How the Wari fashioned trophy heads for display: A distinctive modified cranium from Cuzco, Peru, and comparison to trophies from the capital region

The Bioarchaeology of the Human Head: Decapitation, Decoration, and Deformation

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 262-285

  Andrushko, Valerie A ^a  

^a SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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