'Full-on berserker mode': Archaeologists solve mystery of medieval soldiers with gruesome square holes in their skull

Дата публикации: 14-08-2026 16:00:00

A new analysis of skulls from a 14th-century battle in Sweden reveals a spiked club inflicted the death blow. BERLIN — Archaeologists have finally …

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BERLIN — Archaeologists have finally determined which weapon caused mysterious square holes in the skulls of soldiers who died in the 1361 Battle of Visby. Close analysis of the bone fractures and cutting-edge motion-capture technology revealed that medieval combatants worked in groups to methodically incapacitate their opponents and then deliver a final, fatal blow with a spiked club.

"We have to understand the complexity of medieval combat; it's not a simple process," Patrick Randolph-Quinney, a biological anthropologist at Uppsala University in Sweden, said in a research presentation Aug. 5 at the 25th European Paleopathology Association meeting in Berlin. The research has not yet been published in a peer-reviewed journal.

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