06-06-2014, 05:23 PM
Alanus wrote:
Just slightly off topic but maybe your original spangels were designed for skulls like this as the Eastern Alans practised cranial deformation. Don't know about the more western Roxolani though. You would have trouble fitting a normal bowl type helmet on that head. :wink:
[attachment=10094]Cranialdeformation.jpg[/attachment]
Image taken from a French publication 'Les Alains' by Vladimir Kouznetsov and Iaroslav Lebedynsky
Regards
Michael Kerr
Quote:Don't know why it peaks as high as it does, but it's possible the Roxolani wore top-knots much like the Chinese.mile:
Just slightly off topic but maybe your original spangels were designed for skulls like this as the Eastern Alans practised cranial deformation. Don't know about the more western Roxolani though. You would have trouble fitting a normal bowl type helmet on that head. :wink:
[attachment=10094]Cranialdeformation.jpg[/attachment]
Image taken from a French publication 'Les Alains' by Vladimir Kouznetsov and Iaroslav Lebedynsky
Regards
Michael Kerr
Michael Kerr
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