Author Archives: Jules William Press

There is also evidence of deliberately filed teeth on some 130 male Viking skulls. By JENNIFER OUELLETTE  German archaeologists discovered that the skulls of three medieval Viking women found on the Swedish island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea showed evidence of an unusual procedure to elongate their skulls. The process gave them an unusualContinue reading “Three skulls of medieval Viking women were deliberately elongated”

By Tom Metcalfe The skull modifications were found on the skeletons of three women buried on Gotland almost 1,000 years ago. The elongated, cone-shaped skulls of Viking Age women buried on the Baltic island of Gotland may be evidence of trading contacts with the Black Sea region, a new study finds. The women’s skulls were mostContinue reading “Viking Age women with cone-shaped skulls likely learned head-binding practice from far-flung region”