Creepy: Ancient Conehead Skulls Found in Mexico

Maybe The Coneheads was a documentary?

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.

*Read more from Melissa Locker/ Time: http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/12/25/a...

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[joeincorrect87]

it looks like homer simpsons skull



[SupaDr00g]

Anecdotal stories do not amount to evidence, also being highly educated or qualified does not provide immunity from delusion or wacky beliefs, the human mind is highly susceptible to suggestion,hallucination,false memories,trick of the light etc thousands of clinical trials have proven this.

[W. Feline]

Foot binding isn't Japanese, it's Chinese

[Kuda T.V]

putting to block between your skull and eventually giving you to have a cone shaped head? that sounds like what you tell a kid so they would shut up and stop asking questions ...and haw about your brain? also coned shaped...cmon..

[euromafiavw]

I keep telling everyone the cone heads are real.

[ElGUIRRILLERO1]

wooohooo dope !

[eric abernethy]

No one ever talks about the brain size! if the skull grows bigger couldnt the brain aswell to fill it?? Maybe the 'ritual' was actually an attempt to create a Superior intellect. Mybe their Gods were aliens with similar shaped heads and that gave them the idea, how else could u come up with that shit ??

anyone like to talk about this?

[NihilistSlacker]

I'm an agnostic. I'm not going to assume anything about 'the metaphysical' and whether such things as gods or spirits exist.

That said, I'm also not going to believe in anything unless there is substantial evidence.

[cwross1976]

God is not anthropomorphic, we are God shaped. evolution is still mere theory and it will remain so as the scientific method can only be used to prove actual fact not religious beliefs. by the way it's a faith based belief system because there is no proof that God does not exist yet you believe it...

[cwross1976]

except for you though...right?