Showing posts with label biology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label biology. Show all posts

Tuesday

New insights into the origin of elongated heads in early medieval Germany

Date:
March 13, 2018
Source:
Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz
Summary:
A palaeogenomic study investigates early medieval migration in southern Germany and the peculiar phenomenon of artificial skull deformation.



These are strong, intermediate, and non-deformed skulls (from left to right) from the Early Medieval sites Altenerding and Straubing in Bavaria, Germany.