Decapitated Slaves Found Buried in Viking Graves
October 30th, 2013, 19:16 GMT · By Laura Sinpetru
Decapitated Slaves Found Buried in Viking Graves
Some time ago, archaeologists carrying out excavations in Norway stumbled upon several Viking graves containing the remains of a total of 10 individuals. As it turns out, some of the people buried in this location were slaves, whereas the remainder were their masters.
Detailing their findings, the archaeologist working on this project explain that, when they first unearthed the remains of these people, they were quite surprised that some of the bodies had been decapitated before being buried, while others had been laid to rest intact.
Wishing to make head and tail of this peculiarity, they carried out a more detailed analysis of the bodies.
They found that, when compared to the people whose heads were still attached to the rest of their bodies at the time of their burial, the decapitated individuals used to eat a different and rather poor diet.
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