How DNA Testing Revealed European Ancestry in Elongated Paracas Skulls
DNA tests of the Paracas elongated skulls revealed European and Middle Eastern origins, but is this such a shock?
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DNA tests of the Paracas elongated skulls revealed European and Middle Eastern origins, but is this such a shock?
Paracas is a desert peninsula located within the Pisco Province in the Inca Region, on the south coast of Peru.
The elongated skulls of Paracas in Peru caused a stir in 2014 when a geneticist that carried out preliminary DNA testing reported that they have mitochondrial DNA “with mutations unknown in any human,
Kanawha Valley, West Virginia : “No 11 is now 35 by 40 feet at the base and 4 feet high. In the center, 3 feet below the surface, was a vault 8 feet long and 3 feet wide. In the bottom of this, among the decayed fragments of bark wrappings, lay a skeleton fully 7 feet long, extended at full length on the back, head west…. Nineteen feet from the top…in the remains of a bark coffin, a skeleton, measuring 7.5 feet in length and 19 inches across the shoulders, was discovered”. (12th Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology) “Within the village of Brownstown, ten miles above Charleston ...