The fracture is shown in various views. The skull fracture in this specimen starts at the anterior part of the frontal bone and extends diagonally to the sagittal border of the left parietal bone.

Tightly binding an infant’s head produces highly unusual skull patterns that anthropologists call artificial cranial deformation. Because the most striking and best-known examples are found in South ...

Head binding to change the shape of a baby’s head is surely one of the most radical forms of socially imposed body modification. Tightly binding an infant’s head produces highly unusual skull patterns ...