Replica Human Skull - Trephined Skull_Height_3.5_IN Kenya in 1975

Kenya in 1975

Full Forearm Total Length 81

This bag of human bones consists of various bones and bone fragments

serrated teeth

Replica Human Skull - Trephined Skull_Height_3.5_IN Kenya in 1975This female skull from the Tuanacen tribe in Bolivia is reported to be 1200 years old and was acquired in 1986. This particular skull is not only trephined but elongated from the practice of wrapping the heads of young females. The skull is unusual as the trephination was done by scraping the bone until the brain was exposed. The patient clearly lived on as the bone shows healing. According to the literature at the University of Iowa, dated circa