Archaeologists discovered in Brazil Ritual Creepy 9,000 Years Ago

Lapa do Santo - A group of researchers gain a horrific discovery in Brazil. They found the remains of 9,000-year-old may be the oldest evidence for the existence of ritual beheadings in the Americas.

In a cave where the archaeological excavations in Brazil, they found a cracked skull and skeleton hand pieces surrounding it.

Explanation Live Science says that the researchers suspected beheading as prevalent in the Americas. In some areas in South America, the pieces of the head of the defeated enemies often used as souvenirs of the battle.

For example Arara communities in the Amazon region in Brazil that uses the losing side skull war as musical instruments. Then the Inca people who use the skulls of the enemy as a place to drink. Or community Jivaro in Ecuador that shrinks the head of the prisoners to imprison spirits conquered enemies.

Uru-Uru community Chipaya in Bolivia using skulls in Christian worship modified. And Chimu cultures in Peru include the beheading as a standard procedure in a human sacrifice.

The lead author of archaeological research this, André Strauss, who is an expert on archeology of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany, explains, "There are many customs Amerindian so impressed the European colonies other than decomposition and exhibits parts of the human body, mainly related to beheading. "

Archaeologists find Ritual Creepy In Brazil 9,000 Years Ago

Archaeological findings reveal a sinister ritual but prevalent in Brazil in 9000 years ago, when the human body dismembered.

Until now, the oldest findings ritual beheadings in South America that comes from 3,000 years ago in Peru. Similar rituals in North America occurred between 6,000 and 8,000 years ago in Florida.

Findings in Brazil in this paper are from 9000 years ago. Said André Strauss told Live Science, "This is the oldest case of beheadings were found in the New World (another name for the Americas)."

Scientists conduct investigations in the tropics sheltered in eastern Brazil known as Lagoa Santa, which means the Sacred Lake. The area

was covered by crop type savanna and forests.

The area was explored on a large scale in the 19th century by researchers who are looking for evidence of prehistoric human interaction with animals such as the giant dagger-toothed tiger and a sloth mainland.

The scientists had concentrated activity in a place called Lapa do Santo, which means "the shade of the rocks for a holy man." That's where researchers had previously found the rock art of the oldest in South America, such as pictures phallic, which is carved into the rock rock aged about 9,400 years.

Excavators at Lapa do Santo getting signs that place inhabited by humans until 12,000 years ago. A number of stone tools and animal bones found in the shade of it and hinted that prehistoric groups who live there live by eating plants they collect and animals of small and medium-sized they hunt.

Oldest ritual

Archaeological findings reveal a sinister ritual but prevalent in Brazil in 9000 years ago, when the human body dismembered.

the researchers discovered parts of the human body 9,000 years old in Lapa do Santo, including a skull, six top segment of the collar bone, and two hand fragment.

The bones were buried about 55 centimeters below ground level, under slabs of limestone. According to scientists, it suggests that the findings were part of a deliberate burial ritual.

Pieces of palms findings were placed with the palm side down, cover his skull face. The left hand is pointing upwards and covering the right side of the face.

The right hand facing down and cover the left side of the face. According to André Strauss, until recently, funerals in Lagoa Santa is simple.

Not only that, the heads were beheaded were found in South America is typically found in the Andes mountain range. This suggests that the beheadings started as practices in Andes.Namun Thus, according to the scientists, the findings in Brazil this fact suggests ritual beheading bemula from elsewhere and not in the Andes.

No clear reason why this ritual beheadings occurred in Lapa do Santo. Signs of chemical and physical at bones suggests origins of a group of people who are staying there. That is, according to the researchers, the bodies were sacrificed not the 'spoils' of war coming from outside parties.

According to André Strauss, it could be people in this place used to be in the bodies of man to explain the idea of death and the universe.

In the future, the researchers face can retrieve and analyze DNA from relics of this in order to learn more about the owners of these bones. The researchers did detailed their findings online (online) in the journal PLoS ONE