Head binding to change the shape of a baby’s head is surely one of the most radical forms of socially imposed body modification. Tightly binding an infant’s head produces highly unusual skull patterns ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Artificially elongated skull of a woman buried in the 11th century on the Baltic island of Gotland. The elongated, cone-shaped ...

The elongated skull of a person who lived in the Colca Valley of highland Peru, where two peoples, the Collaguas and Cavanas, practiced head-binding from about 1100 to 1450. The Best of Our Knowledge ...

Cornell University anthropologist Matt Velasco analyzed the remains of one group known as the Collaguas. The skulls dated from 1100 A.D. to 1450 A.D., a time period known for being riddled with ...

Tightly binding an infant’s head produces highly unusual skull patterns that anthropologists call artificial cranial deformation. Because the most striking and best-known examples are found in South ...

The skull modifications were found on the skeletons of three women buried on Gotland almost 1,000 years ago. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...