9 ways people have modified their bodies since the dawn of time, from foot binding to castration

Many types of body modification date back hundreds or thousands of years, revealing our ancient ancestors were not that different from us.
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Vikings May Have Used Body Modification as a ‘Sign of Identification’

An artistic representation of the Gotlant burial of a Viking-era woman with a modified skull Current Swedish Archaeology / Mirosław Kuźma / Matthias Toplak Examples of artificially altered bones ...