Archaeologists excavating a site in Salango, Ecuador, between 2014-2016, have discovered a 2,100-year-old skeletons of 2 infants wearing “helmets” made from the skulls of older children. In one of them, they found a small shell and a finger bone sandwiched between the 2 layered skulls [960×1254]
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[https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/remains-infants-found-wearing-helmets-made-skulls-other-children-180973608/](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/remains-infants-found-wearing-helmets-made-skulls-other-children-180973608/)
[https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/latin-american-antiquity/article/abs/unique-infant-mortuary-ritual-at-salango-ecuador-100-bc/288F1E104204E9FB0C7D2308878FAC9C#](https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/latin-american-antiquity/article/abs/unique-infant-mortuary-ritual-at-salango-ecuador-100-bc/288F1E104204E9FB0C7D2308878FAC9C#)
Uhhh, why?… WHY would that be a thing?!?!
what the farrrrk…I mean, it’s not an easy sales pitch to the wife even 2000years ago, is it.
Humans really do get up to some weird shit, and it’s why I love this field of study. Fiction can’t really compare.
Dang. Seems like a simpler time. Today is so weird.
Metal.
“Honey? I was counting my pile of finger bones, and I keep coming up short. You’re not using them to fit Junior’s child skull helmet again, ARE YOU?”
Read it in Jackie Gleason’s voice.
And again in Gilbert Gottfried’s.
I’m so far from being an anthropologist, but that didn’t stop me from imagining a possible use of these older children’s skull “head covers” as a way of giving the deceased child a spirit guide or protector in the realm of death.
This was for burial only. Reasons and methods are unknown.