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Gerasimov Mikhail. Boy with artificially deformed head from a Catacomb burial at Kamenny Brod (now part of Lugansk, Donbass). circa 1938
Gerasimov Mikhail. Boy with artificially deformed head from a Catacomb burial at Kamenny Brod (now part of Lugansk, Donbass). circa 1938
Number
МАЭ № 6080-18
Title
Boy with artificially deformed head from a Catacomb burial at Kamenny Brod (now part of Lugansk, Donbass).
Date
circa 1938
Collectors-person
Material
plaster
Annotation
The burial of an 8-9-year-old boy, associated with the Bronze Age Catacomb Culture (3d millennium BC), was excavated by S.A. Loktyushev in 1928. The boy’s physical type is Caucasoid, showing sharply profiled face and protruding nose. The artificial deformation is of the fronto-parietal type, achieved by applying planks to the child’s forehead and occiput and fastening them with a tight bandage. Eventually both the forehead and the occiput flattened. The custom was rather widely practiced by the Catacomb people.
Corpus
Anthropological plastic reconstructions, lifetime masks. 19th - 20th centuries
Gerasimov Mikhail. Australopithecus (infantile member of the spices Australopithecus africanus). 1938 ?
Gerasimov Mikhail. Bronze Age man from Khaptsigay (Irkutsk Region), circa 1939