The Thule Inuit people and Norse both hunted walrus in the High Arctic in the 13th century, according to a new study.

Hundreds of years before Christopher Columbus arrived in North America, Viking Age Norse people may have encountered ...

The study is now published in Science Advances. In Medieval Europe, there was an enormous demand for elite products, among them—walrus ivory. With the Vikings playing a vital part in the ivory ...

Vikings played a significant role in the global walrus ivory trade, traveling long distances and interacting with Arctic ...

Viking Age Norse people seeking walrus ivory in the High Arctic may have encountered Indigenous North Americans hundreds of years before Christopher Columbus "discovered" the continent ...

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) introduced the Alaska’s Right to Ivory Sales and Tradition (ARTIST) Act and ...

New studies show Norse Vikings and Arctic Native Americans (or Indigenous peoples) traded walrus ivory in Greenland.

Recently discovered evidence, however, indicates Norse sailors weren’t only the first Europeans to likely meet Indigenous societies—genetic analysis of walrus DNA indicates their ivory trade ...

In Medieval Europe, there was an enormous demand for elite products, among them - walrus ivory. With the Vikings playing a vital part in the ivory trade, this drove the Norse expansion into the ...

Here’s how it works. A dogged search for walrus ivory may have brought two unlikely cultures together — the Thule Inuits of the Arctic and the Norse of Greenland — hundreds of years before ...

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