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Paracas is a desert in the Ica Region, Peru.......is where archaeologist, Julio Tello, discovered in 1928, massive tombs filled with the remains of individuals with the largest elongated skulls found anywhere in the world. Tello found over 300 of these elongated skulls, believed to date back around 3,000 years.
The skulls' cranial volume is 25% larger and 60% heavier than human skulls, meaning they could not have been intentionally deformed through head binding/flattening. They also contain only one parietal plate, rather than two.
Mr. Juan Navarro, owner of Paracas History Museum, which houses a collection of 35 of the Paracas skulls, allowed the taking of samples from 5 of the skulls.
The samples consisted of hair, including roots, a tooth, skull bone and skin, and this process was carefully documented via photos and video. The samples to a geneticist in Texas for DNA testing.
The reports on the geneticist's findings:
It had mitochondrial DNA with mutations unknown in any human, primate, or animal known so far. It doesn't fit into the known evolutionary tree and the Paracas individuals were so biologically different, they would not have been able to interbreed with humans.
The skulls' cranial volume is 25% larger and 60% heavier than human skulls, meaning they could not have been intentionally deformed through head binding/flattening. They also contain only one parietal plate, rather than two.
Mr. Juan Navarro, owner of Paracas History Museum, which houses a collection of 35 of the Paracas skulls, allowed the taking of samples from 5 of the skulls.
The samples consisted of hair, including roots, a tooth, skull bone and skin, and this process was carefully documented via photos and video. The samples to a geneticist in Texas for DNA testing.
The reports on the geneticist's findings:
It had mitochondrial DNA with mutations unknown in any human, primate, or animal known so far. It doesn't fit into the known evolutionary tree and the Paracas individuals were so biologically different, they would not have been able to interbreed with humans.
