headshaping
nounEtymology From head + shaping.
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Anthropology, Human sciences, Sciences The cultural practice of flattening or otherwise shaping the cranium.
- Although headshaping does have Late Aceramic Neolithic precedents on Cyprus, there is no evidence for this practice during the Chalcolithic.2013, A. Bernard Knapp, The Archaeology of Cyprus, page 274:
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