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Replica of the Luzia Woman’s skull at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. Luzia was discovered in 1974 in a rock shelter near Belo Horizonte, Brazil, and represented one of the earliest sets of human remains discovered in the Americas. Her remains have been dated to between 11,243-11,710 BCE. There was some controversy over her origin, as her facial features were considered dissimilar to Native Americans. Many suggested that she had affinities with Aboriginal Australians, Southeast Asians, and Melanesians. However, it has been demonstrated that she has affinities with the Aimoré people of Brazil and a 2018 study showed she had features more similar to Asians through DNA sequencing.

The real Luzia was kept at the National Museum of Brazil, which was largely destroyed in a fire on September 2nd, 2018. In October some of her remains were recovered, albeit in a damaged, fragmented state. There are future plans to reconstruct the surviving remains.

(via goddessoftheblackcoast)

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hausoftruecrime:

Autopsy photographs showing a victim who committed suicide via electrocution.

The victim twisted a live cable around a ring on the thumb of his left hand, and tied another cable around his left foot before turning on the current. Death by ventricular fibrillation would have been relatively instantaneous.

(via goddessoftheblackcoast)

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