Quetzalcoatl, the Aztec name ... The earliest versions of the feathered serpent appear as a snake with a feathered headdress, but as the iconography developed, the figure took on anthropomorphic ...

What it tells us about the past: This headdress is just one of numerous artifacts discovered in 1934 in the lavish grave of a woman who lived during the European Mesolithic period (15000 to 5000 B ...