The elongated skulls of Paracas in Peru precipitated a stir in 2014 when a geneticist that carried out preliminary DNA testing reported that they’ve mitochondrial DNA “with mutations unknown in any human, primate, or animal identified to date”. A second spherical of DNA testing was accomplished in 2016 and the outcomes nearly as controversial – the skulls examined, which date again so far as 2,000 years, had been proven to have European and Center Jap Origin. It was claimed these stunning outcomes would change the identified historical past about how the Americas had been populated. However did they?

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The Discovery of the Paracas Cranium Graveyard

Paracas is a desert peninsula positioned inside Pisco Province on the south coast of Peru.  It’s right here the place Peruvian archaeologist, Julio Tello, made an incredible discovery in 1928 – a large and elaborate graveyard containing tombs full of the stays of people with the biggest elongated skulls discovered anyplace on the planet. These have come to be often known as the ‘Paracas skulls’. In complete, Tello discovered greater than 300 of those elongated skulls, a few of which date again round 3,000 years.

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Elongated skulls on show at Museo Regional de Ica within the metropolis of Ica in Peru (Marcin Tlustochowicz from Poland/CC BY 2.0)

Unusual Options of the Paracas Skulls

It’s well-known that almost all instances of cranium elongation are the results of cranial deformation, head flattening, or head binding, by which the cranium is deliberately deformed by making use of power over an extended time period. It’s normally achieved by binding the top between two items of wooden, or binding in fabric. Nevertheless, whereas cranial deformation modifications the form of the cranium, it doesn’t alter different options which are attribute of an everyday human cranium.

In a 2016 interview with Historic Origins, writer and researcher LA Marzulli describes how a few of the Paracas skulls are totally different to unusual human skulls:

“There’s a chance that it might need been cradle head boarded, however the purpose why I don’t assume so is as a result of the place of the foramen magnum is again in direction of the rear of the cranium. A standard foramen magnum could be nearer to the jaw line…”

LA Marzulli factors to the place of the foramen magnum in a Paracas cranium which can also be the purpose at which they drilled to be able to extract bone powder for DNA testing. (Historic Origins interview picture)

Marzulli defined that an archaeologist has written a paper about his examine of the place of the foramen magnum in over 1000 skulls:

“He states that the Paracas skulls, the place of the foramen magnum is totally totally different than a traditional human being, it’s also smaller, which lends itself to our principle that this isn’t cradle head boarding, that is genetic.”

As well as, Marzulli described how a few of the Paracas skulls have a really pronounced zygomatic arch (cheek bone), totally different eye sockets and no sagittal suture, which is a connective tissue joint between the 2 parietal bones of the cranium.

The pronounced cheek bones could be seen in artist Marcia Moore’s interpretation of how the Paracas individuals regarded primarily based on a digital reconstruction from the skulls. (Marcia Moore / Ciamar Studio)

“In a traditional human cranium, there must be a suture which fits from the frontal plate … clear over the dome of the cranium separating the parietal plates – the 2 separate plates – and connecting with the occipital plate within the rear,” stated Marzulli. “We see many skulls in Paracas which are fully devoid of a sagittal suture.

There’s a illness often known as craniosynostosis, which ends up in the fusing collectively of the 2 parietal plates, nevertheless, Marzulli stated there isn’t a proof of this illness within the Paracas skulls.

The sagittal suture, highlighted in pink, separates the 2 parietal plates (Public Domain)

LA Marzulli reveals the highest of one of many Paracas skulls, which has no sagittal suture. (Historic Origins interview picture)

DNA Testing

The late Sr. Juan Navarro, proprietor and director of the Museo Arqueologico Paracas, which homes a group of 35 of the Paracas skulls, allowed the taking of samples from three of the elongated skulls for DNA testing, together with one toddler. One other pattern was obtained from a Peruvian cranium that had been within the US for 75 years. One of many skulls was dated to round 2,000 years outdated, whereas one other was 800 years outdated.

The samples consisted of hair and bone powder, which was extracted by drilling deeply into the foramen magnum. This course of, Marzulli defined, is to cut back the chance of contamination. As well as, full protecting clothes was worn.

The samples had been then despatched to 3 separate labs for testing – one in Canada, and two in the USA. The geneticists had been solely instructed that the samples got here from an historical mummy, in order to not create any preconceived concepts.

LA Marzulli holding up a duplicate of one of many Paracas skulls that was examined. (Historic Origins interview picture)

Shocking Outcomes…or had been they?

