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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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[–] Norgur@kbin.social 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] Deceptichum@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Doesn’t she have rabbit ears?

[–] dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Crump with me sweety

[–] Ulvain@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] bingbong@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] DavidGarcia 1 points 1 year 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 17 points 1 year ago

What about the droid attack on the wookies?

[–] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

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

[–] lostme@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

Xenomorphs in Peru definitely wasn't on my bingo card

[–] Hank@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Imagine this would still be practiced and how goofy bike helmets would look.

[–] JCreazy@midwest.social 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] Pilkins@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year 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 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] tpihkal@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It makes me uncomfortable tbh.

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

[–] optissima@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Big chongos?

[–] evolvor@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)