The Faroe Islands were colonised much earlier than previously
believed, and it wasn’t by the Vikings, according to new research.
New archaeological evidence places human colonisation in the
4th to 6th centuries AD, at least 300-500 years earlier than previously
demonstrated.
The research, directed by Dr Mike J Church from Durham
University and Símun V Arge from the National Museum of the Faroe Islands as
part of the multidisciplinary project “Heart of the Atlantic”, is published in
the Quaternary Science Reviews.