9,000 year-old ritualized decapitation found in Brazil

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Re: 9,000 year-old ritualized decapitation found in Brazil

« on: September 26, 2015, 08:00:48 pm »

This is a schematic representation of Burial 26 from Lapa do Santo. Drawing by Gil Tokyo.

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*Strauss A, Oliveira RE, Bernardo DV, Salazar-García DC, Talamo S, Jaouen K, et al. (2015) The Oldest Case of Decapitation in the New World (Lapa do Santo, East-Central Brazil).PLoS ONE 10(9): e0137456. doi:10.1371/journal. pone.0137456

Source: The subject PLOS ONE press release.

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