Maybe she was the Julia Childs of her day, and this was how they honored her.
I'm just thinking there's a lot of room for interpretation in ancient artifacts and remains.
You know how it is, you get started on a project and keep getting interrupted with urgent, but less important manners until you decide that you just don’t have the time to deal with your project will get to it later.
That’s why her head was on the shelf, for later.
I’m halfway through historian Charles Mann’s “1491,” which covers North and South America in the run up to 1519 and the arrival of Cortez.
I’d recommend the book and Mann’s sequel, “1493” to anyone interested in this bit of history.