Elongated skulls discovered on Peru’s south coast on the Paracas desert peninsula in 1928 CE.
— Dr. M.F. Khan (@Dr_TheHistories) November 19, 2022
Discovered by a Peruvian archaeologist, Julio Tello - He recovered more than 300 elongated skulls. #drthehistories pic.twitter.com/CNgus3ERTi
Looks like the parents of this Peruvian tribe bound their babies' heads with stiff turbon-like bandage, even wood slats bound to the baby's head, to make it grow into a cone. Purportedly for distinction, to have others recognize the tribe or the class of people as elite or unique.
Artificial cranial deformations usually involve tightly binding a baby’s squishy head with bandages or clamping it into between wooden planks in order to distort its growth. This is just one insight into one culture’s use of elongated skulls, so it doesn’t necessarily represent all instances of it. After all, it occurred in countless different groups throughout history.
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