Nathanael Fosaaen | A Note on Scalping and Trophy Taking in Archaeology @NathanaelFosaaen | Uploaded February 2021 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
For some reason there is a common misconception that the scalping practice was introduced to Native Americans by Europeans. I had some comments in my earlier videos expressing confusion that I was talking about scalping in prehistoric contexts. In fact, this is a very native form of the world-wide phenomenon of taking body parts as war trophies.

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for previous content about violence, conflict, and warfare
youtu.be/GpyFynWzab0 - Warfare Theory in Prehistory
youtu.be/W1wMos2Pu_w - The Crow Creek Massacre


Ashley Kendell 2011
The Crow Creek Massacre: the Role of Sex in Native American Scalping Practices

Lawrence S. Alexander, Orion S. Kroulek, Mary F. Trudeau, Robert H. Lafferty, III, 2017
Phase III Data Recovery at the Williams Spring Site (1ma1167),
A Late Middle Woodland Village on Redstone Arsenal, Madison County Alabama
Volume II

https://www.academia.edu/35835186/PHASE_III_DATA_RECOVERY_AT_THE_WILLIAMS_SPRING_SITE_1MA1167_A_LATE_MIDDLE_WOODLAND_VILLAGE_ON_REDSTONE_ARSENAL_MADISON_COUNTY_ALABAMA_VOLUME_II

P. Willey and Thomas E. Emerson, 1993
The Osteology and Archaeology of the Crow Creek Massacre
Plains Anthropologist 38(145)