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Dan, on DeDunking, says the Paracas skulls from Peru do not yield a simple answer. In the 1920s a burial ground opened by an archaeologist named Julio produced hundreds of funerary bundles and skulls famous for their length. One is described as 28 centimeters long, with a stated capacity of 1655 cubic centimeters. Extreme examples seem to lack the sagittal suture, and many show signs that the cranium was reshaped. The rest of the video is paperwork. Bundle counts swing between figures such as 429 and 451, and sizes do not match. He thinks shifting inventories let objects vanish. Remains traveled abroad, and pieces are still unaccounted for. Later keepers opened many bundles and wrote up only a few. He suspects the striking skulls were split or sold. A DNA note he discusses came from badly degraded material, too thin to explain the shape. He is not issuing a verdict on a people. He thinks the oddest remains may never be public again, and that neither museum files nor online testers have shown data he trusts.
Key points
- The video presents the Paracas skulls as unusually long, often without a sagittal suture, and sometimes reshaped.
- Dan lists alien, unknown human, and deformity guesses and does not choose among them.
- Bundle counts and sizes contradict one another, which he reads as cover for things that went missing.
- After a coup and years of thin funding, he says remains were moved, poorly stored, and only partly written up.
- He suspects the most striking skulls were opened and sold rather than studied in public.
- Degraded DNA, on his account, does not explain the shape, and he does not trust unverified test claims.
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sagittal suture comes up missing from the more extreme specimens many of these skulls had evidence of cranial
DeDunking, Elongated Skulls from Peru
He treats a missing suture, and signs the bone was reshaped, as what makes the extreme skulls odd. Watch at 1:52
artifacts and stuff that they had from these funerary bundles and they record a handful of the actual details
DeDunking, Elongated Skulls from Peru
His complaint is that the people who handled the bundles wrote down only a few real details. Watch at 10:10
obviously focusing on the truncations seen in many of the specimens in 1949 she opened the bundle up in the United
DeDunking, Elongated Skulls from Peru
A later exhibit, he says, zeroed in on the shortened crania rather than on a full inventory. Watch at 14:46
skulls was tested and results came back from 12 the DNA was so badly degraded
DeDunking, Elongated Skulls from Peru
A genetic test enters his account only as a degraded sample, not as a result he accepts. Watch at 22:02
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