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Alarming Find in Italy: Ancient 12,500-Year-Old Skull Uncovers Europe’s Earliest Known Cranial Modification
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Alarming Find in Italy: Ancient 12,500-Year-Old Skull Uncovers Europe’s Earliest Known Cranial Modification
Over 12,000 years ago, hunter-gatherers living on the Ligurian coast already practiced complex gestures that exceeded simple survival. In the cave of Arene Candide, used as a necropolis during the Upper Paleolithic, a human skull was voluntarily shaped from early childhood by a tight bandage, giving an elongated and flattened shape to the cranial vault. This specimen, identified under the name AC12, has just been studied by a team associating th…
The skulls found by archaeologists may have strange forms... Sometimes artificially inflicted! In a cave in northern Italy, a skeleton discovered in the 1940s presents a skull in the elongated form, a form that would be due to unknown cultural practices...
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