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An archaeologist's flaming-arrow experiments argue against the Viking cremation at sea
Live Science asked three researchers for evidence that Vikings lit funeral boats adrift with flaming arrows. The archaeological record cannot answer the question, so the case rests on written accounts and on one archaeologist's burn tests.
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