The jaw is displaced, giving it an awkward cant, but the flat forehead is
typical of the Maya-inspired tradition of tying a flat board to the
children's forehead.
Holy Footbinding! People are so totally weird!
Did it make them stoopid (no room left in the box for the frontal
lobes), or just make them look strange?
If the former, it could be a self-perpetuating idiocy ...
Toltec's were supposedly related to the Maya.
Here is an image of an upper-class Maya skull, with no jawbone
http://www.robertschoch.net/MSkl4.jpg
Howdy Jones and Stephen,
Perhaps of all the different peoples of the world, those that traversed
Central America and Mexico over the past 6000 years provide us the most
diverse quandries in the bloodlines of the "natives".
Olmec, Azteca- Ute, Toltec, Maya, Inca, Oriental-Aleut and Negroid-
Polynesian with some Egyptian -Nordic-Irish along the way . It must have
been interesting to stumble across a tribe with blond hair and blue eyes
(Nordic) and another with red hair and fair skin ( Ireland). Next came the
Spaniards with a healthy sprinkling of Arabic (ex-Muslim).
Plays heck with the upper caste Mexican and Brazilian to this day.The Maya
solved the problem by distinction ( elongate the head of babies).
Richard
