Human
skulls deliberately warped into strange, alien-like shapes have been unearthed
in a 1,000-year-old cemetery in Mexico, researchers say.
The
practice of deforming
skullsof children as they grew was common in Central America, and these
findings suggest the tradition spread farther north than had been thought,
scientists added.
The
cemetery was discovered by residents of the small Mexican village of Onavas in
1999 as they were building an irrigation canal. It is the first pre-Hispanic
cemetery found in the northern Mexican state of Sonora.
Posts
