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X-WR-CALDESC:Follow an epic story of the Viking Age that traces the histori
 cal trail of an ancient piece of jewelry found in a Viking grave in Englan
 d to its origins thousands of miles east in India.\n\nAn acclaimed bioarch
 aeologist\, Catrine Jarman has used cutting-edge forensic techniques to sp
 ark her investigation into the history of the Vikings who came to rest in 
 British soil. By examining teeth that are now over one thousand years old\
 , she can determine childhood diet—and thereby where a person was likely b
 orn. With radiocarbon dating\, she can ascertain a death-date down to the 
 range of a few years. And her research offers enlightening new visions of 
 the roles of women and children in Viking culture.\n\nThree years ago\, a 
 Carnelian bead came into her temporary possession. River Kings sees her tr
 ace the path of this ancient piece of jewelry back to eighth-century Baghd
 ad and India\, discovering along the way that the Vikings’ route was far m
 ore varied than we might think—that with them came people from the Middle 
 East\, not just Scandinavia\, and that the reason for this unexpected inte
 gration between the Eastern and Western worlds may well have been a slave 
 trade running through the Silk Road\, all the way to Britain.\n\nTold as a
  riveting history of the Vikings and the methods we use to understand them
 \, this is a major reassessment of the fierce\, often-mythologized voyager
 s of the North—and of the global medieval world as we know it.
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DESCRIPTION:Follow an epic story of the Viking Age that traces the historic
 al trail of an ancient piece of jewelry found in a Viking grave in England
  to its origins thousands of miles east in India.\n\nAn acclaimed bioarcha
 eologist\, Catrine Jarman has used cutting-edge forensic techniques to spa
 rk her investigation into the history of the Vikings who came to rest in B
 ritish soil. By examining teeth that are now over one thousand years old\,
  she can determine childhood diet—and thereby where a person was likely bo
 rn. With radiocarbon dating\, she can ascertain a death-date down to the r
 ange of a few years. And her research offers enlightening new visions of t
 he roles of women and children in Viking culture.\n\nThree years ago\, a C
 arnelian bead came into her temporary possession. River Kings sees her tra
 ce the path of this ancient piece of jewelry back to eighth-century Baghda
 d and India\, discovering along the way that the Vikings’ route was far mo
 re varied than we might think—that with them came people from the Middle E
 ast\, not just Scandinavia\, and that the reason for this unexpected integ
 ration between the Eastern and Western worlds may well have been a slave t
 rade running through the Silk Road\, all the way to Britain.\n\nTold as a 
 riveting history of the Vikings and the methods we use to understand them\
 , this is a major reassessment of the fierce\, often-mythologized voyagers
  of the North—and of the global medieval world as we know it.
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SUMMARY:Read Around the World Book Club: River Kings: A New History of the 
 Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Roads Book by Cat Jarman
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