Creepy: Ancient Conehead Skulls Found in Mexico
December 28, 2012
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An archaeological discovery of 13 "conehead"-shaped skulls in Mexico has people recalling the famed Saturday Night Live sketch. The bones, which are about 1,000 years old, dating from 945 A.D. to 1308 A.D., were discovered accidentally during a dig for an irrigation system in the northwest state of Sonora in Mexico. While it's not unheard of for archaeological sites to be unearthed during modern excavations, the misshapen skulls discovered on the site are fairly uncommon, especially as far north as Sonora. "This was an Hispanic cemetery with 25 skulls, and 13 of them have deformed heads," Cristina Garcia Moreno, who worked on the project with Arizona State University, told ABC News. "We don't know why this population specifically deformed their heads."*
Some ancient skulls shaped like cones were unearthed in Mexico, and they look...not very human. What explanation is there for these oddly shaped skulls? Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian break it down.
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