The Macrocephali (Ancient Greek: Μακροκέφαλοι; "long-headed people") were ancient tribes of Africans or Indians who performed artificial cranial deformation.[1][2]
Some ancient authors mentions such tribes also at Caucasus and in the north-east of Pontus (region).[3]
Their cultural practice of artificially shaping the skulls of their children was mentioned by Hesiod, Hippocrates,[4] Pomponius Mela, Pliny the Elder, Valerius Flaccus, Xenophon, Strabo, and Eustathius.