Usually it is a part of a cultural ritual, aimed at creating a skull shape which is aesthetically more pleasing or associated with desirable attributes such as intelligence. In a typical case, headbinding begins approximately a month after birth and continues for about six months. It is typically carried out on an infant, as the skull is most pliable at this time. Flat shapes, elongated ones (produced by binding between two pieces of wood), rounded ones (binding in cloth) and conical ones are among those chosen. Head flattening, also called head binding, head shaping or head moulding, is the application of pressure or bindings to cranial bones (the human skull) to alter their shapes. I'm sure I wasn't the only one fascinated in history class when I read about the Mayans who had the same head binding practices as the Egyptians. With the bump - that is something that could be exagerated or artificially created. Apparently, their second toe is always longer than the rest of the toes. But I did read one of those random old wives tales type things where the descendants of royalty can be identified by their feet. I do not know if that still counts as a Anatolian bump (not impossible, as some of my ancestors were from what is now modern day Turkey). The bump I have is not quite in line with my neck/spine. It sounds like my golden retriever's occiput. If you have a ridge, it will stop your fingers from going on up and across your head. Run your fingers straight up your neck toward your head. To find a ridge, place your hand at the base of your neck where it joins your shoulders, and on the center line of your spine. I can lay one finger under it and the ridge is as deep as my finger is thick. It is larger than anyone else's that I have felt, except my father's. This ridge is an enlargement of the base of the skull, which is called a Central Asian Cranial Ridge. If you cannot find the bump, check to see if you, like some descendants, including myself, have a ridge, located at the base of the head where it joins the neck, rather than the Anatolian bump. This is called an ANATOLIAN BUMP, and indicates ancestry from the Anatolian region of Turkey. It is about the size and shape of half a golf ball or smaller. There is a bump on the back of the HEAD of SOME descendants, that is located at mid-line, just ABOVE the juncture with the neck. There are some physiological characteristics which are called ethnic markers, that seem to be passed on through the lines of some Melungeon descendants. The info is taken from a website, see link below: Like any other hypo, I went online to figure out what the bony bump could be. It feels like bone - like my skull is just shaped wrong in the one spot. This topic came up while I sat debating whether I should call the doctor about a bump on my head.

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