The article promises a reassessment of the 10th-century chambered weapon grave excavated in the 1870s and subject to revaluation as containing an adult female based on osteological and aDNA evidence. The assertive 2017 ‘confirmed by’ title which seemed both stark and problematic to some has now been replaced with a more conciliatory question mark: ‘Viking warrior women?’. The pitch of the new piece is significantly different. This post aims to build on these other commentaries by offering a critical perspective on the ongoing academic and popular dimensions of the research. Part 9: an assessment of the media portrayals of warrior women by actresses and their make-up within LOTL and Doctor Who, set against other filmic and TV female warriors.Part 8: my ‘reviews the reviews’ of ‘Legends of the Lost with Megan Fox’.
Part 7: a review of ‘Legends of the Lost with Megan Fox’: the first TV show featuring Bj581 and other evidence for ‘warrior women’ in the Viking world. Part 6: a discussion of my responses from the public to my talk about Viking female warriors. Part 5: my review and queries about the AJPA article. Part 4: a commentary on academic commentaries on the AJPA article. Part 3: an assessment of digital comments adjoining media stories by members of the public. Part 2: a review of the use of images of Viking warrior women in news stories about the AJPA article. Part 1: a discussion of the open-access Sept 2017 AJPA publication, its media reception, and its popular appeal. Further still, since the research combines multiple strands of evidence – archaeological, osteological and aDNA – it prompts reflections on the interdisciplinarity of early medieval burial archaeology.īefore I proceed, here’s a quick summary of my 9 previous posts: This peer-reviewed academic journal article is by the same research team, but this time lead-authored by Professor Neil Price. This research is very important because it is interesting and thought-provoking in itself, but also because it has become an unprecedentedly high-profile case study in public engagement with early medieval mortuary archaeology. 581’, published in Antiquity in February 2019. Having previously discussed the significance, appeal and academic/media/popular reception of the 2017 AJPA article “A female Viking warrior confirmed by genomics”, here I review the academic argumentation and the reception of the follow-up journal article: ‘Viking warrior women? Reassessing Birka chamber grave Bj.
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