Viking warrior women? Reassessing Birka chamber grave Bj.581

Price, Neil; Hedenstierna-Jonson, Charlotte; Zachrisson, Torun; Kjellström, Anna; Storå, Jan; Krzewińska, Maja; Günther, Torsten; Sobrado, Verónica; Jakobsson, Mattias; Götherström, Anders

doi:10.15184/aqy.2018.258

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“…No responses to the two original articles were registered in academic journals within the three-month frame of our investigation (but see Price et al 2019). However, especially in the case of the Birka warrior, scholars commented extensively in social and news media.…”

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confidence: 94%

“…In January 2019, sixteen months after the first article, the authors of the Birka warrior article published a response to Jesch's criticism in the peerreviewed journal Antiquity (Price et al 2019). It was, just as the other articles, published open access but has so far (May 2019) not caused any significant response in news or social media.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Archaeogenetics in Popular Media: Contemporary Implications of Ancient DNA

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If most academic debates surrounding the recent boom of ancient DNA (aDNA) so far have concerned conflicting research epistemologies, this article is a call for taking aspects of media and communication more seriously. Analyzing the fates of two recent research papers on Viking Age Scandinavia, we show how aDNA research is communicated, narrated and infused with meaning in the public sphere, particularly in relation to popular narratives and political debates. We observe significant interlacing of scientific, political and media discourses in and around the papers, and conclude that archaeogenetics is a highly mediatized scientific field.

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Section: The End: Inserting Uncertaintymentioning

confidence: 99%

Archaeogenetics in Popular Media: Contemporary Implications of Ancient DNA

Källén

Mulcare

Nyblom

et al. 2019

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“…Moen (2019) sees this kind of gender discrimination in the media and scholastic responses to recent aDNA research confirming that a Viking woman was buried in a grave rich in weaponry in Birka, Sweden (Price et al. 2019). Although Price and his colleagues conducted a careful bioarchaeological study and published a reflexive report on the findings, they nonetheless had to defend their conclusions against disbelief over the existence of female warriors (Price et al.…”

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“…Many of the 2018 trends tracked by Kosiba (2019) hold in 2019. There is still, for example, a continued questioning and reconfiguring of epistemological dichotomies, such as nature/culture (Cipolla and Allard 2019), urban/rural (Garrison, Houston, and Alcover Firpi 2019), body/object (Miniaci 2019), and human/nonhuman (Recht 2019). There is still a rise in archaeological scholarship that addresses contemporary politics and heritage (e.g., Apaydin and Hassett 2019; Brown, Liuzza, Meskell 2019; Kurnick 2019; Parga Dans 2019).…”

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Confronting the Present: Archaeology in 2019

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2020

American Anthropologist

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Postmodernity has a distinctly pre‐apocalyptic feel to it, and this feeling has seeped into archaeology. A review of the scholarship from 2019 attests that archaeologists are having to reckon with present‐day conditions and phenomena as they structure their research, delineate the material world, and affirm archaeology's relevance. Furthermore, these concerns have moved from the realm of the rarely spoken and come to constitute a critical conversation in the field. In a number of respects, the contours of archaeology now hinge upon the discipline's responses to developments in real time, including: How can archaeological knowledge production escape the logistical and epistemological bounds of late capitalism and its failures? Can archaeology contribute to future‐building, and what would that look like? Does archaeology have to be scholar‐activism to achieve the goal of making the past matter (to whom) (for what)? [archaeology, contemporary archaeology, future archaeology, current issues]

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“…Varying spatially and temporally, the practice expresses both lived warriorhood and the aspiration to, or identification with, such status (e.g. Lindqvist 2004; Price et al 2019: 192). In the post-Roman period ( c .…”

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confidence: 99%