Posted on 06/07/2007 8:06:26 AM PDT by BGHater
A headless skeleton found in a Peruvian tomb is adding new wrinkles to the debate over human sacrifice in the ancient Andes.
The decapitated body was found in the Nasca region, named for the ancient civilization that thrived in southern Peru from A.D. 1 to 750.
Known for producing "Nasca lines" in the earth that depict giant figures, the culture is also noted among archaeologists for practicing human sacrifice and displaying modified human heads called trophy heads.
But experts have been divided over whether the heads were taken from enemies in war or from locals offered up for ritual sacrifice.
In 2004 Christina Conlee, an archaeologist at Texas State University, found a rare headless skeleton in a tomb sitting cross-legged with a ceramic "head jar" placed to the left of the body (see enlarged photo).
The age and condition of both the body and the jar, which is painted with two inverted human faces, suggests that the victim was killed in a rite of ancestral worship, Conlee said.
"This research is important because it provides new information on human sacrifice in the ancient Andes and in particular on decapitation and trophy heads," she said.
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GGG
Heads up about a Head.
That’s a nice head jar, but I’d rather keep my head.
A “jarhead”?
Just doing the jobs Peruvian heads wouldn’t do.
May be related to this.
Decapitated Man Found in Peru Tomb With Ceramic “Replacement” Head, Will Participate in Next Democrat Presidential Debate
In the NASCAR region, the head would've been replaced with a Dale Jr. bowling ball.
My eyes suggest to me that that skeleton is that of a very tall person based on the skull there. Am I totally wrong?
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“I lost my head and I said some things,
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May be related to these folks:
"Of additional significance is the shape of the skulls, which are described as long and narrow, very unlike those of modern Native Americans."
We white people keep turning up in the weirdest places.
This may have been the first instance of a primitive attempt at a brain transplant.
The subject was obviously an early liberal whose thinking didn’t quite fit in with normal people.
The Jomon/Ainu are Caucasian-like people and IMO, the source of all the 'unusual' people whose skeletons are being found in the Americas.
Geeeeez...I'll have to remember this the next time I lose my head.
Brainless Man Ping.
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