Archeologists uncover medieval "Vampire cemetery" in Poland

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A chilling find has been made in Poland: at least 17 skeletons buried with the skulls severed and placed between the knees or hands. That, say archaeologists, is how vampires used to be interred, to stop them rising from the dead.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeit...12363.html

The stakes probably rotted away though.
Besides, archaeologists don't say that, Bram Stokers does.
Dude, he has explained the whole ritual in the book, the beheading, the filling of the severed head with garlic, the staking of the heart, and the sealing of the coffin with a special ritual.