Elongated Skulls From The Paracas Desert Turned Out To Be With Strange DNA

Video: Elongated Skulls From The Paracas Desert Turned Out To Be With Strange DNA

Video: Elongated Skulls From The Paracas Desert Turned Out To Be With Strange DNA
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Elongated Skulls From The Paracas Desert Turned Out To Be With Strange DNA
Elongated Skulls From The Paracas Desert Turned Out To Be With Strange DNA
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The extruded skulls from the Paracas Desert turned out to be with strange DNA - DNA, a skull. elongated skull
The extruded skulls from the Paracas Desert turned out to be with strange DNA - DNA, a skull. elongated skull

The Paracas Desert is located on a peninsula in the province of Pisco, on the southern coast of Peru. It was here in 1928 that the Peruvian archaeologist Julio Tello made an amazing discovery. He discovered a vast artfully designed cemetery, with graves containing the remains of people with the largest elongated skulls in the world! Nobody has ever found such skulls before. They became known as the "Skulls of Paracas".

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Overall, Tello found about 300 of these skulls, which must be about 3,000 years old. Recently, DNA was analyzed on one of the skulls. Expert Brian Foster gave some preliminary information regarding the mysterious skulls.

For the most part, elongated skulls are the result of deliberate deformation of the skull by tying or flattening the head and exposing it over a long period of time. This effect was achieved by bandaging the head between two planks, or by pulling the head with a cloth. This method naturally altered the shape of the skull, but the volume, weight, and other characteristics of the human skull remained unchanged.

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However, this is not the case with the skulls of Paracas. They are 25 percent larger and 60 percent heavier than common human skulls! This means that the skulls of Paracas could not be deformed deliberately in the way described above, using plates or cloth. In addition, these skulls have only one parietal surface, while human skulls have two (outer and inner). And since the features of these skulls are not the result of intentional deformation, the reason why the skulls are elongated remains a mystery.

Juann Navarro, owner and director of the local Paracas History Museum, which has a collection of 35 Paracas skulls, allowed samples to be taken from five skulls. The sampling process (hair, teeth, skin, bone) was carefully documented using photographs and videos. Samples of the three skulls were sent to geneticists, but the geneticists did not provide any information regarding the origin of the skulls until the completion of genetic testing.

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