In Iron Age Scandinavia, the remains of people with injuries were left in settlements, not buried in cemeteries — study
Archaeologists from the National Museum of Denmark and the University of Leicester examined the remains of people who in the Iron Age and the Viking Age were not buried in cemeteries but left in settlements — under house floors, in pits, wells, and postholes. Nearly one in sixteen of them had traces of injuries on their bones, and most of these injuries, according to the scientists, were inflicted intentionally.
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