19 NOV 2019- "The pre-Columbian cultures of the Americas did very few things in half measures, especially when it comes to flamboyant funerary rituals and gruesome dealings with death.
Archaeologists from the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Charlotte recently excavated the skulls of two infants in South America who were buried wearing “headgear” fashioned out of human skulls – a curious funerary ritual that's never been documented before.
"As far as we know, this is the only example of this practice anywhere in the world," Sara Juengst, study author and assistant professor of bioarchaeology at UNC Charlotte, told IFLScience.
"[However], including extra heads in burials is not so uncommon in pre-hispanic South America, either as trophy heads made from enemies, or as ensuring links to ancestors," they added.
As reported in the journal Latin American Antiquity, the two isolated skulls were found in a complex of burial mounds in present-day Ecuador dated to approximately 100 BCE, alongside at least nine other individuals, a number of seashells, stone figurines, and other small artifacts.
One of the infants, estimated to be 6 to 9 months old at the time of death, was found with the skull of another older child, aged between 2 and 12, placed on top like a helmet. The other skull belonged to a slightly older toddler, around 18 months old, and wore the skull of a child aged between 4 and 12.
Stranger still, the team also recovered a seashell and a hand bone from in between the skull and the skull-hat. They also believe that the two skulls were crafted together while they were still covered in flesh, presumably not long after their death, to hold the bones together....." -
https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/kids-wearing-human-skull-helmets-found-buried-in-ecuador/
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now a days The CCW is pretty much streamlined down to this:
plan on about $300 for to join the gun club,about $200 or up to $300 for the CCW course,about $300 for psyche, psycho and toxico exams,
a 9mm Taurus for say $1200.
a 9mm CZ for say $1500.
aprox $80 to $100 for a box of 50rds 9mm FMJ
i see peeps now a days getting legally armed in about a 3-4 months time frame, kinda like a tuff assed visa process!
'Always be prepared' - BSA & SA,
"When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns" - Louis L'Amour (1908-1988) Western novelist of ...
01JUL25 - SOUTHCOM’s TMPI: Towards Integrated Deterrence in the Americas by Building Maintenance Capacity- #ECUADOR - "Analyzing Ecuador’s foreign policy trajectory over the past two decades is pertinent to illuminating the region’s evolving political and security landscape. During President Rafael Correa’s administration between 2007 and 2017, Ecuador pivoted by severing its military relations with the US.
This comprehensive shift included ordering the closure of the security cooperation office in the US Embassy and honoring but not renewing the lease term for the Manta Air Base, causing the withdrawal of approximately 300 US military personnel stationed there.
However, this period of strained relations was followed by the re-establishment of the Office of Security Cooperation (OSC) in 2018, signaling a potential shift that ultimately materialized with new military cooperation agreements signed with the US in 2023 under President Lasso and ratified in 2024 by President Daniel Noboa. ...
25JUN25 "Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa announced this Thursday the capture of Adolfo Macías Villamar, alias "Fito ," considered the leader of the Los Choneros organized crime group.
"For those who opposed and doubted the need for the Solidarity and Intelligence laws : thanks to those laws, Fito was captured today and is in the hands of the Security Bloc," the president posted on the social network X.
"We have done our part to proceed with Fito's extradition to the United States , and we await your response. Have a good afternoon, Ecuador," Noboa added.
The criminal leader had been on the run for over a year and a half , after escaping from the Guayaquil Regional Prison and hiding his tracks while the country was engulfed in a spiral of violence, culminating in the brief takeover of a television station.
'Fito,' who was serving a 34-year sentence for organized crime, drug trafficking, and murder , escaped on January 7, 2024, as he was about to be transferred to La Roca, a ...
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