Thread Rating:
  • 0 Vote(s) - 0 Average
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5

East Asians reshaped their skulls 12,000 years ago (cranial design, head engineering)

#1
C C Offline
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/east...-years-ago

EXCERPT: Ancient tombs in China have produced what may be some of the oldest known human skulls to be intentionally reshaped. At a site called Houtaomuga, scientists unearthed 25 skeletons dating to between around 12,000 years ago and 5,000 years ago. Of those, 11 featured skulls with artificially elongated braincases and flattened bones at the front and back of the head.

Skull modification occurred over a longer stretch of time at the site than at any other archaeological dig, the researchers report online June 25 in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology. Permanent reshaping of a skull early in life, when cranial bones are soft, can be achieved by compressing an infant’s head with one’s hands. Binding the head with hard, flat surfaces such as boards or tightly wrapping the head in cloth similarly remodels immature cranial bones. Specific head modifications may have been used as signs of social status.

[...] The earliest skulls with generally accepted signs of cranial modification date to between around 13,000 and 10,000 years ago in western Asia, southeastern Australia and now, East Asia. In the Americas, this practice began more than 8,000 years ago (SN Online: 2/13/18). “It is too early to tell whether intentional cranial modification first emerged in East Asia and spread elsewhere or originated independently in different places,” says Wang, of Texas A&M University in Dallas. (MORE - details)

RELATED: Not Aliens: The Real Explanation Behind 'Xenomorph' Skulls Found in China

[Image: skull-xeno_resize_md.jpg]
[Image: skull-xeno_resize_md.jpg]

Reply


Possibly Related Threads…
Thread Author Replies Views Last Post
  Article Will renewables break the power grid or save it? (design & engineering) C C 1 24 Mar 19, 2024 10:56 PM
Last Post: confused2
  Article The brain-implant company going for Neuralink’s jugular (design, engineering) C C 2 127 Feb 8, 2024 09:09 PM
Last Post: Yazata
  Robot design suggests small dinosaurs may have flapped their feathers to scare prey C C 4 73 Jan 26, 2024 04:01 PM
Last Post: confused2
  Research DNA origami folded into tiny motor (engineering, design) C C 0 57 Jan 19, 2024 06:56 PM
Last Post: C C
  Article Can we fit the universe in a box? (container design & engineering challenges) C C 0 75 Nov 8, 2023 09:55 PM
Last Post: C C
  Article Synchronized phenomena (design, knowledge gaps in engineering) C C 0 91 Sep 9, 2023 05:18 PM
Last Post: C C
  New nuclear rocket design to send missions to Mars in just 45 days (engineering) C C 2 103 Jan 24, 2023 08:16 PM
Last Post: Yazata
  After Artemis I mission’s success, why is an encore 2 years away? (engineering) C C 0 127 Dec 6, 2022 05:29 PM
Last Post: C C
  Engineering duckweed to produce oil for biofuels, bioproducts (bio design) C C 0 172 Oct 12, 2022 02:12 AM
Last Post: C C
  Secrecy: A demon of gene therapy’s past bedevils its future (design, engineering) C C 0 155 Jul 12, 2022 08:23 PM
Last Post: C C



Users browsing this thread: 1 Guest(s)