The Ancient giants found in America

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River, why are you posting Ripley's Believe It Or Not crap in the human science forum? How about beginning by defining the scope of human science and then taking the mumbo jumbo south of here.

 

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Is it really " crap " ?

The archaeology , the physical archaeology , is being ingnored , why is the question ?

Does the evidence really bother you or threaten you that much ?

The physical evidence is what it is , deal with it

 

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Sorry, I don't see any physical evidence.

 

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IT'S A MADHOUSE!!!!

 

Doesn't have to be , nor is it

Not to me anyway

 

Isn't that in and of itself suspicious? Why hide the evidence unless there's a conspiracy?

 

Indeed

 

Then take this to conspiracy theories.

 

Perfect solution!

 

Remember that river will believe any nonsense he stumbles across.

 

No figure what to say

 

Most all reports of giants were hoaxes , with the proof packed up and "lost" in some museum , usually the Smithsonian. Until I see a credible report with verified evidence , I have to dismiss this subject as fantasy. On the other hand , think how modern man might be considered giants compared to various peoples of small stature thru out history. Was Goliath really a giant or perhaps just a very large man for his day? Just like the fish that got away perhaps we are dealing with human nature and the tendency to exaggerate for an audience.

 

Cesspool.

 

From Wikipedia.

A paleo-tribe could easily be afflicted by this condition and live well as long as there were no other human competitors around. But there are enough DISadvantages to this condition that it is likely that they would not last long in constant contact with non-afflicted humans.

 

Seconded.

 

That the evidence can't be seen does not mean that it's hidden. Maybe it's not there.

 

The Karankawa tribes along the Texas coastline impressed the then shorter European explorers / "immigrants" with their height and muscular frames. There were surely other indigenous peoples that might have (relatively speaking) been described as giants. Even if there was any grain of truth in the New York Times article below, Charles Clapp would have simply exaggerated or overestimated the height of the Mexican remains (probably six to seven feet tall in actuality, like the Karankawa).

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9F06E7DB143EE233A25757C0A9639C946997D6CF

 

There were many news paper articles on the finds , mostly by farmers

http://www.sydhav.no/giants/newspapers.htm

Also

https://suite101.com/a/a-giant-mystery-18-strange-skeletons-found-in-wisconsin-a407191

 

More news paper articles

Giant Human Remains*

- From records and sources all over the world (by John Williams)

Giant Skeletons:

In his book, The Natural and Aboriginal History of Tennessee, author John
Haywood describes "very large" bones in stone graves found in Williamson
County, Tennessee, in 1821. In White County, Tennessee, an "ancient
fortification" contained skeletons of gigantic stature averaging at least 7
feet in length.


Giant skeletons were found in the mid-1800s near Rutland and Rodman, New
York. J.N. DeHart, M.D. found vertebrae "larger than those of the present
type" in Wisconsin mounds in 1876. W.H.R. Lykins uncovered skull bones "of
great size and thickness" in mounds of Kansas City area in 1877.


George W. Hill, M.D., dug out a skeleton "of unusual size" in a mound of
Ashland County, Ohio. In 1879, a nine-foot, eight-inch skeleton was
excavated from a mound near Brewersville, Indiana (Indianapolis News, Nov 10,
1975).


A six foot, six inch skeleton was found in a Utah mound. This was at least a
foot taller than the average Indian height in the area, and these natives-
what few there were of them -were not mound builders.


"A skeleton which is reported to have been of enormous dimensions" was found
in a clay coffin, with a sandstone slab containing hieroglyphics, during
mound explorations by a Dr Everhart near Zanesville, Ohio. (American
Antiquarian, v3, 1880, pg61).


Ten skeletons "of both sexes and of gigantic size" were taken from a mound
at Warren, Minnesota, 1883. (St. Paul Pioneer Press, May 23, 1883)
A skeleton 7 feet 6 inches long was found in a massive stone structure that
was likened to a temple chamber within a mound in Kanawha County, West
Virginia, in 1884. (American Antiquarian, v6, 1884 133f. Cyrus Thomas,
Report on Mound Explorations of the Bureau of Ethnology, 12th Annual Report,
Smithsonian Bureau of Ethnology, 1890-91).


A large mound near Gasterville, Pennsylvania, contained a vault in which was
found a skeleton measuring 7 feet 2 inches. Inscriptions were carved on the
vault. (American Antiquarian, v7, 1885, 52f).


In 1885, miners discovered the mummified remains of woman measuring 6 feet 8
inches tall holding an infant. The mummies were found in a cave behind a
wall of rock in the Yosemite Valley.


In Minnesota, 1888, were discovered remains of seven skeletons 7 to 8 feet
tall. (St. Paul Pioneer Press, June 29, 1888).


A mound near Toledo, Ohio, held 20 skeletons, seated and facing east with
jaws and teeth "twice as large as those of present day people," and besides
each was a large bowl with "curiously wrought hieroglyphic figures."
(Chicago Record, Oct. 24, 1895; cited by Ron G. Dobbins, NEARA Journal, v13,
fall 1978).


The skeleton of a huge man was uncovered at the Beckley farm, Lake Koronis,
Minnesota; while at Moose Island and Pine City, bones of other giants came
to light. (St. Paul Globe, Aug. 12, 1896).


In 1911, several red-haired mummies ranging from 6 and a half feet to 8 feet
tall were discovered in a cave in Lovelock, Nevada.
In February and June of 1931, large skeletons were found in the Humboldt
lake bed near Lovelock, Nevada. The first of these two skeletons found
measured 8 1/2 feet tall and appeared to have been wrapped in a gum-covered
fabric similiar to the Egyptian manner. The second skeleton was almost 10
feet long. (Review - Miner, June 19, 1931).


A 7 foot 7 inch skeleton was reported to have been found on the Friedman
ranch, near Lovelock, Nevada, in 1939.(Review - Miner, Sept. 29, 1939)
In 1965, a skeleton measuring 8 feet 9 inches was found buried under a rock
ledge along the Holly Creek in east-central Kentucky.