Incan Skulls, Cranial Deformation
The Incas practiced cranial deformation. They achieved this by wrapping
tight cloth straps around the heads of newborns in order to alter the
shape of their soft skulls into a more conical form; this cranial
deformation was made to distinguish social classes of the communities,
with only the nobility having cranial deformation. Source:
Wikipedia, Inca Empire.
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Elongated Skulls exhibited in the Incan Museum, Cuzco. Source:
YouTube.
Inca Museum, Cuzco
The collection includes ceramics, textiles, metal and gold work, skulls
that have been deformed by trepanning, and tomb containing several
mummies.
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