Burial pit Viking had filed teeth

I can only read as fas as FILING YOUR TEETH... We need emoticons for "Horrified", "Gives me the heeby-jeebies" and " **** ".

Very interesting article. I hope archaeologists are able to find out what the purpose of filing teeth is.

Gotta admit, the mere thought of filing teeth makes me feel ill However, im sure some people may consider it nowadays, having observed piercings etc some people are happy to display

I wonder how common this filing of teeth was back then? Maybe it made the warrior able to do more damage when he bit you in combat. Bite out big chunks of flesh in hand to hand combat. Sounds like they all met a sticky end too. Captured - some wounded in combat perhaps, or possibly abused as prisoners - then decapitated and chucked into a mass grave. You still see this kind of thing, even today. Interesting

Man that would have to hurt. Vikings were some tough old boys

OUCH! that had to be painful. thanks for posting.

This is old... vikings were quite evolved before rest of Europe after all. Vikings with fillings in teats skeletons were not to unusual, they tend to talk about it at museums. Edit to say: Normal reason to fill their teats was assumed to be filling holes. Wow, they filled holes at that time and age, so creepy... no one have though about it before, only future humans know how to evolve. OMG.. And to think that mayans did surgery for 4000 years ago, with almost the same kind of tools as today... so creepy.

I am 67 now but as a child we tested each other to see who could take the most . I won when I had my dennist drill and fill 3 cavities at age 16. Pain is a state of mind and anyone who wants to can take more than you would think. Remember the POW'S in Vietnam.

I personally think theses guys are making too much of this particular find. Although speculation is a lot of fun, most anomalies of this sort turn out to be from a mundane act. Like stretching and smoothing sinew maybe. Had the teeth been filed to a point or serrated edge that certainly would have something much different. But these horizontal grooves really serve no purpose that I can see. If it was done deliberately it had to be for some social reason, like a clan tradition or something along that line. But it certainly does raise a some questions none the less and I am certain, as we speak,... [More]