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For Immediate Release						May 7, 1997

Viking Settlements in Scotland Discussed in Lawrence Archaeology Lecture      


	APPLETON, WIS.  Viking settlements dating from 800 A.D on the Scottish
isles of Orkney and Shetland will be the focus of the Archaeological Institute
of America lecture, "Skullsplitters, Saints, and Scots:  Vikings in the
Northern Isles."  

	Barbara Scott, visiting assistant professor of anthropology at Lawrence
University, will discuss numerous Viking archaeological sites including houses
and ship burials still visible on the isles today on Thursday, May 15 at 7:30
p.m. in the Wriston Art Center auditorium on the Lawrence campus.  The event is
free and open to the public.

	ScottŐs slide-illustrated talk will examine life in the Earldom of
Orkney under the Norwegian, and later, Danish crowns, based on both the
archaeological evidence about the Vikings and a medieval Icelandic saga which 
contains colorful accounts of events and important people through the first 
300 years of the earldom.

	A specialist in Viking and Norse settlement across the North Atlantic,
Scott earned her Ph.D. in interdisciplinary archaeological studies at the
University of Minnesota.