Skull like Alien Found In Mexico

Skull with a shape resembling strange alien face discovered on the site of El Cemeterio, Mexico. Villagers Onavas, found the skull in 1999 in a tomb 1,000 years old when it was building irrigation canals.

This is a pre-Hispanic cemetery was first discovered in Mexico. El Cemeterio own site containing the remains of 25 human burials. 13 of them have what is called a deformation of the skull (skull defect), in which the elongated shape and tapered at the back of the head, and five teeth had been mutilated.
The researchers concluded, although it resembles an alien skull, but actually it is the practice of human skull deformation. Skull deformation children when they grow up is common in Central America.
Teeth grinding of teeth being mutilated like an odd shape. While the deformation of the skull they distort normal skull growth. One way to use a cloth to bind the wood boards on their heads.
"Deformation of the skull are used by different people with many different purposes. As ritual practices, tools to differentiate status within a group or to distinguish between social groups," says researcher Cristina García Moreno, an archaeologist at Arizona State University.
However, the reason why the people in El Cemeterio practice cranial deformation, exact purpose remains unknown. Several skeletons were found with earrings, nose rings, bracelets, pendants, and necklaces made of shells and snails from the Gulf of California.
One man was buried with a turtle shell on the chest. The reason why some people are buried many accessories while others do not, is still a mystery.
The experts until now continues to conduct research to determine the total size of the cemetery and hope to find more graves. So it can provide information on local funeral customs.
"With this new information, we hope to determine whether there is an interaction between the community and the Mesoamerican and how and when it happened," said García.
García and his colleagues completed a study of the skeletal remains in November and plan to submit their research to one of the journal American Antiquity Latin American Antiquity or journal.