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Trophy heads.

Publication: Americas (English Edition)
Publication Date: 01-MAY-09
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Trophy heads.(!Ojo!)(collection of skulls)

Article Excerpt
AN EXPANSIVE collection of skulls from defeated enemies symbolized power in many early societies. The Jivaro tribe in the Amazon would remove skulls and shrink soft tissue to make "shrunken heads." The Munduruchu of Brazil decapitated fallen enemies and elaborately prepared the heads for display. But the skulls collected 2,000 to 1,500 years ago by the Nasca civilization on the coast of Peru may have served a different purpose; scientists believe that figuring out that purpose could be important to understanding how civilization progressed in South America.

Originally discovered by the late Alfred Louis Kroeber--an American...

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