As you may or may not know, there are a lot of elongated skulls that have been found and studied by archeologists, anthropologists and others. Many of these skulls are not naturally shaped that way: they are artificially and intentionally deformed through flattening or binding. This practice predates written history and can be found throughout the world in cultures that are supposedly completely distinct from each other geographically. (see this article for exampe)
Latin America
N. Chomsky. 2007. What We Say Goes – Conversations on U.S. Power in a Changing World
This book is essentially a series of interviews or discussions during which Noam Chomsky’s is asked about various matters that were (and many still are) major concerns on the geopolitical world stage in 2006-7, and then transcribed into book format.
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