This is not human ancestors

Desert Paracas is located on a peninsula in the province of Pisco on the south coast of Peru. It was here that in 1928 the Peruvian archaeologist Julio Tello made a surprising discovery. He found extensive artfully arranged cemetery with graves containing the remains of people with the greatest elongated skulls in the world! Similar skulls nobody had never found. They became known as "skull Paracas».

In general, Tello found about 300 such skulls, which should be about 3000 years old. Recently, on one of the skulls were analyzed DNA. Expert Brian Foster gave some preliminary information regarding the mysterious skulls.

For the most part, the elongated skull - the result of deliberate deformation of the skull by binding or squeeze head and impacts for a long time. This effect sought, bandage head between two planks, or pulling his head with a cloth. Such a method naturally changes the shape of the skull, but the volume, weight and other characteristic traits of the human skull remained unchanged.

However, with the skulls of Paracas is not the case. Their volume is 25 percent larger and 60 percent heavier than the ordinary human skulls! This means that Paracas skull could not be intentionally deformed by the above, the use of plates or cloth. Furthermore, these are only one of the skull parietal surface while human skull has two (inner and outer). And because the features of these skulls are not the result of intentional deformation, the reason why the skulls have an elongated shape remains a mystery.

Juan Navarro - owner and director of the local museum Paracas History Museum, whose collection includes 35 skulls of Paracas, allowed to take samples from five skulls. The process of obtaining samples (hair, teeth, skin, bone) was carefully documented through photographs and videos. Samples of three skulls sent genetics, but genetics did not report any information about the origin of the skull to the completion of genetic testing.

DNA analysis of one of the skulls was completed and expert Brian Foster described the preliminary results of the analysis:

"The result showed the mitochondrial DNA of unknown mutations that no one person or the primacy of the animal. Perhaps we are dealing with a new human-like creatures, very distant from Homo sapiens, Neanderthals and Denisovans »

Brian did not believe that all this fits in the course of our evolution. He noted that people with such skulls has huge biological differences, but because they hardly could interbreed with humans.

The result of this analysis will be taken into account when carrying out further tests and possible future of the turtles Paracas will know more.
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