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boasts a deep crack stretched diagonally from the bottom-left portion of the lower jaw up to the hollow cavity where the nose would have once been. In addition, several teeth seem to be missing, likely knocked out by the force of the attack. Only one thing could have caused such damage, says Moraes: a brutal axe to the face.
Moraes speculates that the man was one of 1,800 local farmers who died during The Battle of Gotland, which was led by Denmark's King Valdemar Atterdag to gain control over the sparsely populated Swedish island. The man would have likely been attacked because he did not have the warrior skills to defend himself.
"I hope people see what a conflict really is," Moraes said in the email. "This facial approximation is a reminder of what happens."This article presents the forensic facial approximation work of a victim of the Battle of Gotland, which took place in 1361 on the island of the same name, located in Sweden.
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