Albanian Cradling Practices came to Europe from Caucasus

[Novi Pazar]

Occipital Flattening & ‘cradling practice’
proves the continuity of modern
Albanians with the Asiatic Dardanians & the South Caucasus

Occipital flattening is a phenomenon that occurs in human morphology when the rear of the head is flattened. It is characteristic exclusively of Albanian Dinarics and tribes in Asia Minor & on the Caucasus side of the Iranian Caspian shore and is caused by a peculiar cradle used by Albanians, and Anatolians alike.


There has been much discussion upon the subject of occipital flattening, both in Albania and in Asia Minor; there are two definite schools, one which believes that it is natural and racially determined, the other that it is a form of artificial deformation caused by cradling.
Carleton Stevens Coon
Races of Europe
(Chapter XII, section XIII)
Albania and the Dinaric Race
Macmillam Press
1939

[Novi Pazar]

Physically, the people looked more European than any others I had seen in the Middle East, both in their facial features and in their clothing. Many of them particularly resembled northern Albanians, a people whom I had studied in 1929 and 1930 and I soon saw one reason why.

In Albania, mothers strap babies to cradles, which they carry with them as they go to the market or go about their work. Although the infants’ heads are no bound, the immobilization of their shoulders forces them to lie on the back of their heads. As a result the heads are flattened in infancy and this condition is retained throughout life. As soon as I saw a pair of young mothers carrying their babies in such cradles, I knew why these people looked so much like Albanians.

Here was a surviving culture closely linked to the origins of European civilization, lived in by a people of European physical type, in the one part of Iran which has enough rainfall to preserve the forest on which its technological aspects depended.

The Seven Caves
Carleton Stevens Coon
Chapter 4: Belt Cave and the Caspian Shore
Page: 135
Knopf, New York, 1957

[Novi Pazar]

Shqiptars bring to Europe some of their non-aryan culture, it's numerous!

[Ujku]

Hello Slavic broda , I suggest we gather all Albanians and deport them back to the Kavkaz so we can have BIGO SERBINSKI INSHALLAAH..

[Novi Pazar]

^ Inshallah is not Serbian idiot, it's your culture!

[Novi Pazar]

Albanians are from Caucasus!

[Laberia]

^ Inshallah is not Serbian idiot, it's your culture!

Hey tserbulano, you are back again?

[KrashNick]

Good old times , I remember Serbs were our neighbors there too but were brought here later by Avars

[Novi Pazar]

^ the dumb Gheg has arrived, nothing to offer who gleens on Sali Aga and now some retarded non-histories about some shoes. Do you have anything to comment about your Gheg Cradling practice which your blood brothers in that Caucasus share? Anything Dumb Gheg.....

[Novi Pazar]

Good old times , I remember Serbs were our neighbors there too but were brought here later by Avars

Serbs are originals here in our (Serbian) Helm. Serbs conquered your ancient homeland in Caucasus, hence Serbian toponyms there. Now explain this Caucasus practice your people brought to Serbia in 1043AD.