Alien-Like Skulls Cemetery Found In Mexico: 1,000-Year-Old Burial Ground Has Mayan Connection? [PHOTO]

Researchers have found alien shaped skulls in a 1,000-year-old cemetery in Mexico in a small village of Onavas.

The tradition of deforming the skulls of children was common in Central America in that era and seemed to have travel to north. The small village is the home of a first pre-Hispanic cemetery found in 1999. When discovered, the cemetery had 25 human remains, 13 had deformed heads and five had mutilated teeth. The deformation were elongate and pointy at the back were used by different societies in the world in rituals.

Cristina García Moreno, an archaeologist at Arizona State University stated, "Cranial deformation has been used by different societies in the world as a ritual practice, or for distinction of status within a group or to distinguish between social groups," she said. "The reason why these individuals at El Cementerio deformed their skulls is still unknown."

After posting the pictures, commenters actually believed that the remains were aliens, "The most common comment I've read from people that see the pictures of cranial deformation has been that they think that those people were 'aliens,'" García added. "I could say that some say that as a joke, but the interesting thing is that some do think so. Obviously we are talking about human beings, not of aliens."

There were 17 children between the ages of 5 months and 16 years of age that may have died from excessive force during the cranial deformation. There were no signs of diseases that may have caused the children's unfortunate deaths.

The mystery of the cemetery grows as scientists realized that only one female was buried among the 25 bones and many buried with ornaments such as, earrings, nose rings, bracelets, pendants and necklaces made from seashells and snails from the Gulf of California. Researchers search for answers to understand the culture the bones had lived prior to their death.