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
Humans are so weird. how did this practice come about i wonder, did someone think 'i want my child's head to be long' for reasons and did the cloth thing or did they go 'I wonder what happens if i were to wrap this cloth around my baby's head for years'