A Brief History of Trepanation, One of the World’s Oldest Surgeries
The practice of drilling or scraping a hole into the skull’s cranial vault has been performed for thousands of years.
Tribe refuses to accept ‘cursed’ ritual skulls after museum offers to return them
A tribe in Papua New Guinea has refused to accept a series of ‘cursed’ ritual skulls made by cannibal headhunters after a ...
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Aboriginal remains returned by Germany to Australia
In total, the remains of 53 ancestors are being returned this month. Skulls and bones of Aboriginal Australians were removed by researchers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and put on ...
FIRST READING: Skulls, scalps and bodies — the stuff in European museums that Canada wants back
Four skulls given as a present by famed physician ... There are undoubtedly many more Indigenous remains in European archives ...
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Indian tribes seek to bring back ancestral skulls from UK
The horned skull of a Naga tribesman was among thousands of items that European colonial administrators ... the Mudan warriors of Taiwan, the Aboriginal people of Australia and the Native Hawaiians.
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Germany repatriates colonial-era remains of indigenous Australians
The two mummified bodies, two skulls and one traditional "burial bundle" were taken from Aboriginal and Torres ... the mid-19th century to explore non-European cultures. "These ancestral remains ...
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Syncretism celebration in Bolivia on the Day of the Skulls
Bolivians celebrated the Day of Skulls over the weekend, a colorful tradition rooted in ancient indigenous beliefs that is meant to bring good fortune and protection by honoring the dead.
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Bolivians decorate skulls with sunglasses and cigarettes to honor the dead
Bolivians celebrated the Day of Skulls over the weekend, a colourful tradition rooted in ancient indigenous beliefs that is meant to bring good fortune and protection by honouring the dead.
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Germany repatriates colonial-era remains of indigenous Australians
The two mummified bodies, two skulls and one traditional "burial bundle" were taken from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islands burial sites and brought to Germany around 1880, researchers said.