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Researchers have highlighted a unique way that some Vikings permanently marked their bodies, perhaps as a way of secretly identifying themselves with a specific group. Archaeologists examined the skulls of 130 men who were buried across the Viking world between the tenth and twelfth centuries and who had strange horizontal striations on their teeth. The majority of the men were found in the Kopparsvik cemetery on the Swedish island of Gotland, which was an important trading center. (See “Hoard
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