Artificially Deformed Female Skull (IMAGE)

Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz

Artificially Deformed Female Skull

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This is an artificially deformed female skull from Altenerding, an Earyl Medieavel site in Bavaria. Skull deformations like this were formerly attributed to the Huns. However, the new palaeogenomic study shows that while this individual carries Central Asian genetic components, in all likelihood she migrated from the Black Sea region to Bavaria along with other women around 500 AD.

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State Collection for Anthropology and Palaeoanatomy Munich

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