Deformed 'alien' skulls offer clues about life during the Roman Empire's collapse

Live Science ^ | April 30, 2020 | Mindy Weisberger

[albie]

Crap. My middle name is Alan.

[SunkenCiv]

And you're right, one survivng ancient sample may not give the full picture of that vanished people, but since it is characteristic of that time and place, it's probably not all that far off. :^) By and large, my Ancestry DNA report verely verified what the paperwork shows.

[SunkenCiv]

Probably a good many of them died by 30 or 35 anyway. :^)

[SunkenCiv]

Maybe width=500 next time? :^)

[Gamecock]

[Trillian]

That is too funny.

[BEJ]

I have a theory. There was a residue of memory passed down from when people first originated from aliens, aliens who had sex with neanderthals. This memory, probably passed through their genes, was thought to be “sacred” and to show their respect to their alien ancestors they created these pointy skulls. Some also created flat skulls of their neanderthal ancestors too.

Can this be proven through Hegelian logic? Perhaps not. But there was an Hegelian professor who died with an elongated head in Berlin in 1833 at the height of European Civilization (as claimed by Hegel’s understanding of Absolute Spirit). He claimed that the elongated Norman Cathedrals in Europe reached up to the stars and God. Could God be aliens? Interesting question for our age.

[itsahoot]

“Is such a thing even possible?”

Stole this the morning from another Freeper.

[Jacob Kell]

What did you get on the female side?

[pierrem15]

According to Wikipedia, the Alan people may be a source for the name :-)

[pierrem15]

Alan (Ossetian), possibly originally from the Balkans. One had 20% Asian ancestry.

[Jacob Kell]

Any Roman on either side?

[smvoice]

Moops

[pierrem15]

A partial match from a late 4th century grave found in Rome-- but she may have moved there from Central Europe.

That's it. Kind of argues for the near total replacement of the Gallo-Roman population in southern Normandy with Franks and others.

[SunkenCiv]

Ason Jalexander was involved.

[SunkenCiv]

whoops, verely = merely

[SunkenCiv]

Getting a whole population to do something stupid, odd, or counterintuitive to or with their bodies is about establishing control over them. That's much more likely as explanations go.

[SunkenCiv]

The Alans

[pierrem15]

Badda-bing!

[Flaming Conservative]

No.