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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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Viking Age women with cone-shaped skulls likely learned head-binding practice from far-flung region

The skull modifications were found on the skeletons of three women buried on Gotland almost 1,000 years ago. ....

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