Published in Antiquity, this paper reports that Greenlandic settlers during the early medieval period had a mix of British, Irish, and Scandinavian ancestries. This finding is based on 3D-shape analyses of human crania from Scandinavia, Britain, Ireland, and a Norse colony in Greenland.

First author Kim Plomp is an Associate Professor of the UP School of Archaeology and head of its Human Osteoarchaeology, Palaeopathology, and Evolution (HOPE) Laboratory.

Read the paper here.