Vikings & Archaeology: The mystery of tortured bodies:
Researchers are increasingly coming across traces of how the Scandinavians of the Viking Age changed their ...
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New Evidence of Viking-Age Body Modification on GotlandAt Havor, a 55- to 60-year-old woman was buried with a skull apparently deformed during infancy.
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- The woman’s skull from Havor was apparently elongated unnaturally by bandaging during infancy.
- Since 1989, researchers have identified about 130 Viking-Age skulls with horizontal incisions in the front teeth; where sex could be determined, they belonged to men.
- Lukas Kerk and Matthias S. Toplak consider interpretations as slave marking or a warrior sign archaeologically questionable because grave goods did not differ.
- The two archaeologists instead suggest that the incisions, found only in adults, may have marked membership in a merchant group; 46 of the skulls came from Kopparsvik.
One must really apply pressure.— Matthias S. Toplak, explaining the tooth-kerb technique and the difficulty of replicating it; he notes that laypeople could not easily imitate it without causing serious damage.
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