Video Infoblog: Complete Examination Of The Ancient Paracas People Of Peru Including DNA Results And Blood Tests
Transcript 0:01 now it's taken us 5 years uh since we began this process to actually get the 0:06 results it took almost three years to get or two and a half to get permission 0:12 from the ministry of culture of Peru who we worked with very closely especially 0:18 with archaeologist Ruben sto in order to have the DNA testing approved by the 0:23 government a total of 18 skulls was tested and results came back from 12 the 0:31 DNA was so badly degraded after 2,000 to 3,000 years that of the 58 samples of 18 0:39 skulls we got results from 12 of the skulls from two different Laboratories 0:44 one in Canada the Lakehead University and another one at UCLA in California a 0:52 third lab was also utilized at Santa Cruz uh University of California but 0:58 they stated that of the I think 18 samples they were given no results were 1:04 forthcoming we we're not sure if that's true or whether the results were so bizarre that they decided to hide them 1:12 so in what I can basically ...