Elongated heads are seen around the world in ancient royal lines; one would imagine royal persons would be carried and have no need to walk any distance. Was anything found (gold fingernails, etc) that would indicate the specimen was ruling class?
What would be interesting to discern is the shape and weight of the front skull in relation to the posterior - does the face balance the skull on the neck to enable walking? If it can’t, does the specimen have evidence of pretty substantial cranial muscles to support the occipital weight on the neck/cranial vein? How would neck movement be impeded - would the specimen be unable to see their feet or unable to look up?
The authentic skulls were thinner, lighter yet much stronger and had some sorts of mysterious fibers in them.
There were some elements of fine fabric with some. I forget any other symbols or artifacts indicating royalty but the conviction of the researchers was that they were all of a royal class. I forget why all they came to that conclusion.
I don’t recall reading any hypotheses that they had trouble managing their larger heads on their necks.
True. A lot of people don’t realize the elongated heads are found on virtually every continent. I don’t recall about Australia. And, IIRC, the timelines are more or less the same on all the continents, too. it appears as though whatever dispersal (e.g. from the Levant) occurred around the same time for all the disparate located groups.