Resumen de La deformación cefálica intencional en el México Prehispánico
We revise statuettes that are in the National Museum of Anthropology of the city of Mexico, to confirm or to discard if that referred in skulls about the practice of losing temper the head with different ends is in these archaeological materials. We register around 1000 statuettes coming from the 3 big cultural periods of the Prehispanic time (preclasic, classic and posclasic) and coming from the 5 regions (Golfo, Maya, Occidente de México, Oaxaca and Altiplano Central). The morphological parameters were used that it marks the physical anthropology to value this feature and we obtained very interesting results, such as, the presence of a type of independent excellent deformation of the time and of the place, there are some regional variants and also variants for sex that you/they allow to undergo them their consideration.
