AHD: Artificial Cranial Deformation.

As anything the aesthetic its depend of how the procedure is done investigating a little more i found these images
it not the same this:

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OK2tQvkS...GgeNqZz-AXnACLcB/s1600/mangbetu-people-15.jpg

https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-uYXLuKKL...e0glvP1TcS2gCLcB/s1600/mangbetu-people-16.jpg

https://s.hswstatic.com/gif/stufftoblowyourmind-23-2014-11-elongatedskull2.jpg (in this one we see a kid in the start of the procedure)

mangbetu people of conga the practice died in the 1960, there could be around people alive still with elongated skull but i couldn´t get more modern images and/or studies of IQ development

That this:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4e/«_déformation_toulousaine_»_MHNT.jpg

(French Toulouse peasant)

So depend of how the culture develop i could see it until the modern world, maybe with a Tahuantinsuyo surviving to the present day, the practices was widely popular in Pre-Spanish Peru so i see little motive why a surviving Tahuantinsuyo wouldn´t maintain the practices in special if they enter in conflict with the Spanish as a form to identified and diferentiate themselves from the conquered tribes under the Spanish control
 
It was used by the Incas to mark rank I seem to recall. It'd be interesting if it was codified by somptuary laws and the effects of marking nobles (or slave born) in that way.

Louis XVI wouldn't even have gone as far as Varennes then!
 
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