has been a popular subject in recent years. The discovery of gigantic skeletons in several caves around the U.S. Measurements “indicated the remains of a man nearly seven feet high.” 11
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10 In 1833, a “skeleton laid at full length within a rude cist”, was discovered at Port Seaton, Scotland. 9 At the Woodyates barrow group in Wiltshire, Richard Colt Hoare unearthed a “large skeleton” and another of a “tall and stout man”. In 1918, at Surrey, England, the “giant” skeleton of a man of “unusual stature” was found in a “perfect state of preservation”. 8īones of the Giant of Castelnau in La Nature, 1890. Significantly, these remains were studied by several of Lapouge’s contemporaries, who agreed that these were indeed the bones of a giant human, as reported in The August, 1890 issue of Popular Science. “I think it unnecessary to note that these bones are undeniably human, despite their enormous size…The subject would have been a likely size of 3m, 50.” Lapauge’s conclusions were officially published in La Nature, Vol 18 (888) along with an image of the bones with a normal size humerous. In 1890, while excavating the Neolithic strata of a burial mound, Georges de Lapouge discovered the humerus, tibia, and femoral shaft of an individual he estimated to be between 11 and 12 feet tall. Giant skeletonsīesides these similarities, Neolithic and Bronze Age burials in Europe have yielded very large skeletons similar to those often found in Adena Mounds.Ī truly gigantic specimen has been documented from Castelnau-le-Lez, Southern France. “One usual normal form of these crania is brachycephalic, and that decidedly so…and it is too obvious to need remark, that the mode of nursing would heighten this brachycephalism.” 6īrachycephalic Beaker skull from the Natural History Review, 1862. “…there is also generally an occipital flattening which may have been caused by the use of an unyielding cradle board.” 4 The Beaker People practiced the same type of occipital cranial deformation as Adena: William Boyd Dawkins described the beakers’ brachycephalic crania as having “strongly marked” ridges, “high and broad” cheek bones, and jaws “presenting prognathism”, 4 while Burkett described “large teeth” in the “powerful” lower jaw. “They form one of the rare groups in the world with a cranial length of 184mm and an index of over 80.” 3 The faces are characteristically narrow, the orbits medium to high, the nasal skeleton high and aquiline the occiput frequently flat.” “…the browridges are often heavy, the general ruggedness frequently greater. “Where Bell Beaker burials are found in central Europe, the skeletons are almost always of the same tall brachycephalic type…” The characteristics of the Beaker People are virtually identical to Adena. Webb and Snow noted that Adena skulls were “the highest known in the world” 2 with an average index of 89.5, while the deformed skulls reached as high as 100a2. The Adena practiced artificial deformation of the occipital region, enhancing their large congenital features. Snow felt that these traits, along with the “great width of the bony chin” distinguished Adena from their predecessors and contemporaries. The characteristic bulge of the upper and lower jaws (alveolar prognathism) is moderate in projection…Usually the cheek bones are not only of large size in themselves but they have a forward and lateral prominence…” 2 The root of the nose is of average proportions and continues on to a prominent convex bridge that is one of the prominent features of the face. “The forehead is typically a prominent one, bordered below by fairly sizeable brow ridges. “Approximately 89% (31 of 35) of the adult males, 92 % (22 of 24) of the adult females are brachycephalic.” 1 William S Webb and Charles Snow devoted considerable space to analysis of the large, high-vaulted crania of the Adena people of North America:
In short, I see in it a colonization of America, by means of an immigration from Europe.” 16 Unique cranial features of Adena people shared with European Beaker people “I can find no other explanation other than a gradual migration of a portion of the human family from one part of the world to another-from one hemisphere to the other. Adolph Zestermann (Leipzig) wrote in 1851: After studying American Mounds and Earthworks, Dr C.A. European scholars have noted evidence of ancient colonization of North America.
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