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Image Source: PLOS One An international team of researchers has uncovered a 9000-year-old decapitated head in Brazil, with a pair of severed hands across its face. About nine thousand years ago, in what is now Lapo do Santa, Brazil, someone had a very, very bad day (and it had nothing to do with venomous frogs). Anthropologists and archaeologists have long known about the practise of ritual decapitation in the New World. Until recently, the act was thought to have originated in about 1000 B.C. in human-sacrificing cultures of the Andes, on the Western coast of South America. The discovery of […]http://cdn.themis-media.com/media/global/images/library/deriv/975/975618.png