Italian anthropologists discovered the oldest evidence of the intentional transformation of the human skull in Europe. They studied the skull found in the 1970s in the Candide Arena cave on Italy's Riviera. Scientists dating the paleolithic period.
Arena Candide is a large cave in the North of Italy, located at an altitude of about 90 meters above sea level. Excavations with systems in the venue of this archaeological monument have been held since the early 1940s. In this cave, many burial places of the Epigrothic culture have been found, dating to the end of the era of Coper Paleolithic.
The rest of the skull man was found when starting to study the Candide animal in the early 1940s. This person lived about 12 thousand years ago.
Scientists have found that it is an adult. Pay special attention is his unusual skull, elongated about the length of the form. The owner of a strange skull is assigned AC-12 code name. Previously, scientists made a hypothesis that the cause of the skull could be an injury or disease transferred in childhood.
In a new study, anthropologists used the virtual reconstruction of the skull that created the 3D model of the skull and compares it with similar foundations. As a result, it turned out that the person named AC-12 experienced the intentional transformation of the skull, while still a child. According to anthropologists, to adjust the artificial shape of the skull, fabric strips, tightly wrapped in heads, can be used. To achieve the desired shape of the skull, the child probably had to wear such a design on his head for a few years.
Based on dating, scientists believe that this is the oldest case of the unintended cases of the skull by European people. An article on research has been published in scientific reports.
It is still a mystery for ancient European residents, which has used the deformation of the skull in this case. In different cultures, such operations are performed for many reasons: for example, a deformed skull can indicate a certain social status of a person or his people.
Before that it was known that Archaeologists have discovered the oldest traces of people in Indonesia. The representative of the Homo family went to Sulawesi Island 1.04 million years ago. Scientists have made such a conclusion on the basis of a study of stone antiques found in the first Pleistocene's parking lot in Calios. The tools are small pointed stones. It is impossible to set the age of the findings. However, scientists have conducted dating from the properties of the sand they were found.
