Human heads on display in france7/5/2023 but almost 80 years later, we recognize its cultural importance, along with the science. The practice of preparing the heads, known as tsantsas. Showing Editorial results for bodies.the exhibition. Shrunken human heads, complete with skin and hair, were made by the Shuar and Achuar people of Ecuador and Peru up until the 1960s. "When this was collected, science was different, everything was new. Browse 178 bodies.the exhibition photos and images available, or start a new search to explore more photos and images. Harrison wrote in a memoir that he had traded with local people for the tsantsa. The tsantsa was stuffed with a local newspaper to protect it during its transport from Ecuador to the United States in 1942. The tsantsa at Mercer became part of the university's collection after the death in 2016 of a member of the faculty, biologist Jim Harrison, who acquired it during a trip into Ecuador's remote Amazon region in 1942 while serving in the military during World War II. Their tests showed that the shrunken head met 30 of the 32 criteria scientifically accepted for verifying authentic tsantsas, including the tiny hairs visible on its skin and in its nostrils, as well as its distinctive three-tiered hairstyle, which was characteristic of the peoples who then lived in the Ecuadorian Amazon region where it was from, Kiefer said. The CT scans were also used to create a three-dimensional model to take its place in the university's collection. Thomas said the CT scans verified that the head underneath the hair had been cut open to remove the skull and then stitched up again as part of the ceremonial process that created it. The researchers studied it using a variety of techniques, including computerized tomography, or CT, scans, which allowed them to reconstruct a three-dimensional model of the tsantsa both with and without its long hair. An exhibition in Paris looks at the history of so-called human zoos, that put inhabitants from foreign lands, mostly African countries, on display as articles of curiosity. After several scientific tests, researchers established that the object was a human head, probably from a slain enemy. The earliest evidence of modern humans in Europe has been unearthed in a cave in southern France, showing they lived there at the same time as Neanderthals. Kiefer and his colleagues at Mercer, biologist Craig Byron and biomedical engineer Joanna Thomas, were tasked with verifying that the shrunken head was genuine after academics decided it could be of cultural importance and Ecuador's government asked whether it could be authenticated. According to ancient Greco-Roman sources, Celtic warriors living in France more than 2,000 years ago practiced a gruesome ritual.
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