> Displaying decapitated heads on wooden stakes is something you might expect from the Middle Ages … I dunno, I tend to think of Amazonian headshrinking: https

> Displaying decapitated heads on wooden stakes is something you might expect from the Middle Ages … I dunno, I tend to think of Amazonian headshrinking: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrunken_head https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrunken_head > Historical examples include European colonists mounting the skulls of murdered indigenous peoples, or indigenous peoples using skulls in both burial rituals and as trophy displays. Ah, so Europeans mount the skulls of murder victims, while indigenous peoples bury them, or keep them as trophies. What a very interesting viewpoint on human history prevails amongst the editors at Gizmodo.