La deformación cefálica intencional en el México Prehispánico

Abstract

As we already know it was common in all prehispanic town to lose temper in a temporary or permanent way some part or region of the body. Among these morphological modifications, one of them that it was very common is the with respect to the practice of losing temper the head with different ends. According to the respective bibliography based on the study of skulls of that time, more than 90% of them they present this cultural feature. For this presentation it interested us to revise statuettes that are in the National Museum of Anthropology of the city of Mexico, to confirm or to discard if that referred in skulls is in these archaeological materials. To achieve it they were revised near 10,000 statuettes and we register around 1000 of them coming from the 3 big cultural periods of the prehispanic time (preclasic, classic and posclasic) and coming from the 5 regions (Golfo, Maya, Occidente de México, Oaxaca and Altiplano Central). The morphological parameters were used that it marks the physical anthropology to value this feature and we obtained very interesting results, such as, the presence of a type of independent excellent deformation of the time and of the place, there are some regional variants and also variants for sex that you/they allow to undergo them their consideration.