headshaping

From head +‎ shaping.

headshaping (uncountable)

1. (anthropology) The cultural practice of flattening or otherwise shaping the cranium.
   • 2013, A. Bernard Knapp, The Archaeology of Cyprus, page 274:

     Although headshaping does have Late Aceramic Neolithic precedents on Cyprus, there is no evidence for this practice during the Chalcolithic.

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