From the samples, solely the mitochondrial DNA (DNA from the mom’s facet) may very well be extracted. Out of 4 hair samples, considered one of them couldn’t be sequenced. The remaining three hair samples all confirmed a Haplogroup (genetic inhabitants group) of H2A, which is discovered most incessantly in Jap Europe, and at a low frequency in Western Europe. The bone powder from probably the most elongated cranium examined got here again as T2B, which originates in Mesopotamia and what’s now Syria, primarily the guts of the fertile crescent. “It rewrites historical past as we all know it,” stated Marzulli.

“If these outcomes maintain,” writes Brien Foerster on his web site Hidden Inca Tours, “the historical past of the migration of individuals to the Americas is way extra advanced than we have now been instructed beforehand.”

If these outcomes are confirmed via additional exams, it signifies that peoples from Europe and the Center East migrated to the Americas lengthy earlier than it’s conventionally believed. It is a large discovery, and but so far as Historic Origins can set up, no additional testing has been carried out.

Marzulli stated that mainstream teachers will in all probability assault these outcomes by pointing to the truth that he’s not a scientist, however he urges any skeptic to duplicate the examine.

“Assault the proof of us. Go down and get your individual samples, pay for a DNA lab after which come again to me together with your science… do some science like we’ve carried out,” he stated.

The total lab stories of the DNA exams can be found in LA Marzulli’s guide Nephilim Hybrids.

Now, though these outcomes do appear stunning, DNA native to Europeans present in native People shouldn’t be distinctive too this DNA end result.

In an article, published  in 2013 (earlier than this testing) about DNA present in Native People, linking them with Europe. The report writes:

‘’…from the whole nuclear genome of a Siberian boy who died 24,000 years in the past – the oldest full genome of a contemporary human sequenced so far. His DNA reveals clse ties to these of right this moment’s Native People. But he apparently descended not from East Asians, however from individuals who had arrived in Europe or Western Asia…the discovering means that a few third of the ancestry of right this moment’s Native People could be traced to ‘western Eurasia’”

As mainstream archaeology states South America was populated by migration south from North America (round 16-19000 years in the past), it’s maybe not such a shock to search out European DNA in South American DNA, simply has been present in North American DNA.

The Debate Continues

Within the YouTube video “Full Examination of the Historic Paracas Folks of Peru Together with DNA Outcomes and Blood Checks,”, first aired in 2017, Brian Forester particulars his ideas on the outcomes of the DNA testing which he and his associates commissioned.

He stories that the outcomes revealed that 4 of the elongated skulls belonged to Hao Group B, indicating Native American ancestry, whereas the opposite skulls didn’t match this group. The most typical Hao teams recognized had been U2e and H1a, that are predominantly discovered within the Black Sea and Caspian Sea areas.

Forestago,means that the Paracas individuals could have originated from the Caucasus area round 3,000 years in the past and migrated to the coast of Peru. This proposal factors to a major historical migration sample, revealing European and Eurasian haplogroups, which challenges standard tutorial views.

However What In regards to the Hair?

The outcomes may assist clarify the truth that most of the Paracas skulls nonetheless include traces of pink hair, a shade that’s not natively present in South America however originates within the Center East and Europe.

“No teachers so far as we will inform can clarify why a few of the skulls that also have hair are pink and even blonde,” writes Brien Foerster, “the concept that that is from time or bleaching has NOW been disproven by 2 hair consultants. For the traditional Paracas individuals, a minimum of, that they had blonde to reddish hair that’s 30% thinner than NATIVE American hair. It’s GENETIC!”

A Paracas cranium with its pink hair. ( Brien Foerster)

Simply to Point out the Further-terrestrial Speculation

As a result of uncommon form and options of the Paracas skulls, there has lengthy been hypothesis that they’re extra-terrestrial in origin, and plenty of have hoped that DNA testing would show that to be the case.

“As regards an “alien” element or ancestry to the skulls, we could by no means know,” writes Brien Foerster. “The DNA testing packages can solely examine pattern DNA with these which are identified, and people are held in an enormous database known as Gentech within the US. Additional testing with cooperation from Peruvian archaeologists and the Ministry of Tradition are ongoing.”

However, LA Marzulli defined that the DNA outcomes match completely with the speculation he has held since earlier than any testing was undertaken. That’s that the Paracas persons are the Nephilim. The Nephilim, in accordance with historical Biblical texts, are the offspring of the Fallen Angels and the ladies of earth, leading to a hybrid entity, and so they stated to be primarily based within the space of the Levant, the identical place that the Paracas DNA traces to.

Whether or not or not this speculation has any advantage, the outcomes of the DNA exams had been definitely dramatic, and additional testing could assist to unravel the advanced historical past of the Paracas individuals.

Prime picture: A Paracas elongated cranium and an artist’s impression primarily based on a digital reconstruction. Supply: Marcia Moore / Ciamar Studio

This text was up to date on 21-5-2024 so as to add additional particulars from the 2013 Science report.

By Joanna Gillan