MUSEUM OF PREHISTORY. Corona, 36
Violence has been a constant between people who have shared the same era and geography, historically necessary to sustain and expand the power of tribes, various towns and groups. And one form of violence was to cut off the head of the defeated enemy to display it as a trophy. During the Iron Age, the Iberians, for example, they treated and publicly displayed the heads of their vanquished enemies, sometimes in the company of captured weapons, as trophies. The aim of this highly symbolic ritual custom was to reaffirm the power of the leaders. Archaeological and ethnographic remains from various museums, artistic iconography, audiovisuals and interactive resources illustrate this phenomenon around the world at the Museum of Prehistory. AU
