Researchers are not sure yet, but there is a theory that these Nordic people are elite fighters.
From 200 1 to 2005, Caroline Arcini, an orthopedic expert from the Swedish National Heritage Committee, examined 557 Viking skeletons from 800 to 1050.
She found deep horizontal grooves on the upper incisors of 24 bones.
The bones found in several Viking cemeteries in southern Sweden and Denmark all belong to men.
These deep traces on enamel often appear in pairs or in threes, which seem to be decorative rather than functional.
She also noticed that these marks were very well made, which may have been made by a skilled person.
A beheaded Viking soldier found in a mass grave in Dorset, England, also had file marks on his front teeth, which was found in a mass grave in Dorset during the Viking era.
(Photo: Oxford Archaeology) Archaeologists first stumbled across Dorset Tomb in June 2009.
5 1 skull was found in an area of the tomb.
In another area, 54 bodies were randomly discarded.
The local Anglo-Saxons may have preserved the three lost heads as trophies.
According to the remains, these people were all male Vikings, most of whom were aged 25 or below, and were killed between 9 10 and 1030.
The Viking discovery is the first historical example of orthodontic ceremony in Europe.
Scholars say that the Vikings may have learned this from foreign cultures.
William Fitzhugh, a Viking expert at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC, said: "Vikings are famous for their greedy habits, but until now, we have always considered this from the perspective of gold, silver and trophies, rather than facial decoration. Fitzhugh said that the Vikings may have realized this when they met West Africans on their way to Spain and the Mediterranean.
Fittju added: "However, tooth modification in Africa is another type, and teeth are filed into dots."
Achini said, "The only place I know where people have similar horizontal file marks on their teeth ... is the Great Lakes in the United States, now Illinois, Arizona and Georgia. So far, apart from the traces of documents, nothing has been found to distinguish these people from others living in the Viking era. " Lewis Chess: A guard (car) bites his shield in the form of a mad eye and fights with anger.
(Photo: British Museum), why they remold their teeth is still a mystery, but these marks probably represent some kind of achievement or status, said Fitzgerald of the Smithsonian Institution. Part of the reason may be aesthetic.
In fact, only a few male soldiers were found to have their teeth filled, which may also indicate that they belong to the feared elite Viking warrior-Berserker. Above: The Swedish Vikings have filed off their front teeth.
British Museum/Lund University.
Do these teeth with files and grooves belong to a Viking elite warrior? ? Author: Thor Lanskog was first published in Thor News and reprinted with permission.
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