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Cuban natives cranial deformation. The implications to the skull vascular system. (2016)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Gizeh Rangel De Lázaro. Armando Rangel Rivero.

The pre-Columbian deformed skulls, display an oblique tabular fronto occipital artificial cranial warp, which is an Arawak – Taino cultural characteristic element. Such cranial deformations were induced immediately after birth, in both women and men. According to the descriptions supplied by Columbus and other chroniclers, deformations were practiced by the Taíno pottery agriculture groups living in Cuba. Although not all Taíno’s skulls were deformed, this feature is typically used as a cultural...