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Why did some people have elongated skulls?

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Left: Portrait of Yuezhi prince from Khalchayan, c. 1st century CE.Right: Elongated skull excavated in Samarkand (dated 600–800 CE), Afrasiab Museum of Samarkand Over millennia, diverse cultures worldwide have engaged in the practice of artificial cranial deformation, known as head binding, sculpting the very bones of their infants' skulls into varying shapes. This intricate process, often initiated during infancy, has been driven by a myriad …

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