The Infants Buried in Skull Helmets

c. 100 BCE · Salango, Ecuador

Archaeologists studying a burial complex at Salango documented two infants interred with the cranial vaults of other young people arranged around their heads. The extraordinary ritual is documented in archaeological research, but its exact significance is unknown.

The unanswered question: What did these unusual burials signify?

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