Yes, it's a documented practice, but it was only performed on infants after birth. The subject of the article was a fetus when it died, and its skull was already elongated.
As a side note, many of the elongated skulls that have been discovered, show none of the typical signs of cradle boarding, or intentional deformation.
Even stranger, a lot of them:
· Are missing the sagittal suture
· Have eye sockets much larger than normal humans
· Have larger than normal cranial capacity
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Yes, it’s a documented practice, but it was only performed on infants after birth. The subject of the article was a fetus when it died, and its skull was already elongated.
As a side note, many of the elongated skulls that have been discovered, show none of the typical signs of cradle boarding, or intentional deformation.
Even stranger, a lot of them:
· Are missing the sagittal suture
· Have eye sockets much larger than normal humans
· Have larger than normal cranial capacity
I wonder if any if any of the elongated skulls have been DNA tested to determine if the creatures are Homo Sapiens, or maybe Denisovians, (of which no skulls have been found to date)
Surprisingly, there is a large percentage of Denisovian DNA in Polynesian cultures...when I say large I mean under six percent. American Indians also show signs of Denisovian DNA.
It has been postulated that South American may have been populated from the west, along with from the north. What little we do know about the Denisovians indicate that they were able to make intricate jewelry some 50 kya.