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One of the hundreds of elongated skulls that were discovered in 1928 at Paracas Peninsula in Peru. Cranial deformation was practiced by the Paracas civilization (800-100 BCE) by tightly wrapping the head in cloth, during the first few years of life, in order to elongate the cranium

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[-] Norgur@kbin.social 23 points 2 years ago
[-] dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Crump with me sweety

[-] Ulvain@sh.itjust.works 21 points 2 years ago

Forget the shape, is no one going to mention they found skulls with WRITING ON THEM?!

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 years ago

You get your baby's Head elongated for free if you let advertisers write on them.

[-] bingbong@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 years ago
[-] DavidGarcia@feddit.nl 1 points 2 years ago

it would have been even longer if the magick spell had said B I G C H O N G O S.

[-] Mr_Fish@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago

What about the droid attack on the wookies?

[-] lostme@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago

Xenomorphs in Peru definitely wasn't on my bingo card

[-] JCreazy@midwest.social 10 points 2 years ago

But what was the reason they did this? Did they think it looked good?

[-] Pilkins@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

Talking out my ass here so please research and verify, but at least for the woman with elongated necks, it was originally to make them unattractive to men of other tribes. Over time, this turned into a specific beauty standard for their own tribe.

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago
[-] tpihkal@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

It makes me uncomfortable tbh.

Probably makes them uncomfortable, too, especially the neck muscles.

[-] ARk@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

Is something like this hereditary? Asking for a friend.

[-] rockerface@lemm.ee 13 points 2 years ago

no, last time I checked, body mutilation isn't hereditary

[-] dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

No it only happens if you watch Rick And Morty plus Big Bang Theory back to back

[-] bingbong@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago
[-] DavidGarcia@feddit.nl 1 points 2 years ago

There's a fringe "researcher" (lost ancient civilizations type) called Brien Forester that claims some of these are natural based on their foramen magnum (big hole where spinal cord goes) sitting in a different place. He says you can't influence that through artificial means.

[-] optissima@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Big chongos?

[-] evolvor@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago
this post was submitted on 25 Nov 2023
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