How Vikings modified their bodies. The practice of filing teeth, particularly the incisors, was a widespread phenomenon in Viking Age Gotland. The authors of the new study report around 130 male ...

Vikings filed horizontal grooves into their teeth to show they were merchants, according to a new study. Making modifications to the human body is nothing new, and researchers have known for over ...

Over 100 miles south of Stockholm, Sweden sits the island of Gotland. For decades, historians have considered the island an important source of information about Viking culture due to its hundreds ...

But there is evidence of body modification. Archaeologists in the 1980s noted "strange marks" on the teeth of male Viking Age skulls that looked like the teeth had been deliberately filed.Some 130 ...

The skull of a male individual from a grave in Gotland, Sweden, featuring filed teeth. Lisa Hartzell/© SHM CC BY 2.5 SE. While both forms of body modification have received significant attention ...

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.

Many male Viking burials on the Swedish isle of Gotland contain filed teeth. Current Swedish Archaeology / SHM / Lisa Hartzell SHM 2007-06-13 (CC BY 2.5 SE) The skulls in ...

For instance, at Gotland’s Viking-Age Kopparsvik cemetery, almost all skeletons with modified teeth were found in an area of the graveyard that was possibly reserved for non-local individuals, ...

FACT: History is full of people with pointy heads (on purpose) By Rachel Feltman. While examining remains found on the Baltic island of Gotland, which was once home to many wealthy viking ...

History is unavoidable on the Swedish island of Gotland, where the medieval walls of its capital, Visby, still stand. So it made sense that on Nov. 9, Allmänna Sången Visby, a local choir ...