A new genomic study tries to see if there’s a correlation between artificial cranial deformation and migration following the collapse of the Roman Empire.
Fossils expand the known distribution of the ancient practice beyond Europe and Central Asia
In a handful of medieval Bavarian farming hamlets populated mostly by blue-eyed blondes, more than a dozen women with dark hair, dark eyes, and unusual elongated skulls would have stood out.
A study of 211 skulls from a pre-Inca society suggests head-shaping developed over time
The remains of a 1.5-year-old boy with a pronounced elongation of the skull have been found by archaeologists at a 2,000-year-old burial site in Crimea. Russian archaeologists say that the skull deformation indicates that this boy was marked out to be a warrior.
A 1600-year-old elongated skull of an upper class woman was discovered in a Mexico ruins.
Tunupa is the local word for the creator God, and here on this mountain, in caves, we see the skeletal remains of beings with very large, elongated heads!
