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ArticleNeurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology2018

Can artificially deforming skulls cause "defects of intelligence"? The observations of a positivist anthropologist on an artificially deformed skull discovered in Naples.

Marta Licata, Rosagemma Ciliberti, Silvia Iorio

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Article in Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Marta LicataCentre of Research in Osteoarchaeology and Paleopathology, Department of Biotechnology and Life Sciences, University of Insubria, O. Rossi, 9, 21100, Varese, Italy. marta.licata@uninsubria.it.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3343-3999
Rosagemma CilibertiSection of Forensic Medicine and Bioethics, Department of Health Sciences, University of Genoa, Via De Toni 12, 16132, Genoa, Italy.
Silvia IorioDepartment of Molecular Medicine, Unit of History of Medicine, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
Sapienza University of Rome · ITUniversity of Genoa · ITUniversity of Insubria · IT

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We discuss a particular case of an artificially deformed skull discovered in Naples in 1892 and published in the Italian Journal of Natural Sciences by the anthropologist Abele De Blasio. To comprehend the observations of the researcher about the "defects of intelligence" caused by the artificial deformation of the skull, we will also analyze other articles in which De Blasio presented the deformed skulls of ancient Peruvian mummies.

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AnthropologyBone DiseasesHistory, 19th CenturyHumansIntellectual DisabilityItalyMaleMedical IllustrationSkull BaseAbele De BlasioAnthropologistArtificially deformed skull

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