More than 9,000-year-old decapitated head discovered in Brazil
Skull is oldest known to have been severed in the Americas
![oldest skull](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/092115_bb_est-skull.jpg?fit=860%2C460&ssl=1)
CHOPPED The Americas’ oldest known instance of human decapitation, a more than 9,000-year-old skull, has been discovered in Brazil.
Mauricio de Paiva