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Ancient Origins, 5 February 2014, by April Holloway
Paracas is a desert peninsula located within the Pisco Province in the Ica Region, on the south coast of Peru. It is here were 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, which are believed to date back around 3,000 years. A DNA analysis has now been conducted on one of the skulls and expert Brien Foerster has released preliminary information regarding these enigmatic skulls.
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 its volume, weight, or other features that are characteristic of a regular human skull.
The Paracas skulls, however, are different. The cranial volume is up to 25 percent larger and 60 percent heavier than conventional human skulls, meaning they could not have been intentionally deformed through head binding/flattening. They also contain only one parietal plate, rather than two. The fact that the skulls’ features are not the result of cranial deformation means that the cause of the elongation is a mystery, and has been for decades.
Mr. Juan Navarro, owner and director of the local museum, called the 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 were sent to the late Lloyd Pye, founder of the Starchild Project, who delivered the samples to a geneticist in Texas for DNA testing.
The results are now back, and Brien Foerster, author of more than ten books and an authority on the ancient elongated headed people of South America, has just revealed the preliminary results of the analysis. He reports 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.
The implications are of cause huge. “I am not sure it will even fit into the known evolutionary tree,” the geneticist wrote. He added that if the Paracas individuals were so biologically different, they would not have been able to interbreed with humans.
The result of this analysis is only phase one of many phases of analysis due to take place. The next tests will involve having the initial test replicated, and conducted on other skulls, so that the results can be compared to see if there are any specific Paracas characteristics. We will update when more details emerge. ANCIENT ORIGINS
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Ancient Marinduque's common ancestry with the Mayans and lost civilizations
Posted on this blog July 30, 2012, reproduced below:
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"Like the skulls found in the island of Los Tres Reyes, (Marinduque), those of the cave of Pamin-Taan were deformed... (Marche, 1881)
Prior to Marche, it was the German-Russian naturalist Fedor Jagor who aroused public attention in the West in the 1860s with his discovery in Marinduque caves of deformed skulls. Up to that time nothing was known of such skulls in the oriental island world. The practice of compressing the head of a newborn child between two boards were purportedly done so that instead of looking round it would be lengthened out with the forehead also flattened, considered an ancient “special mark of beauty”
Similar deformed skulls were found by Marche in the caves of Los Tres Reyes, Pamintaan and Macayan (places explored by Marche in Marinduque). It is astonishing now to learn that the same goal of modifying the shape of the skull turning it into a cone-shaped one was also practiced in the ancient world, the world of the Egyptians, Incas and Mayans. As one who grew up in Marinduque, I've also heard about very large elongated craniums ("mahahaba ang bungo"), old people have supposedly seen in some of our caves (although I have not seen one myself).
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| The ancient Mayan Calendar. Does a common ancestry exist between these civilizations? It appears that there is much more to this than mere beauty. From Egypt to South America, and other places on earth such as Siberia, we find more astonishing new revelations that may lead to that conclusion. Intriguing quotes from a Russian archaeologist and scholars as shown in the following video: |
“The most likely explanation was that ancient communities deliberately deformed the skulls of infants, possibly with the intention of increasing mental abilities..”
“It’s unlikely that the ancients knew much about neuro-surgery but it’s possible that somehow they were able to develop exceptional brain capabilities.. these people were some form of living instrument who were able, for instance, to determine whether or not there was danger, as well as to predict the weather.”
"However, some uncertainty remains around the fact that the exact same deformation was practiced in different areas of the world, that at that time had no contact with each other..."
“The ancient Mayans depicted their Gods and ceremonial kings as having these cone-like heads..”
“The ancient Mayans depicted their Gods and ceremonial kings as having these cone-like heads..”
And a more astounding, incredible mixture of theories and ideas! Shades of Mara Unduk I should say. Watch this video from sumerian101!
