The incredible 'alien' skull discovered in a Mexican cemetery: 1,000-year-old skeleton reveals bizarre practice of binding heads
By Mark Prigg, Daily Mail, 19 December 2012.
By Mark Prigg, Daily Mail, 19 December 2012.
It is an astonishing image that could have come straight from the plot of a Ridley Scott movie.
Archaeologists in Mexico today revealed the astonishing skull of a person suffering from a cranial disfiguration. Believed to be 1,000 years old, the find was made near the small Mexican village of Onavas.
The find is believed to be the first in the region showing the practice of binding a skull [cranial deformation] to change its shape…
Top image: Archaeologists excavate a 1000 year old pre-Hispanic cemetery in Sonora (via Past Horizons).
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