Some of the tribes of the Pacific Northwest practiced head binding, giving themselves cone heads using cloth wound around a person's skull from infancy (before the skull hardens). They did this at the time of European contact.
Did these guys actually have bigger brains? Or just bigger brain pans? (Hydrocephalics have deformed brain pans that are mostly full of fluid, not extra brains.)
I've heard about coneheads in Egypt too. Usually the brain seams to be about the same size. In the ones where it's larger I don't know if you can show from a skull how much is brain and how much is fluid.
It's interesting, does it influence their mental abilities or their nervous system? It's not very healthy, I suppose, to bind human's head, it may affect some fragments of the brain. What do you think of it?
Binding the skull does NOT cause it to get larger. These people were elites. Many of the Egyptian Pharoahs had skulls like this and some looked like they were a mix. Nefertiti has a long skull. Yes, these things are very real.
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Did these guys actually have bigger brains? Or just bigger brain pans? (Hydrocephalics have deformed brain pans that are mostly full of fluid, not extra brains.)
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haha
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http://www.pinktentacle.com/2009/03/monster-mummies-of-japan/
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These people were elites.
Many of the Egyptian Pharoahs had skulls like this and some looked like they were a mix.
Nefertiti has a long skull.
Yes, these things are very real.
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