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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

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[–] Ulvain@sh.itjust.works 18 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Forget the shape, is no one going to mention they found skulls with WRITING ON THEM?!

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 13 points 10 months ago

You get your baby's Head elongated for free if you let advertisers write on them.

[–] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] bingbong@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] DavidGarcia@feddit.nl 1 points 9 months ago

it would have been even longer if the magick spell had said B I G C H O N G O S.

[–] Mr_Fish@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago

What about the droid attack on the wookies?

[–] lostme@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

Xenomorphs in Peru definitely wasn't on my bingo card

[–] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

As long as they don't get bigheaded about it.

[–] Fixbeat@lemmy.ml 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That can’t be good for the grey matter.

[–] corship@feddit.de 6 points 10 months ago

Grey matter is overrated anyway.

Streamline the synapses!

[–] JCreazy@midwest.social 10 points 10 months ago (2 children)

But what was the reason they did this? Did they think it looked good?

[–] Pilkins@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago

Talking out my ass here so please research and verify, but at least for the woman with elongated necks, it was originally to make them unattractive to men of other tribes. Over time, this turned into a specific beauty standard for their own tribe.

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] tpihkal@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It makes me uncomfortable tbh.

Probably makes them uncomfortable, too, especially the neck muscles.

[–] Mcballs1234@lemmy.ml 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] optissima@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

Big chongos?

[–] evolvor@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)