
Genetic analysis of a shrunken head verifies anecdotal accounts of violent head-hunting in South America.They"ve appeard in movies such as Beetlejuice and Harry Potter and thousands of them were manufactured in the late 19th and early20th centuries to turn a profit, but one shrunken head recently discovered proved to be the real deal.
A remarkably well-preserved shrunken head has just been authenticated by DNA analysis, which provides strong evidence that anecdotal accounts of violent head-hunting in South America were true. The study, published in the latest issue of Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, marks the firstsuccessful effort to unveil the genetic make-up of a shrunken head.
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