Visual Analysis of Elongated Skulls

[Amud]

http://www.sunnyskyz.com/uploads/2014/02/ulta8-elongated.jpg

In this post, I am going to demonstrate why I believe the elongated skulls found in Paracas, Peru represent a distinct strain of humanity that is separate from Peruvian Amerindians and has many strange characteristics.

Note: I do not believe that they are aliens, supernatural visitors, or anything of the sort. I think that they are a strain of humanity (a race or subspecies) characterized by a very large cranial volume and certain craniofacial abnormalities.

To start with, it is commonly supposed that these skulls were artificially deformed by practices such as head binding or cradle boarding. I have no doubt that many of them are artificially deformed. However, some of the skulls show characteristics that would not be possible to produce through artificial deformation.

According to many sources, the skulls are 25% larger and 60% heavier than a typical human skull. Unfortunately, I was not able to find an academic citation for this figure, but visual examination shows that they do indeed appear unusually large. An increase of 25% cranial volume would probably put them at around 1750cc. This is a plausible figure. Amud 1 (the skull shown in my avatar) had a volume of 1740 CC, and the Boskopoid skulls of South Africa were even a bit larger than that. Thus, we know it is possible for a human to have a skull in that size range.

Now, we will examine what regular Peruvian Amerindian skulls look like.

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http://www.pasthorizons.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/trophy-skull.jpg
http://davidpratt.info/americas/andes3%20trepan.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f6/Trop%C3%A4henkopf_Nazca_Slg_Ebn%C3%B6ther.jpg
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-D9tg7URfrGA/UT9MUG4H57I/AAAAAAAAJXA/4XY4SW6styI/s1600/362E-Image+Trepanned+Skulls.jpg

Key things to note: The orbits appear to be angular, and of regular height. The nasal bridge project strongly outward, forming a small angle with the forehead, similar to Neanderthal skulls.

Now, let's look at some elongated skulls.

http://cdn.ancient-origins.net/cdn/farfuture/-B21qRGAV-wJ_W05y_4hHr6ieWuBscJ8FOgmT7ZWzvw/mtime:1391608036/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/image/elongated-skull-paracas.jpg?itok=7Sm-clK2
http://cdn.ancient-origins.net/cdn/farfuture/AokvPIkv5VET6hc_nF5XsybPn_UYi4pgeYkRU-GIJj8/mtime:1365523034/sites/default/files/Paracas-skull-with-extreme-deformation.jpg
http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/xT8DwjbgBMc/hqdefault.jpg
http://www.michaelsheiser.com/PaleoBabble/skullreplica.jpg

Notice how on these skulls, the temporal lines are clearly marked. Those are the ridges that come up the sides of the forehead. The regular Amerindian skulls do not have these. Also, these ridges meet at the top of the forehead, where there is a prominent bump. In contrast to the normal skulls, the orbitals are taller and rounder, and the nasal bridge is more parallel with the forehead, rather than projecting outwards.

Here's an example of a Peruvian skull that was clearly of the regular Amerindian type, but artificially deformed:

http://hiddenincatours.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/add067b4-ebf9-4b17-92e5-e38ae7c6bc16.gif

There is marked contrast with the true elongated skulls.

Here is a mummy from Peru. The skull is not elongated to the extremes of some of the previous examples, but elongation is still there.

http://bp3.blogger.com/_IcHvTt8c83w/R4sQ0imUvVI/AAAAAAAAABs/aZUeTQAvhHc/S220/mummy+7.BMP

Note how its facial features match up with the ones shown earlier with tall and very rounded orbits, the marked temporal lines, and the bump at the top of the forehead.


Here is another Amerindian skull that appears to be deformed:

http://www.skullsunlimited.com/userfiles/image/category5_species_1959_large_4.jpg

As you can see, there are two distinct types here. Both have elongated skulls, but they are very different from each other. One seems to be a crude imitation of the other, produced by head binding.

Here are some modern day people with artificially elongated skulls:

http://38.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lj76pccSuE1qcs20po1_500.jpg
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https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRacRWwjz-FNHETsn_WwXLvV21eaRCmBKEuydiMMaRG46Y7m1dtHw


Notice how their "cones" are much smaller in size than the Peruvian skulls.

Simply put, head binding does not result in these huge, elongated cones like we see with the Paracas skulls.

Here is the skeleton of a child found in Paracas. Notice how its head is visibly larger than that of the adult man holding it.

http://lissakr11humanelife.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/resized-ka623.jpg?w=545

Here is another skull of a child from Paracas. This shape would have been impossible to produce via deformation, as it is bowed out at the sides but does not appear flattened at the top.

http://hiddenincatours.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/31.jpg

The overly bulbous skulls of the children are not found on the adults. This may indicate that their skull shape naturally changed as they grew, or it could indicate that they had a tradition of horizontally compressing their children's skulls to create a taller and narrow appearance.

Another idea is that the face widened as they grew, but the cranium did not widen, or only widened at a decreased rate relative to the face, so that the end result did not have the bulbous shape.

Here's another child skull, with the same bulbous shape. (Ignore the silly reconstruction, I do not believe they actually looked like that). This appears to be the same child that is being held by the man in the picture above.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NsS_cCuJi5M/Uvq29PXbFtI/AAAAAAAAch4/wE6zymAePI4/s1600/Alien+Elongated+Skull+paracas+inca+peru+Elongated+ Skulls+Brien+Foerster+aliens+extraterrestres+2014. jpg

Another child:

http://www.shiftfrequency.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/AlienSkullCuscoPeru2.jpg

Note how the characteristic forehead ridges and bump are already visible, even at such a young age.

