August
04
/ 2022
A team of Canadian researchers have accomplished a feat that up to now had proven impossible. As they explain in an article just published in the journal PLOS One, they used clinical computed tomography (CT) and high-resolution micro-CT scans to verify that a shrunken head from South America, known as a tsantsa, was an authentic human head and not a fake manufactured from animal parts. The study that produced this breakthrough discovery was led by anthropology graduate student Lauren September Poeta from Western University in Ontario. Poeta and her collaborators performed their tests on a tsantsa that is currently on display at the Chatham-Kent Museum in Chatham, Ontario. This unique artifact has been linked to the indigenous Shuar people of
