late Iron Age in the Baltic: it is no exaggeration to say that these two burials were an archaeological revelation. From the material culture and funerary rituals, it was clear early on that the Salme finds had connections with the boat burial cultures of eastern central Sweden, a link later confirmed by isotopic analysis of the human remains. The understandable academic interest that this generated took on a more practical character in late 2015, when the Swedish Research Council funded a ten-year programme at Uppsala University to investigate the origins of the ‘Viking phenomenon’. Part of the research project’s objectives involve the re-evaluation and final publication of the Valsgärde cemetery in Uppland - among the closest parallels to Salme - and to deconstruct the artificial border of the Vendel-Viking transition. In this adjusted context, the mid-eighth-century finds at Salme took on even greater relevance, and formal contact between the respective research groups was an obvious step. This talk will set out the background and thinking behind the Viking Phenomenon project, its aims and preliminary results, in the context of our collaborations with the Salme team.
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The conference was supported by Enterprise Estonia from the European Regional Development Fund.
ET:
Salme paatide avastamine 2008. aastal tähistas suurt murrangut Baltimaade rauaaja uurimises: ei ole liialdus öelda, et need kaks matmispaika olid erakordsed arheoloogilised avastused. Alustades materiaalsest kultuurist ja matuserituaalidest, oli algusest peale selge, et Salme leidudel on seos Ida-Kesk-Rootsi paatmatustega, mis sai hiljem kinnitust ka inimjäänuste isotoopanalüüsidega.
Arusaadavalt põhjustas leid akadeemilist huvi, mis sai 2015. aastal praktilisema sisu, kui Rootsi Teadusnõukogu rahastas Uppsala Ülikooli kümneaastast programmi, et uurida ‘viikingite fenomeni’ algeid.
Uurimusprojekti eesmärkide seas on Uppsalas asuva Valsgärde kalmistu, mis on Salmele lähim paralleel, ümberhindamine ja tulemuste lõplik avaldamine ning Vendeli-viikingite ülemineku tehispiiri dekonstrueerimine. Selles uuendatud kontekstis omandasid Salme kaheksanda sajandi keskpaiga leiud veelgi olulisema tähenduse ning ametlik kontakt vastavate uurimisrühmade vahel oli ilmselgelt vajalik. Käesolev ettekanne tutvustab viikingite projekti tausta ja mõttekäike, eesmärke ja esialgseid tulemusi meie koostöö kontekstis Salme meeskonnaga.
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Konverentsi rahastas EAS toetusmeetmest Euroopa Regionaalarengu Fond.

[@emmafre-haack1746]

Great!

[@JohnDoe-nh7vx]

Stop attacking and trying to discredit European history. We were not multi racial

[@Fairyviewroad]

Lol

[@Norther56]

@JohnDoe-nh7vx Please be specific as to who is "attacking and trying to discredit European history." As for Europe not being multi-ethnic, sorry to disappoint, but the genetic proof exists to the contrary.

[@oswaldmosley6179]

@@Norther56 Communists are attacking European history. There were no black or brown vikings.

[@veronicajensen7690]

by "multi ethnic" they mean Scandinavians mixed with people from Finland incl. Sami people, people from the Baltics, Poland, Russia, Ukraine, the British islands, France ect. dna studies from Viking burials showed 97% had Scandinavian dna and some where a mix of the people mentioned or others

[@Norther56]

@@veronicajensen7690 Science! Ty for the back-up. Still way too many ppl forget that "going a-viking" started out as a "lifestyle choice" (lol). Not All Scandinavians were Vikings, and not all Vikings were 100% Scandinavian. One can certainly say "predominantly" for the latter.

[@martinpospisil3747]

Queer Vikings than?

[@JohnDoe-nh7vx]

No, they would have been killed.

[@Norther56]

@@JohnDoe-nh7vx Where's your proof that this would have happened? You provide no cites to support this statement.

[@Norther56]

@martinpospisil3747 It's likely. No one knows whether such relationships were openly accepted in Viking culture.

[@petterzachrisson6500]

the gender roles where very fixed and men waring women clothes would be shamed or punished. That said, power aloud chieftains and their close family to do what they wanted....

[@heidifarstadkvalheim4952]

@@JohnDoe-nh7vxnot! They would have been wizards 😅- and Loke was both male and female. Stop using my inheritance to push white supremacy 😡

[@oswaldmosley6179]

Vikings were European only, they were not multi Ethnic and stop attacking our heritage. We have a right to be proud.

[@bartholomeo999]

Science proves otherwise

[@Fairyviewroad]

You can't handle the truth.

[@JohnDoe-nh7vx]

@@Fairyviewroad its not true, so..

[@oswaldmosley6179]

@@Fairyviewroad Nothing true about it, our DNA is not the same is people of other races.

[@Fairyviewroad]

@@oswaldmosley6179 Lol