Archaeologists carry out excavations around the Sonoran desert in Mexico, found the burial site of the ancient Mesoamerican culture. Special interest was deformed skull, writes the online edition of Discovery News. As reported by scientists log Past Horizons Archaeology, "buried in the burial ground of twenty-five people, thirteen of them observed artificial cranial deformation, and at five - damage to teeth.

These cultural practices were common among Indian States of Sinaloa and Nayarit, but in Sonora traces of them are still wasn't found... Archaeologist Cristina Garcia Moreno, head of the project, says: "in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica skull specially crippled to distinguish members of one social group by another, as well as for ritual purposes. Damage to teeth in cultures, such narymskoe, was a rite of passage into adulthood. Findings in Sonora confirm this - five skeletons with deformed teeth belong to people over the age of twelve years".

For science, the main value of this finding is evidence of presence (or influence) Mesoamerican cultures much farther North than previously thought. But for fans of UFOs it is quite another - perhaps, in this burial mound are aliens (or their descendants from communications with earth women). The Internet was a new conspiracy theory: again people hide the truth about UFOs!

Not for the first time in the history of the strange skull from Mexico was offered as evidence visiting Earth by aliens. Deformed skull of the child - the so-called skull Star child was found in 1930-ies in the state of Chihuahua. It was sold nobody ufologist, which for many years was demonterova it at different conferences in the paranormal phenomena, arguing that the skull belonged to the son of an alien and dugouts. Scientists, however, reacted to these conclusions skeptical: two series of researches of DNA (1999 and 2003) have shown that this is a common skull of a child suffering from hydrocephalus.

Charlatans always act according to one scheme: everything is difficult immediately to pick up the obvious scientific explanation, described as mystical, paranormal phenomenon. Strange objects in the sky become the "flying saucers", a dead black coyote is declared to be a vampire-the creature, and the skull mutilated or a sick child is the fruit of communication with aliens. Sci-Fi ideas are fine, but they should not overshadow the true scientific meaning of all these findings. Because the truth is often much stranger and more interesting than fiction.

Artem Kosmarski