Archaeologists Found a Cube-Shaped Human Skull in Mexico
Archaeologists Found a Cube-Shaped Human Skull in Mexico
Archaeologists Found a Cube-Shaped Human Skull in Mexico
Archaeologists in Mexico have uncovered a 1,400-year-old skull shaped like a cube, and it’s unlike anything they’ve seen in the region.
According to a translated statement from Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), the skull belonged to a middle-aged man who lived in a village that flourished around A.D. 400. Dozens of circular houses filled the settlement. Cranial modification wasn’t unusual there, but this shape absolutely was. Biological anthropologist Jesús Ernesto Velasco González said modified skulls from the area usually point upward in an erect shape created by soft padding. This one, though, was flattened across the top, giving it a blocklike structure specialists refer to as a parallelepiped.
If you could have any shaped skull you wanted, what shape would you have?