The skull itself is the size of a human torso ... “I’m inspired by myth and anthropology, anything old,” he said. As far as carving bones, Borders said that practice began after his mother ...

A lack of healed bone on the edges of incisions suggests skull carving occurred shortly after death. A human skull piece found at Turkey’s ancient Göbekli Tepe site has a carved groove ...

In addition, recent electron microscope analyses of skulls by the British Museum and the Smithsonian Institution revealed markings that could only have been made with modern carving implements.