headshaping

English

Etymology

From head +‎ shaping.

Noun

headshaping (uncountable)

  1. (anthropology) The cultural practice of flattening or otherwise shaping the cranium.
    • 2013, A. Bernard Knapp, The Archaeology of Cyprus, page 274:
      Although headshaping does have Late Aceramic Neolithic precedents on Cyprus, there is no evidence for this practice during the Chalcolithic.
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