Are shrunken heads for real?
Hunting the Web for shrunken heads, we quickly cut this question down to size. It turns out that shrunken heads are indeed real, and the process used to create them is just as grisly as you might imagine. Taking heads and other physical trophies from battle was common among many world cultures since antiquity, but shrinking the trophy head seems to have only occurred among a few tribes in Ecuador, Peru, and Brazil and probably dates back to around 200 B.C or earlier. In the 19th century, Europeans first discovered and publicized the last remaining tribe that practiced head shrinking. These were the Shuar people of the Jivaro tribe in the tropical forest of the Ecuadorian and Peruvian Amazon. The shrunken head — called the tsantsa — was more t
