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This book concludes with an interpretational geographic and temporal synopsis on Mesoamerican head-shaping traditions, their ideological undercurrents, and their meanings. Also some methodological issues are to be addressed; namely, when differentiating artificial shapes from those that are not. The issues raised in the following paragraphs, are intended to set the stage for future innovative technical, conceptual, and empirical approaches in the study of this body tradition in this and other cultural areas.
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Tiesler, V. (2014). Conclusions: New Perspectives For Studying Head-shaping Practices in Mesoamerica. In: The Bioarchaeology of Artificial Cranial Modifications. Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology, vol 7. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8760-9_11
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