The Science Wars

In February 2017, Giorgio Tsoukalos met art collector Jared Collins outside an NYU anthropology lab to examine a 2,000-year-old elongated skull from the Paracas region of Peru. The skull had been sitting in museum storage for decades, never tested. Anthropologist Dr. Todd DeSotel conducted a forensic evaluation and immediately noticed something odd: the sagittal suture—the seam where the two parietal bones of the skull meet—appeared completely fused. In an adolescent skull roughly 12 to 14 years old, this is highly unusual. All human skulls, even artificially elongated ones, show some evidence of this feature. This one did not.

The problem with anomalous artifacts

The Paracas skull is one of many objects that challenge mainstream scientific timelines. Across the globe, researchers have found elongated skulls that cultures produced through head-binding, but those still retain cranial sutures. The question becomes: if ancient peoples were imitating a natural form, what were they imitating? Ancient astronaut theorists suggest the answer may be extraterrestrial visitors with naturally elongated heads.