An archeological conundrum that has also challenged mainstream historical narratives are the Paracas skulls found in Peru. While the elongated skulls have been debated as to the nature of their shape and whether they come from a human or non-human species, some mystery remains, even within the realist perspective. Skeptics write off their shape to artificial cranial deformation practices of ancient civilizations, but DNA testing of the skulls placed their provenance in Europe and the Middle East. The skulls also weighed 60 percent more and were 25 percent larger, a statistical anomaly left unexplained.
