PREHISTORIC HUMAN LINEAGE [6b]
Paracas skull number 44. Discovered in 2012, it has a weight of 2.8 pounds…25% heavier than the average adult male skull. It has a cranial capacity of 1,500 cubic centimeters…20% greater than normal. And it is missing a sagittal suture, the connective tissue joint found between the parietal bones in all human skulls. This is just one of hundreds of strange, misshapen skulls that have been found on the southern coast of Peru, dating back to 1927. It was at this time that archaeologist Julio Tello first excavated a massive burial complex, thought to have been built by the Paracas people who lived in the region from 800 BC to 100 BC.
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“Julio C. Tello was the father of Peruvian archaeology, and in the 1920s, he discovered mummy bundles. And in each mummy bundle was a person with an elongated skull. They were buried in family mausoleums, in some cases as deep as 30 feet into the bedrock.” – Brien Foerster |
Mainstream archaeologists say the elongation is most likely the result of head binding, which involves wrapping the heads of infants while their skulls are still soft in order to change the shape. It is a practice found in numerous cultures throughout the world that dates back thousands of years. But why would people desire to elongate the heads of their children? Ancient Astronaut Theorists suggest that head binding originated with primitive humans who were attempting to imitate the appearance of extraterrestrial visitors. But according to researcher Brien Foerster, the assistant director of the Paracas History Museum, head binding would not account for the other anomalies that the Paracas skulls exhibit.
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“About five percent of the elongated skulls that we find in Paracas are so complex in shape and size that it’s hard to believe that they’re the result of any form of cranial deformation or head binding. Not only are they elongated vertically, but also the eye sockets are much larger than normal. There are two holes in the back of the skull called foramen, through which blood and nerve flow occurred. And also their jaws were very robust.” – Brien Foerster |
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“Among the largest of them we find skulls 60% heavier than normal human skulls and a brain capacity that is 2.5 times larger than the normal human brain.” – David Wilcock (Author/Filmmaker), |
But if these elongated skulls were not the result of the ancient practice of head binding, then just who or what were these mysterious beings? In 2014, DNA testing was performed on Paracas skull number 44, which rendered surprising results.
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“Some initial DNA testing has been done, and the results, according to the geneticist, are quite startling. There were certain segments of the DNA that didn’t match anything known to be human. What it suggests to me is that Paracas could very well have been an ancient bloodline related to Homo sapiens but not specifically Homo sapiens itself.” – Brien Foerster |
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“When you look at this kind of archaeological evidence, you’re seeing concrete, tangible, DNA testable proof, that extraterrestrials walked on Earth right among us.” – David Wilcock (Author/Filmmaker), |
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“Personally, I think it is quite possible that what we have there are remnants of the so-called teachers that visited mankind in the remote past.” – Giorgio A. Tsoukalos |
Could it be that this skull and other similar skulls found in southern Peru are something other than human? While mainstream scholars continue to dismiss this possibility, there is now evidence that at one time the Earth was inhabited by other species that possessed intelligence equal to or even greater than humans.
Gibraltar. September 1, 2014. Inside Gorham’s Cave on the edge of the Mediterranean Sea, anthropologists announce a finding that fundamentally changes our understanding of early human history. A pattern of cross-hatched lines carved into the rock over 39,000 years ago is the first known example of cave art created not by our ancestors but by another intelligent species, the Neanderthals.
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“Previous to this, it was generally regarded that only anatomically modern humans had that capability, that cave paintings and etchings and making of figurines was really something that was restricted to modern humans. And so the Gibraltar site clearly indicates that Neanderthals had the capacity for symbolic representation.” – William R. Leonard, Ph.D. |
Like humans, Neanderthals are thought to have evolved from Homo erectus, but contrary to popular belief, they are not our ancestors. They were actually a separate species that lived alongside early humans.
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“More and more evidence is coming to light that suggests that Neanderthals were at least socially intelligent, at least thinking in symbolic behavior, and therefore may have even been, as far as we know, may have been even more intelligent than-than us.” – Tok Thompson, Ph.D. (Prof. of Anthropology, USC) |
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“We find lots of evidence that Neanderthals used tools, perhaps in different ways than we did. Certainly, the discovery of graves where flowers are buried. They loved their children just as we love ours. The technology available to them is only now being discovered.” – Peter Ward, Ph.D. (Astrobiologist / Paleontologist), |
DNA studies show that Neanderthals lived among modern humans for thousands of years and interbred with them before becoming extinct. And they were not the only other intelligent humanlike species in prehistoric times.
In 2003, scientists identified floresiensis known as the Hobbit people in Indonesia. And as recently as 2008, the species Denisovan hominin was discovered in southern Siberia.
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“What is intriguing about this find is the DNA evidence suggests that they are genetically distinct from both Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans, suggesting perhaps that at 40,000 years ago, you had as many as three different human forms on planet Earth.” – William R. Leonard, Ph.D. |
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“You know, there absolutely have to be still unknown human lineages out there. Whether they are totally different species or varieties. I’m sure that the paleontologists of the present day and the near future will find more of our family tree.” – Peter Ward, Ph.D. (Astrobiologist / Paleontologist), |
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“What we’re now seeing a Lord of the Rings type situation in which there are multiple hominid populations coexisting on Earth at the same time. When we look at the Denisovans, we’re seeing that they actually have traces in their DNA of a species that is completely unlike anything we’ve seen anywhere else on Earth. We don’t know where it comes from, and we don’t know who these people are. It’s a complete baffling mystery.” – David Wilcock (Author/Filmmaker), |
Did Neanderthals and other ancient hominids possess capabilities on par with, or perhaps even exceeding, those of our human ancestors? And if science is only now discovering the truth about these species, then what other forms of intelligent life may have also roamed the Earth thousands of years ago? Might humans have shared the Earth with, and interbred with, species not indigenous to this planet? Ancient Astronaut Theorists suggest there may be further clues to be found with Paracas skull number 44, by reconstructing its face.
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