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More than 9,000-year-old decapitated head discovered in Brazil

Skull is oldest known to have been severed in the Americas

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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  

By Bruce Bower

- More than 2 years ago

A human skull found in a Brazilian rock-shelter represents the oldest known case of decapitation in the Americas, researchers report September 23 in PLOS ONE.