Study: Three skulls of medieval Viking women were deliberately elongated
There is also evidence of deliberately filed teeth on some 130 male Viking skulls.
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There is also evidence of deliberately filed teeth on some 130 male Viking skulls.
AN ANCIENT set of teeth from the Viking era has revealed signs of a brutal "initiation ritual" that marked their social identities.Damnnig new evidenc
Humans have modified their bodies in various ways throughout history, tattooing, piercing, scarring, implanting, or even deforming parts of their anatomy.
The skull modifications were found on the skeletons of three women buried on Gotland almost 1,000 years ago.
A recent study analyzes Scandinavian examples of filed teeth and elongated skulls dating to the Viking Age