More than 9,000-year-old decapitated head discovered in Brazil
Skull is oldest known to have been severed in the Americas

CHOPPED The Americas’ oldest known instance of human decapitation, a more than 9,000-year-old skull, has been discovered in Brazil.
Mauricio de Paiva
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