Jeanette Varberg
@jeanettevarberg.bsky.social
Archaeologist, writer and curator at the Danish National Museum
Bronze Age specialist and glass expert 🧿
Author of Viking - pillage, fire and sword ⚔️
Crossed the North Atlantic on a sailboat in the footsteps of the Vikings from Denmark to Newfoundland ⛵️🇩🇰🇨🇦
Bronze Age specialist and glass expert 🧿
Author of Viking - pillage, fire and sword ⚔️
Crossed the North Atlantic on a sailboat in the footsteps of the Vikings from Denmark to Newfoundland ⛵️🇩🇰🇨🇦
Pinned
Something lovely for the weekend!
Beautiful blue glass beads from the late Bronze Age.
Ploughed up by a farmer in Denmark in 1885, analysis shows the beads were made in Mesopotamia, pointing to long-distance trade in luxury goods some 3,000 years ago.
📷 National Museum of Denmark
#Archaeology
Beautiful blue glass beads from the late Bronze Age.
Ploughed up by a farmer in Denmark in 1885, analysis shows the beads were made in Mesopotamia, pointing to long-distance trade in luxury goods some 3,000 years ago.
📷 National Museum of Denmark
#Archaeology
It’s been 10 years since we got the first results from the Danish glass beads, but great that my research still is live and kicking out there!
Reposted by Jeanette Varberg
Proud to be part of the archaeological team from the Danish National Museum behind the fantastic Stone Age film “the strangers” set in Denmark 4000 BC where the first farmers met the hunter/gatheres
Two new languages were created for the film!
#archaeology #stoneage #prehistory
Two new languages were created for the film!
#archaeology #stoneage #prehistory
March 6, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Proud to be part of the archaeological team from the Danish National Museum behind the fantastic Stone Age film “the strangers” set in Denmark 4000 BC where the first farmers met the hunter/gatheres
Two new languages were created for the film!
#archaeology #stoneage #prehistory
Two new languages were created for the film!
#archaeology #stoneage #prehistory
I commented on a very interesting study on CNN!
edition.cnn.com/2025/01/23/s...
#sunstones #stonehenge #neolithic #stonehenge
edition.cnn.com/2025/01/23/s...
#sunstones #stonehenge #neolithic #stonehenge
Neolithic people in Denmark sacrificed ‘sun stones’ after climate cataclysm, scientists say | CNN
Sacrifices of “sun stones” occurred around the same time a volcanic eruption in 2900 BC dimmed the sun throughout Northern Europe, according to a new study.
edition.cnn.com
January 24, 2025 at 4:44 PM
I commented on a very interesting study on CNN!
edition.cnn.com/2025/01/23/s...
#sunstones #stonehenge #neolithic #stonehenge
edition.cnn.com/2025/01/23/s...
#sunstones #stonehenge #neolithic #stonehenge
Back in the lab at CNRS in Orleans with glass beads. They will be analysed and maybe we have a few of Mesopotamian glass from the middle Bronze Age 🤞🏻
#archaeology #bronzeage #glass #lovemyjob #denmark #scandinavia
#archaeology #bronzeage #glass #lovemyjob #denmark #scandinavia
January 23, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Back in the lab at CNRS in Orleans with glass beads. They will be analysed and maybe we have a few of Mesopotamian glass from the middle Bronze Age 🤞🏻
#archaeology #bronzeage #glass #lovemyjob #denmark #scandinavia
#archaeology #bronzeage #glass #lovemyjob #denmark #scandinavia
Went to #lymeregis to go on a #fossilhunt
Great bonus was the Victorian junk that came from an old landfill. Found some nice pieces.
I’ll be back 🤩
#fossil #mudlarking #ammonite
Great bonus was the Victorian junk that came from an old landfill. Found some nice pieces.
I’ll be back 🤩
#fossil #mudlarking #ammonite
December 8, 2024 at 4:02 PM
Went to #lymeregis to go on a #fossilhunt
Great bonus was the Victorian junk that came from an old landfill. Found some nice pieces.
I’ll be back 🤩
#fossil #mudlarking #ammonite
Great bonus was the Victorian junk that came from an old landfill. Found some nice pieces.
I’ll be back 🤩
#fossil #mudlarking #ammonite
Sitting under the oak trees North Bovey in the outskirts of the #DartmoorNationalPark we find a Celtic cross.
Nobody knows where the cross was originally placed but it was not here. From a nearby brook some say.
The age of the cross is not certain but may be very old.
#archaeology
Nobody knows where the cross was originally placed but it was not here. From a nearby brook some say.
The age of the cross is not certain but may be very old.
#archaeology
December 1, 2024 at 9:31 AM
Sitting under the oak trees North Bovey in the outskirts of the #DartmoorNationalPark we find a Celtic cross.
Nobody knows where the cross was originally placed but it was not here. From a nearby brook some say.
The age of the cross is not certain but may be very old.
#archaeology
Nobody knows where the cross was originally placed but it was not here. From a nearby brook some say.
The age of the cross is not certain but may be very old.
#archaeology
New Discovery in Denmark.
A massive and exceptionally well-preserved weapon sacrifice consisting of more than a hundred lances, spears, and swords, as well as a very rare chainmail shirt.
And I visited 🤘🏻
www.vejlemuseerne.dk/udstillinger...