In conclusion, this visual evidence shows that some of the elongated skulls have very different characteristics from regular Peruvians, including cranial volume, facial features and pigmentation, and they do not appear to have been produced by artificial deformation, except for the possibility of a slight horizontal compression to reduce the bulbous shape found in children. This means that, like Amud and Boskop, they represent a strain of humanity with markedly larger brains than humans today. I propose that this was the result of artificial selection or eugenics among an inbred ruling caste, leading to greatly improved intelligence and cranial capacity.

[Kale]

1) I have yet to see an elongated skull with significantly enhanced volume. The cranial length is shortened proportional to the increase in the height.
2) There are multiple types of deformation, which can deform in various ways. The African lady's deformation seems to have effected her eye sockets in some way. The top end of the sockets seem to be stretched back and are higher.
3) The one that is bowed at the sides but is not flattened at the top could have had just a single back plate, flatting the occiput.
4) The blond hair in one skull means nothing if it was left in the Peruvian desert exposed for a couple years. Sunlight destroys pigment. I have been growing my hair out for 2 years, and the tips are now starting to blond.

[Amud]

1) I have yet to see an elongated skull with significantly enhanced volume. The cranial length is shortened proportional to the increase in the height.
2) There are multiple types of deformation, which can deform in various ways. The African lady's deformation seems to have effected her eye sockets in some way. The top end of the sockets seem to be stretched back and are higher.
3) The one that is bowed at the sides but is not flattened at the top could have had just a single back plate, flatting the occiput.
4) The blond hair in one skull means nothing if it was left in the Peruvian desert exposed for a couple years. Sunlight destroys pigment. I have been growing my hair out for 2 years, and the tips are now starting to blond.

1. See picture
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http://www.theapricity.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=48986&d=1404964316

2. None of the Paracas elongated skulls have this type of eye socket, though. The orbitals are higher and rounder than the normal Amerindian examples, but they do not appear to be stretched or deformed in any way. Also, the purpose of those examples was to show that there is a HUGE visible difference between the apparent size of the cranium when comparing these true deformed skulls to the Paracas skulls.

3. The 1st and 4th child pictures are of the same individual. Note how in the front view, you can see the bulging out to the side, and in the profile view where it is being held by the man, the occiput does not appear flattened. Anyway, flattening the occiput does not create this huge, voluminous appearance to the cranium.

This is what that type of deformation looks like:
http://www.nordish.org/bilder/troe413.jpg

FIG. 3 (3 views). A Syrian from the district of Beka'a, with a cephalic index of almost 100. His extraordinary shortness of the cranial vault must be partly due to cradling, a practice which has affected the head form of many Syrians, Armenians, and also probably some Albanians. Cradling, however, is not the cause of Dinaricization, but merely a factor which may intensify it.

Not even remotely comparable.

4. Amerindians have jet black / blue-black Mongoloid hair. That will never bleach to blond in the sun. Maybe a Caucasoid brown hair type could become blond with exposure.

[Kale]

1) Doesn't really help that the control skull is not at a perfect profile view. The skull would appear longer if it was.
2) Did a quick comparison. "Genuine skull" http://www.michaelsheiser.com/PaleoBabble/skullreplica.jpg has a cranial area/facial height ratio of 407:1
"Deformed skull" http://www.skullsunlimited.com/userfiles/image/category5_species_1959_large_4.jpg has a cranial area/facial height ratio of 437:1....the fake one has a bigger skull.
3) The flared sides of course aren't going to be as visible in a rather robust, or at least large faced Syrian man, in comparison to a highly gracile Peruvian.
4) Well, they are part caucasoid (you know the whole Mal'ta deal), Some of them do indeed have dark brown hair.

[Amud]

1) Doesn't really help that the control skull is not at a perfect profile view. The skull would appear longer if it was.
2) Did a quick comparison. "Genuine skull" http://www.michaelsheiser.com/PaleoBabble/skullreplica.jpg has a cranial area/facial height ratio of 407:1
"Deformed skull" http://www.skullsunlimited.com/userfiles/image/category5_species_1959_large_4.jpg has a cranial area/facial height ratio of 437:1....the fake one has a bigger skull.
3) The flared sides of course aren't going to be as visible in a rather robust, or at least large faced Syrian man, in comparison to a highly gracile Peruvian.
4) Well, they are part caucasoid (you know the whole Mal'ta deal), Some of them do indeed have dark brown hair.

How were you able to come up with this measurement? I would be interested to try the calculation myself.

Also, note that the skull that I'm considering fake has an extremely large mastoid process, while the skull I am considering real does not. Did you include the area of the mastoid process in that calculation?

[Kale]

How were you able to come up with this measurement? I would be interested to try the calculation myself.

Also, note that the skull that I'm considering fake has an extremely large mastoid process, while the skull I am considering real does not. Did you include the area of the mastoid process in that calculation?

I have a program called Paint.Net...it's free, kind of like Photoshop in some ways. And yes I did include the mastoid process...but it doesn't make a huge difference. The 'fake' skull, even without its mastoid process, has a proportionately larger skull than the 'real' one WITH its mastoid process.