{"id":3923499,"date":"2026-01-09T09:05:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T14:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/alien-like-elongated-skulls-discovered-in-croatia-similar-to-finds-across-the-globe\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T09:05:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T14:05:12","slug":"alien-like-elongated-skulls-discovered-in-croatia-similar-to-finds-across-the-globe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/alien-like-elongated-skulls-discovered-in-croatia-similar-to-finds-across-the-globe\/","title":{"rendered":"Alien-like elongated skulls discovered in Croatia similar to finds across the globe"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Archaeologists were recently exploring in Croatia when the happened upon something that immediately caught their eye and has subsequently set off debate about what they found, according to Ancient Origins<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n

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\u201c(The researchers) unearthed three ancient\u00a0alien-like<\/a>\u00a0skeletons and two have \u00a0artificially elongated skulls. Since 12,000-years-ago in ancient China, all over the ancient world, from Eurasia and across Africa to South America, people deliberately deformed the shapes of their children\u2019s skulls.<\/p>\n

\u201cMost archaeologists associate this with an effort to identify one\u2019s cultural origins and\/or to indicate social status. Using tightly tied leather and cloths, earth filled bag-headdresses, or rigid wooden blocks, skulls could be altered into bizarre shapes if the method was applied to malleable<\/a> infant\u2019s skulls when they still had plasticity.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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The burial pit where the individuals were found (Via PLOS.org<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Elongated skulls have been found before, most notably the Paracas skulls<\/a> unearthed along the coast of Peru. For years, it was speculated that the Paracas skulls were proof that aliens did indeed visit Earth.<\/p>\n

The Croatian skulls turned out to be of children aged between 12 and 16. They had lived between 415 and 560 AD and suffered from malnutrition. And all died suddenly, according to researchers:<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe team of scientist believe they could have had a disease like the plague \u2018that killed them quickly and didn\u2019t leave any traces on their bones.\u2019 It is known that they died at the same time as the Great Migration Period, a very turbulent period in European history when after the fall of the Roman Empire\u00a0<\/a>entirely new cultures arrived in\u00a0Europe<\/a> with new traditions.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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CT reconstruction showing one of the elongated skulls (Via PLOS.org<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After further examination of the skulls, it was determined that that one of the skulls belonged to a child of West Eurasian ancestry and didn\u2019t contain any cranial elongation.<\/p>\n

A second skull showed a person of East Asian ancestry who had \u201coblique deformation\u201d meaning that the skull was elongated\u00a0 upward.<\/p>\n

The third child was of Near Asian ancestry and had circular-erect type\u00a0cranial deformation. In this soft of deformation, the bone behind the forehead is flattened, which increased the height of the skull \u201csignificantly.\u201d<\/p>\n

During the period in which these children are believed to have lived, skull elongation was common<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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\u201c(In) the migration period of Europe (4 th<\/sup>\u00a0\u2013 7\u00a0th<\/sup> century AD) \u2026 the practice of intentional cranial modification \u2018was common among several nomadic groups, but was strongly associated with the Huns from the Carpathian Basin in Hungary, where modified crania are abundant in archaeological sites.’\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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CT scans of the so-called circular-erect type cranial deformation (Via PLOS.org<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Deformation of skulls was practiced by the Huns during a period around 453 AD. But why was this done? Merely for cosmetic reasons, or was there another purpose?<\/p>\n

Oddly enough, it\u2019s now believed that skull elongation was a sort of status symbol among ancient peoples which \u201chelped foster a sense of community and collective identity.\u201d<\/p>\n

There is evidence to support<\/a> such a hypothesis:<\/p>\n

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\u201cBioarchaeologist Matthew Velasco of Cornell University said that some 300 years before the Inca Empire\u00a0<\/a>swept the southwestern\u00a0Americas<\/a> the powerful social elite in a small ethnic community known as the \u2018Collagua<\/a>,\u2019\u00a0who lived in the Colca Valley in south-eastern Peru<\/a>, intentionally shaped their heads to \u2018polarize other groups, resulting in social inequality.’\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Child in the process of having its head flattened, and an adult after the process (Via Trz\u0119sacz \/Public Domain<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Accounts from Spanish explorers also mention a group known as the \u2018Cavanas,\u2019who also deformed their skulls, but not the tall, narrow way the Collagua did. Instead, the Cavanas \u201cmodified their skulls by widening and flattening them.\u201d<\/p>\n

While such cranial modifications seem bizarre to us when we examine thousands of years after they occurred, they may well have helped<\/a> ancient people build a sense of community and better fit into the places they lived, even assuring cooperation which led to their survival:<\/p>\n

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\u201cThese studies all suggest head shaping among those with power may have paved the way for a \u2018peaceful incorporation for the Collagua into the Inca Empire\u2019 and that standardization of head-shaping practices echoes broader patterns of identity formation across the south-central highlands<\/a>. What\u2019s more, it may have provided \u2018a symbolic basis for the cooperation of elite groups during an era of intensive conflict.’\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Survival is man\u2019s most basic instinct, and humans will do whatever is necessary to protect themselves and their families. That even includes something as strange as changing the shape of their skulls. It doesn\u2019t prove alien life on Earth, but it does reinforce the notion that mankind is resilient and ever changing as conditions warrant.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s more on cranial modification<\/em><\/p>\n

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YouTube Video Here: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/maaX8VvOOtQ?start=1&feature=oembed<\/p>\n

Archaeologists were recently exploring in Croatia when the happened upon something that immediately caught their eye and has subsequently set off debate about what they found, according to Ancient Origins:<\/p>\n

\u201c(The researchers) unearthed three ancient alien-like skeletons and two have artificially elongated skulls. Since 12,000-years-ago in ancient China, all over […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3923499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ancient-code","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3923499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3923499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3923499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3923499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}