“Unearthing the Past: The Stunning Face of a 1,000-Year-Old Viking Warrior Revealed—What Secrets Does Her Expression Hold?”
Eloisa Noble/National GeographicElla Al-Shamahi argued that a long-distance, arrow-centric approach was likely employed by female fighters.
Dr. Caroline Erolin, who worked on the reconstruction and lectures at the University of Dundee in the Center for Anatomy and Human Identification, made it very clear that the results are not perfect. The process began by adding muscle tissue and then layering skin atop.
“The resulting reconstruction is never 100 percent accurate, but is enough to generate recognition from someone who knew them well in real life,” she explained.
As for our retroactive efforts to employ modern tools to observe older ones, and those who carried them, Al-Shamahi believes this is “transforming” our collective knowledge on this particular era. The same technology used to recreate this woman’s face was also used to recreate her grave.
In the forthcoming National Geographic documentary, the researcher is shown traveling around Scandinavia to analyze Viking burial sites and using these modern tools to reconstruct their contents. This will include a segment on the aforementioned Birka Warrior discovered in Sweden.
Though there remain adamant opponents who insist women couldn’t have been warriors during that particular era, Al-Shamahi goes as far to suggest that the Birka Warrior “could have been a military commander.”
The expert acknowledges that bone density and muscle mass could’ve been fatal advantages that male warriors had over women — and that this is likely the root of the widespread disbelief.
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