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12,000 years ago, a boy had his skull squashed into a cone shape

7 years 2 months ago
Ancient people in China practiced human head-shaping about 12,000 years ago — meaning they bound some children's maturing skulls, encouraging the heads to grow into elongated ovals — making them the oldest group on record to purposefully squash their skulls, a new study finds.
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