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Vikings May Have Used Body Modification as a ‘Sign of Identification’

A recent study analyzes Scandinavian examples of filed teeth and elongated skulls dating to the Viking Age By Sonja Anderson Examples of artificially altered bones belonging to island-dwelling Vikings may be examples of purposeful body modifications, according to a study published in the journal Current Swedish Archaeology. Researchers think they may have been part of socialContinue reading “Vikings May Have Used Body Modification as a ‘Sign of Identification’”