A massive and exceptionally well-preserved weapon sacrifice consisting of more than a hundred lances, spears, and swords, as well as a very rare chainmail shirt.
And I visited 🤘🏻
www.vejlemuseerne.dk/udstillinger...
November 27, 2024 at 7:31 PM
New Discovery in Denmark.
A massive and exceptionally well-preserved weapon sacrifice consisting of more than a hundred lances, spears, and swords, as well as a very rare chainmail shirt.
And I visited 🤘🏻
www.vejlemuseerne.dk/udstillinger...
A massive and exceptionally well-preserved weapon sacrifice consisting of more than a hundred lances, spears, and swords, as well as a very rare chainmail shirt.
And I visited 🤘🏻
www.vejlemuseerne.dk/udstillinger...
New #bronzeage find from Denmark.
A wetland deposit including a bend bronze sword with iron rivets and a variety of bronze ornaments. Nordic Bronze Age period 6 - c. 500 BC
#romu #roskildemuseum #archaeology
via.ritzau.dk/pressemeddel...
A wetland deposit including a bend bronze sword with iron rivets and a variety of bronze ornaments. Nordic Bronze Age period 6 - c. 500 BC
#romu #roskildemuseum #archaeology
via.ritzau.dk/pressemeddel...
Sjældent bronzealderfund fra Værebro Ådal dukker op som detektorfund | ROMU
Kostbare offerfund fra slutningen af bronzealderen dukkede i foråret op ved en mose omkring Veksø. Blandt andet blev der fundet en halsring og et særligt formgivet sværd. Bronzealderen er en periode, ...
via.ritzau.dk
November 26, 2024 at 9:44 AM
New #bronzeage find from Denmark.
A wetland deposit including a bend bronze sword with iron rivets and a variety of bronze ornaments. Nordic Bronze Age period 6 - c. 500 BC
#romu #roskildemuseum #archaeology
via.ritzau.dk/pressemeddel...
A wetland deposit including a bend bronze sword with iron rivets and a variety of bronze ornaments. Nordic Bronze Age period 6 - c. 500 BC
#romu #roskildemuseum #archaeology
via.ritzau.dk/pressemeddel...
A magical amulet from the Danish National Museum.
It’s made of “bloodstone” and inscribed with :
ABLANATHANALBA that prob. translates to “you are my father” + add. 7 letters which are used in rituals in early Christian magic communities like the gnostics. Find location unknown but prob. Italy.
It’s made of “bloodstone” and inscribed with :
ABLANATHANALBA that prob. translates to “you are my father” + add. 7 letters which are used in rituals in early Christian magic communities like the gnostics. Find location unknown but prob. Italy.
November 21, 2024 at 7:23 AM
A magical amulet from the Danish National Museum.
It’s made of “bloodstone” and inscribed with :
ABLANATHANALBA that prob. translates to “you are my father” + add. 7 letters which are used in rituals in early Christian magic communities like the gnostics. Find location unknown but prob. Italy.
It’s made of “bloodstone” and inscribed with :
ABLANATHANALBA that prob. translates to “you are my father” + add. 7 letters which are used in rituals in early Christian magic communities like the gnostics. Find location unknown but prob. Italy.
Blue glass 💙
A beautiful #Roman blue glass bowl, recovered during excavations in the city of Nijmegen (Netherlands). Not only is it a very lovely piece of glass, but it was actually found completely intact - not even a crack! - which is remarkable for a piece of 2000 year old glassware! AncientBlueSky
November 18, 2024 at 8:22 PM
Blue glass 💙
So interesting - and one might add - lovely body positivity back in the upper Palaeolithic 🤓
A new Palaeolithic female figurine from Piatra Neamț, Romania sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
November 18, 2024 at 2:02 PM
So interesting - and one might add - lovely body positivity back in the upper Palaeolithic 🤓
Precisely 🙈
Mind the gap.
#Archaeologists are excited about #dinosaurs as much as everybody else - but we don't dig them. Not literally.
That's where our colleagues in #palaeontology come in - there's a good sixty-four million years of evolutionary history between the Flintstones and their pets. 🏺🦕
#Archaeologists are excited about #dinosaurs as much as everybody else - but we don't dig them. Not literally.
That's where our colleagues in #palaeontology come in - there's a good sixty-four million years of evolutionary history between the Flintstones and their pets. 🏺🦕
November 18, 2024 at 8:57 AM
Precisely 🙈
November 18, 2024 at 8:48 AM
It’s been 10 years since we got the first results from the Danish glass beads, but great that my research still is live and kicking out there!
Something lovely for the weekend!
Beautiful blue glass beads from the late Bronze Age.
Ploughed up by a farmer in Denmark in 1885, analysis shows the beads were made in Mesopotamia, pointing to long-distance trade in luxury goods some 3,000 years ago.
📷 National Museum of Denmark
#Archaeology
Beautiful blue glass beads from the late Bronze Age.
Ploughed up by a farmer in Denmark in 1885, analysis shows the beads were made in Mesopotamia, pointing to long-distance trade in luxury goods some 3,000 years ago.
📷 National Museum of Denmark
#Archaeology
November 17, 2024 at 8:28 PM
It’s been 10 years since we got the first results from the Danish glass beads, but great that my research still is live and kicking out there!