9,000 year-old ritualized decapitation found in Brazil
Wednesday, September 23, 2015 - 13:20
in Paleontology & Archaeology
A 9,000 year-old case of human decapitation has been found in the rock shelter of Lapa do Santo in Brazil, according to a study published September 23, 2015 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by André Strauss from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany and colleagues.