Scandinavia

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  

  The Indigenous Sami Culture Shaped this Novelist's Fiction

  Ann-Helén Laestadius grew up among the Sámi, an Indigenous people living near the Arctic Circle, in Europe. Her fiction has brought the long-running conflict between the Sami and the Swedish government, and the racism and violence endured by the Sami, to the forefront of public debate. 

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  10/19/2022
  

  Racism and Sweden's Right Turn

  by Tobias Hübinette

  The Sweden Democrats have a long lineage on the far-right fringes of Swedish politics beginning with postwar Nazi sympathizers, but have recently begun to capitalize on economic disaffection by invoking immigration restriction as the solution to perceived national decline.

• SOURCE: SciMag
  03-05-13
  

  Sunstone Unearthed From Shipwreck

  In 1592, a British ship sank near the island of Alderney in the English Channel carrying an odd piece of cargo: a small, angular crystal. Though cloudy and scuffed up from 4 centuries at the bottom of the sea, its precise geometry and proximity to the ship's navigation equipment caught the eye of a diver exploring the wreckage. Once it was brought back to land, a few European scientists began to suspect the mysterious object might be a calcite crystal, which they believe Vikings and other European seafarers used to navigate before the introduction of the magnetic compass....

• SOURCE: Fox News
  2-13-13
  

  Battered skulls reveal violence among stone-age women

  Stone Age farmers lived through routine violence, and women weren't spared from its toll, a new study finds.The analysis discovered that up to 1 in 6 skulls exhumed in Scandinavia from the late Stone Age — between about 6,000 and 3,700 years ago — had nasty head injuries. And contrary to findings from mass gravesites of the period, women were equally likely to be victims of deadly blows, according to the study published in the February issue of the American Journal of Physical Anthropology....