Posted on 05/22/2024 9:14:08 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
The elongated skulls of Paracas in Peru caused a stir in 2014 when a geneticist that carried out preliminary DNA testing reported that they have mitochondrial DNA “with mutations unknown in any human, primate, or animal known so far”. A second round of DNA testing was completed in 2016 and the results almost as controversial – the skulls tested, which date back as far as 2,000 years, were shown to have European and Middle Eastern Origin. It was claimed these surprising results would change the known history about how the Americas were populated. But did they?
Paracas is a desert peninsula located within Pisco Province on the south coast of Peru. It is here where Peruvian archaeologist, Julio Tello, made an amazing discovery in 1928 – a massive and elaborate graveyard containing tombs filled with the remains of individuals with the largest elongated skulls found anywhere in the world. These have come to be known as the ‘Paracas skulls’. In total, Tello found more than 300 of these elongated skulls, some of which date back around 3,000 years.
It is well-known that most cases of skull elongation are the result of cranial deformation, head flattening, or head binding, in which the skull is intentionally deformed by applying force over a long period of time. It is usually achieved by binding the head between two pieces of wood, or binding in cloth. However, while cranial deformation changes the shape of the skull, it does not alter other features that are characteristic of a regular human skull.
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The information point that is most relevant is the bone sutures of the skulls. If they match typical humans, the external methods of deformation make sense. If the suturing pattern radically differs (my understanding), how would external deformation explain the difference in the number of bone components that make up the skull?
“2000 years ago, Carthage had trading fleets going all over”
Agreed. And the Carthaginians would have likely had the mixed European-Middle Eastern DNA profile.
And the elongated skull practice was also present in the Mediterranean basin:
https://theasheart.com/hal-saflieni-hypogeum-elongated-skull/
The problem is they’re not historical facts. Show me some peer reviewed studies validating these “facts.” Show me the repeatable DNA studies. Until then all you have is nutty articles from some fringe website that believes Brien Forester is a legitimate archeologist. LOL’
This is just like the eurocentric nuttery surrounding the Kenniwick Man. Turns out he was native American after all.
BTW native Americans were capable of doing things without these so called white saviours.
“The problem is they’re not historical facts.”
Okay, you win.
They couldn't even invent the wheel.
OK then. How did they get to Peru? It certainly wouldn’t have been around Cape Horn.Most likely on the East coast of South America. So why would they travel all the way across the continent to Peru? Did they leave a DNA trail across the continent? Europeans and ME were fond of writing things down. So where are the historical records of these travels?
Nick Pope will be sooooo disappointed!
How do we know the Europeans don’t have Peruvian ancestry?
Go to your room, and don’t come out until you learn not to ask questions! ;D
Hm?....Interesting question!
If I remember correctly, the unborn fetuses had elongated skulls.
“So whitey was here first after all.”
There were white tribes in South America long ago.
In fact, I saw a documentary of someone traveling through the jungles of South America, or hard to reach isolated areas. Sometimes average looking locals, Indians, would have white children, looking completely different from the parents, red headed, blonde, blue eyes, etc., that would fit in easily in any Northern European country. It was eerie. Recessive genes from many generations prior.
And it would be impossible to bind a skull to make it look like that.
Perhaps their understanding had evolved light years beyond typical humans, who only *think* they have it all sewn up.
It sure looks like they had come across some ancient words of wisdom that informed, "A stitch in time saves nine", and decided to eliminate the need for sewing altogether.
Of course, the downside was that the price of yarmulkes didn't even zigzag -- it went straight through the roof.
Seamless logic, but many won't be able to follow along in order to keep up with the changes. Well, to them I can only say, "Suture self."
It's kind of like the lyrics of that song, A Boy Named Sew:
"Now you gonna die!"
They couldn’t even invent the wheel.
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But they were pretty good at building cities, roads and pyramids without it.
As to them not inventing the wheel, neither did the Greeks, Romans, British, or Egyptians, but they all did pretty good for themselves.
But the fact is they did invent the wheel independently from outside influence. Just like the earliest Eurasian wheels their wheels were on toys.
Now as to why they didn’t use it for other purposes, who knows. Maybe they didn’t have beasts of burden to utilize. Were there horses and cattle in South America?
A person drawn cart may not have been that necessary when you have hundreds of thousands of slaves/ subjects to carry things.
You mean that it wasn’t some sort of religeous symbol like everything else that archeologists tell us?
The Greeks, Romans, British, and Egyptians certainly did use the wheel in its many permutations.
The Greeks, Romans, British, and Egyptians certainly did use the wheel in its many permutations.
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I didn’t say they didn’t use the wheel. I said they didn’t invent it.
In fact, I saw a documentary
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You saw a documentary? Source? Name? Or have you conveniently forgotten it? There are no legitimate sources that say there were white tribes in South America.
In fact, I saw a documentary
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You saw a documentary? Source? Name? Or have you conveniently forgotten it? There are no legitimate sources that say there were white tribes in South America.
And it’s not impossible to bind a skull to look like that. The proof is the skull itself. It exists.
“And it would be impossible to bind a skull to make it look like that.”
Possible.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_cranial_deformation
“There are no legitimate sources that say there were white tribes in South America.”
There was quite a few tribes of Germans in Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay after World War Two.
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