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headshaping en · NOUN

Etymology

From head + shaping.

Meanings

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

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