#salango

El año pasado estuve haciendo voluntariado en Puerto López, Manabí, en la comunidad de Salango. A la cual pertenezco desde que nací aquí en mi bello país Ecuador. Abro este blog para escribir sobre mis experiencias, mis sueños y lo que me gustaría que el mundo viera sobre mi país y el lugar donde vivo (y claro, de mi proceso de aprendizaje y formación en una bióloga orgullosa de su país)

Last year I was doing some volunteering in Puerto López, Manabí, in Salango's community. To which I belong since the moment I was born here in my beautiful and warm country Ecuador. I open this blog because I want to share about my experiences, my hopes, and what I would like to the world beyond my community could see and explore (and of course, share my learning process and my training into a very proud biologist of her country too)

El doctor Rubén llevando una tortuga devuelta a su piscina

El pengu

Two infants were buried some 2,100 years ago wearing "helmets" made from the skulls of other children, archaeologists have discovered.

The remains of the two infants were found with nine other burials at a site called Salango, on the coast of central Ecuador. The archaeologists who excavated the burials between 2014 and 2016 recently published the details of their findings in the journal Latin American Antiquity.

The team says this is the only known case in which children's skulls were used as helmets for infants being buried. The scientists don't know what killed the infants and children.

The helmets were placed tightly over the infants' heads, the archaeologists found. It's likely that the older children's skulls still had flesh on them when they were turned into helmets, because without flesh, the helmets likely would not have held together, the archaeologists noted.