Ben Raffield, Neil Price, Mark Collard, and (Claire Greenlow)

Cited In:

  • Raffield, Ben , Mark Collard, and Neil Price. "Male-biased operational sex rations and the Viking pehnomenon: an evoultionary anthropological perspective on Late Iron Age Scandinavian raiding." Evolution and Human Behavior, 2016.
  • Raffield, Ben, Claire Greenlow, Neil Price, and Mark Collard. "Ingroup identification, identity fusion and the formation of Viking war bands." World Archaeology 48, no. 1 (2016).

Used For:

  • Raffield’s article is one of the most interesting and thought provoking pieces of scholarship to have emerged in the study of Medieval Scandinavian during recent years. Along with Mark Collard and Neil Price, Raffield has created an extremely convincing argument that wealth stratification and polygamy produced conditions which made young Nordic males have to seek alternative forms of employment in order to find wives. For this project his work is used to illustrate a social and economic reason why Scandinavian males may have left home and taken up mercenary employment.