Editing Scalping (section)

==Asia==
There is physical evidence that scalping was practiced during the [[Longshan culture|Longshan]] and [[Erlitou culture|Erlitou]] periods in China's central plain.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Stark |first1=Miriam |title=Archaeology of Asia |date=2008 |publisher=Wiley |page=157}}"Skeletons with traits of scalping have also been found at Jiangou in southern Hebei (Longshan culture) and Dasima in Henan (Erlitou culture), suggesting that violent behavior became widespread in the Central Plains during the Longshan and Erlitou periods (Chen 2000; Yan 1982)."</ref>

A skull from an Iron Age cemetery in [[South Siberia]] shows evidence of scalping. It lends physical evidence to the practice of scalp taking by the [[Scythians]] living there.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Murphy |first1=Eileen |last2=Gokhman |first2=Ilia |last3=Chistov |first3=Yuri |last4=Barkova |first4=Ludmilla |title=Prehistoric Old World Scalping: New Cases from the Cemetery of Aymyrlyg, South Siberia |journal=American Journal of Archaeology |date=2002 |volume=106 |issue=1|pages=1–10 |doi=10.2307/507186 |jstor=507186 |s2cid=161894416 }}</ref>

Some evidence is also found in the [[Indian Subcontinent]]. [[Bhai Taru Singh]] ({{Circa|1720}}
– 1 July 1745)<ref name="searchsikh">{{cite web|title=Sikh Martyrs&nbsp;– Bhai Taru Singh|url=http://www.searchsikhism.com/taru.html|publisher=Search Sikhism|access-date=25 January 2007|archive-date=19 August 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120819091417/http://www.searchsikhism.com/taru.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> was a prominent [[Martyrdom in Sikhism|Sikh martyr]] known for sacrificing his life, in the name of protecting [[Sikhism|Sikh]] values, by having had his head scalped rather than [[Kesh (Sikhism)|cutting his hair]] and [[Islam and Sikhism|converting to Islam.]]<ref>{{cite book|last1=Fowler|first1=Marsha|url=https://archive.org/details/religionreligiou0000unse/page/261|title=Religion, Religious Ethics and Nursing|last2=Kirkham|first2=Sheryl|last3=Sawatzky|first3=Rick|last4=Taylor|first4=Elizabeth|date=2011|publisher=Springer Publishing Company|isbn=9780826106643|location=New|page=[https://archive.org/details/religionreligiou0000unse/page/261 261]}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=French|first1=Louis|title=Martyrdom in the Sikh Tradition: Playing the "Game of Love"|date=2000|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780195649475|page=146}}</ref>