We welcome back friend of the show archaeologist Martin Rundkvist who talked to us earlier this year about skulls in our episode The Headless Norsemen. This time we catch up with his latest archaeological work and finds from the Swedish island of Gotland.

As you may know from our previous episode with author Octavia Randolph, Gotland is an island that was critical for Viking Age travel back and forth across the Baltic Sea. But as Martin tells us, based on his team’s finds which span an impressive amount of time from the Bronze Age in 2,000 BCE all the way up to the medieval period of the 1100s CE, Gotland has a very deep history indeed.

If you regularly just listen to our podcast, you’ll want to watch this one instead to see some of the cool artifacts which have been recovered. It brought to mind for us the interesting topic of cultural objects and relics, why they are important, and whether they will matter in our future. Fascinating stuff.

You can read the full archaeology field report here.

Thanks Martin. Please come back again any time!

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