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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 8251555, member: 99456&quot;]I found the line in wikipedia about elongated skull representing the &quot;corporate identity&quot; of the Alchon Huns entertaining.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_cranial_deformation#/media/File:Afrasiab,_elongated_skull_600-800_CE,_Afrasiab_Museum.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_cranial_deformation#/media/File:Afrasiab,_elongated_skull_600-800_CE,_Afrasiab_Museum.jpg" rel="nofollow">[ATTACH=full]1454168[/ATTACH]</a></p><p>Here&#039;s an ancient reference explaining a skull deformation practice of the &quot;Macrocephali&quot; an African or Indian people with &quot;Long Heads&quot;:</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="4">&quot;I will pass over the smaller differences among the nations, but will now treat of such as are great either from nature, or custom; and, first, concerning the Macrocephali. There is no other race of men which have heads in the least resembling theirs. At first, usage was the principal cause of the length of their head, but now nature cooperates with usage. They think those the most noble who have the longest heads. It is thus with regard to the usage: immediately after the child is born, and while its head is still tender, they fashion it with their hands, and constrain it to assume a lengthened shape by applying bandages and other suitable contrivances whereby the spherical form of the head is destroyed, and it is made to increase in length.&quot;</font></p><p><font size="4">-Hippocrates, <a href="http://classics.mit.edu/Hippocrates/airwatpl.14.14.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://classics.mit.edu/Hippocrates/airwatpl.14.14.html" rel="nofollow">On Airs, Waters, and Places, written ~400 BC, translated by Francis Adams, 14</a></font></p><p><br /></p><p><font size="4">The sentences from Hippocrates that follow seems to explain Lamarckian inheritance about 2000 years before Jean-Baptiste Lamarck was born in 1744.</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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