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However, even more difficult to explain than the anachronistic Ica stones, are the elongated human skulls found throughout south and meso-America, occuring in their highest abundance in the area around Ica, in the jungles of Peru. Because there is no evidence in most of these of tephination, the surgical removal of a portion of the skull bones when young that expands the size of the cranial cavity with age, it is still widely believed by antrhopologists this deformation was accomplished by tightly tying short wooden boards around the skull from a young age. The cultural purpose of this practise has since been lost to time.