Violently killed child was buried beneath a 2,500-year-old Scandinavian house floor

A new study of unusual human remains from Iron and Viking Age Scandinavia shows how violence and death shaped daily life in complex ways. Researchers examined 12 individuals whose remains were found outside normal cemeteries. Their bones came from domestic spaces such as longhouses, pits, wells, postholes, and hearths. Many of the remains were incomplete […]

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