10-18-2007, 05:00 PM
Quote:It's been written that the Huns compressed their children noses with bandages in order to make'em flat and fit better inside the helms nasals... Wouldn't have been easier to make the helmets bigger?
I've never seen nasal deformation as you describe, but the cranial deformation Jools noted can be quite extreme. Here is a link to some Incan skulls (just look at the pics, the text is crap):
http://www.crystalinks.com/incanskulls.html
These guys would have looked like something out of Tolkien.
Paul M. Bardunias
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