“[The grooves] might have functioned as a rite of initiation and sign of identification ... already in the Viking Age, before the existence of formalized guilds.” The rarer skull modifications ...

During the Viking Age, Vikings didn't just battle ... signs of hardening of the mastoid process, a part of the skull behind the ear. Sign up for Chip Chick's newsletter and get stories like ...

About a year ago saw the publication of research based on the examination of a large number of teeth from the Viking Age population of Varnhem ... in the different parts of the skull. "There was much ...