According to DNA tests, the Paracas skulls are not of human origin.
The desert peninsula of Paracas is located
on the southern coast of one of South America’s most enigmatic
countries: Peru. It is there, in this barren landscape where Peruvian
archeologist Julio Tello made one of the most mysterious discoveries in
1928. During excavations, Tello uncovered a complex and sophisticated
graveyard under the harsh soil of the Paracas desert.
In the enigmatic tombs, Tello
discovered a set of controversial human remains that would forever
change how we look at our ancestor and our origins. The bodies in the
tombs had some of the largest elongated skulls ever discovered on the
planet, called the Paracas skulls. The Peruvian archeologist discovered
over 300 mysterious skulls which are believed to be at least around 3000
years old.
As if the shape of the skulls wasn’t
mysterious enough, a recent DNA analysis performed on some of the skulls
presented some of the most enigmatic and incredible results that
challenge everything we know about the origin and human evolutionary
tree.
Skull Deformation: An Ancient religious practice
While several cultures around the globe
practices skull deformation (elongation), the techniques used were
different, meaning the results were also not the same. There are certain
South American tribes that used to ‘bind infants skulls’ in order to
change their shape, resulting in a drastically elongated cranial shape
that resembled anything but ordinary humans. By applying constant
pressure over a long period of time with the use of pieces of mood, the
ancient tribes would achieve a cranial deformation which can also be
found in ancient cultures from Africa. However, while this type of
cranial deformation changed the shape of the skull, it did not alter the
size, weight or cranial volume, all of which are characteristic traits
of regular human skulls.
This is where the details about the
Paracas skulls gets interesting. The Paracas skulls are anything but
ordinary. The cranium of the Paracas skulls is are least 25 % larger and
up to 60% heavier than the skulls of regular human beings. Researchers
firmly believe that these traits could not have been achieved through
head bindings as some scientists suggest. Not only are they different in
weight, the Paracas skulls are also structurally different and only
have one parietal plate while ordinary humans have two.
These strange characteristics have further
deepened the decade-old mystery surrounding the Paracas skulls and
researchers still have no idea what they were in the past.
Further Testing
The director of the Paracas Museum of
History sent five samples of the Paracas skulls to undergo genetic
testing, and the results were mesmerizing. The samples which consisted
of hair, skin teeth and some fragments of cranial bones gave incredible
details that have fueled the mystery surrounding these anomalous skulls.
The genetic laboratory to where the samples were sent was not informed
of the origin of the skulls in order to avoid ‘influenced results’.
Interestingly, the mitochondrial DNA,
which is inherited from the mother, showed mutations that were unknown
to any man, primate or animal found on planet Earth. The mutations
present in the samples of the Paracas skulls suggest that researchers
were dealing with a completely new ‘human-like being’, very different
from Homo sapiens, Neanderthals or Denisovans.
Brien Foerster reported the following on the geneticist’s findings:
It had mtDNA (mitochondrial DNA) with
mutations unknown in any human, primate, or animal known so far. But a
few fragments I was able to sequence from this sample indicate that if
these mutations will hold we are dealing with a new human-like creature,
very distant from Homo sapiens, Neanderthals, and Denisovans.
According to reports, the individuals
from the Paracas skulls were so biologically different that it would
have been impossible for humans and them to ‘interbreed’. “I am not
sure it will even fit into the known evolutionary tree,” the geneticist
wrote.
Who were these mysterious beings? Did they
evolve separately on Earth? What caused them to have such drastic
differences from ordinary humans? And is it possible that these beings
are actually not from Earth? All of these possibilities are theories
that cannot be overruled given the current testing. The only thing that
we know so far is that there are many things out there that go far
beyond the understanding of researchers, historians, and scientists. It
is possible that after all, the question of whether we are alone in the
universe can be answered thanks to the Paracas skulls.
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