Posted on 07/24/2016 10:56:51 AM PDT by Fractal Trader
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”. Now a second round of DNA testing has been completed and the results are just as controversial – the skulls tested, which date back as far as 2,000 years, were shown to have European and Middle Eastern Origin. These surprising results change the known history about how the Americas were populated.
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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Wellll...Egypt is in Africa and Akhenaten had an elongated skull and obama is said to be a clone (got an Africa gene) of that Pharoah so since obama is a chicked**** and does a lot of waffling maybe you are channeling ummm Akhenaten.
The Mormons are right after all.
It’s one thing to shape the head...but there is a lot of excess skull there. Where did all that extra bone material come from?
The clue is if there are remnants of any ancient Waffle and Chicken Houses in Africa.
Bone GROWS where it is allowed to and encouraged to expand.
I have no idea.
Fascinating, thanks.
Even themselves.
Holy cow.
It’s the giant race.
Lots of times a king or some such famous or import person was like that, and everyone starts to copy them at a fashion.
The pictures in the article show the guy holding the skulls with his bare hands. Unless those are replicas, and the original skulls have been handled only by people wearing gloves, the “European and Middle Eastern” DNA signatures are most likely from people handling the skulls. Considering those skulls were found in 1928, long before anyone had the idea of protecting samples from contamination by researchers, there has been plenty of opportunity to contaminate those skulls. I do not discount that people might have come to the Americas across the Atlantic in prehistoric times, but this “analysis” does not add to any evidence in support of this hypothesis.
In addition, Marzulli describes the foramen magnum as being positioned further back than one finds in a normal human skull. This is to support his “hypothesis” that these are some kind of human-alien hybrid, I suppose. But looking at the position of the foramen magnum in the skull he is holding and comparing it with normal skulls, it is apparent that the only reason the structure looks like it is further back is because of the skull deformation. The mass of the skull and its volume do not change because of intentional deformation, but the proportions of height x depth x width do change. In order to make the skulls longer, they had to be made narrower. And that shifting of mass came in part from the back of the skull—thus, resulting in a shorter distance from the foramen magnum to the “new” back of the skull. The distance of the foramen magnum to the jawline is consistent with that of normal skulls, confirming that the position of the structure is consistent with known human anatomy.
Anyway, despite his paying for DNA analysis services, this guy is not a scientist and can’t pass himself off as one on TV. He’s just another crackpot coming up with a zany idea, looking for “evidence” to support it.
No silly Coneheads are from France.
That is indeed an elongated skull. But do they date back as far as 2,000 years ago, or 3,000 years ago? The article says both.
Amazing.
This picture explains the current WH occupants...
Annunaki from planet Niburu! (Factoid: Man’s fascination with gold stems from the reason the Annunaki came to Earth from Niburu!)
Very interesting, exDemMom.
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