Abstract
Starting from the study of the deformed skulls of Byblos (Lebanon, Chakolithic age) we have reviewed the various regions in the Near East (Egypt, Lebanon, Turkey, etc.) where this custom has been manifested as early as the Neolithic age. The comparison, by means of some statistical tests between undeformed and deformed skulls, allowed us to reveal some modifications such as the reduction of the maximum cranial breadth, the increase of the maximum cranial length, the reduction of the height of the mandibular body, etc. By measuring the depth of depressed areas due to artificial deformation on the skulls of different ages we have remarked that it accentuated progressively as a function of age; from adolescence onwards the traces of depressions diminish appreciably.
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