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Giant 7-Foot to 8-Foot Skeletons Uncovered in Ecuador Sent for Scientific Testing
theepochtimes.com ^ | Liz Leafloor

Posted on 11/28/2015 7:30:28 AM PST by BenLurkin

Strikingly tall skeletons uncovered in the Ecuador and Peru Amazon region are undergoing examination in Germany, according to a research team headed by British anthropologist Russell Dement. Will these remains prove that a race of tall people existed hundreds of years ago deep in the Amazonian rainforest?

Since 2013, the team has reported finding half a dozen human skeletons dating to the early 1400s and the mid-1500s that measure between 7 feet and 8 feet (213 to 243 centimeters) in height.

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In late 2013, Dement received word that a skeleton had been uncovered by a Shuar local, approximately 70 miles (112 kilometers) from Cuenca, in Loja Province, Ecuador. Dement traveled to the site and recovered the rib cage and skull of a female which had been exposed by flooding. The bones were thought to date to 600 years ago. The rest of the skeleton was located and, once assembled, reportedly measured 7 feet and 4 inches (223.5 centimeters) in height.

This prompted the formation of a research team including four researchers from Freie Universität in Germany, and the assistance of Shuar locals. Funding was provided by the university for excavation and investigation.

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The burials were elaborate. Bodies were wrapped in leaves and buried in thick clay. This sealed the skeletons and protected against water intrusion, leaving the remains in fairly good condition.

Since the announcement of this discovery, several reports have vastly exaggerated the dimensions of the finds, with 7 feet reported as 7 meters (making them 23 feet tall). The bones have also been erroneously connected with hoax photos, as well as a reconstruction of an "Ecuador giant," which was a fake skeleton for a now-closed theme park in Switzerland.

(Excerpt) Read more at theepochtimes.com ...


TOPICS: Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: adriennemayor; amazon; cuenca; ecuador; freieuniversitat; germany; godsgravesglyphs; lojaprovince; mummies; mummy; nephilim; nuttery; ohsomysteriouso; peru; russelldement; unitedkingdom
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To: BenLurkin
There's many stories of the Spanish Conquistadors running into tribes of giants during their expeditions through the Americas.

"...When we attempted to cross the large lake, we came under heavy attack from many giant Indians concealed behind trees. Some of our men were wounded in this conflict for which the good armor they wore did not avail. The Indians we had so far seen are all archers. They go naked, are large of body, and appear at a distance like giants. They are of admirable proportions, very spare and of great activity and strength. The bows they use are as thick as the arm, of eleven or twelve palms in length, which they discharge at two hundred paces with so great precision that they miss nothing."

21 posted on 11/28/2015 8:18:05 AM PST by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: BenLurkin

I did too (search for Freie Universität). I tried to find some into on their Archaeology Dept. and Equador. No luck.


22 posted on 11/28/2015 8:19:51 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: Paladin2

The first Lakers.


23 posted on 11/28/2015 8:23:17 AM PST by ilovesarah2012
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To: Caipirabob

One of Cortez’s scouts wrote that he saw bones of giants; he described seeing a thigh bone that was as long as he was tall.


24 posted on 11/28/2015 8:24:14 AM PST by odawg
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To: Paladin2

25 posted on 11/28/2015 8:30:49 AM PST by Charles Henrickson
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Hey Ma, They found uncle Joe.


26 posted on 11/28/2015 8:34:33 AM PST by No You Cant
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To: BenLurkin
Reads like something out of the Weekly World News

They've stayed locked in on Batboy for decades now:


27 posted on 11/28/2015 8:41:42 AM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: BenLurkin
Climate Change, Global Warming, Global Cooling,

GLOBAL SHRINKING of mankind!

WE'VE GOT TO SPEND BILLIONS TO PREVENT MAMKIND FROM SHRINKING IN STATURE! Since on average, Chinese are shorter than US, WE MUST GIVE THEM BILLIONS TO STOP THE SHRINKING!

</sarc>

28 posted on 11/28/2015 8:48:41 AM PST by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was blind but now I see...)
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To: BenLurkin

From Buffalo Bill’s autobiography:

” While we were in the sandhills, scouting the Niobrara country, the Pawnee Indians brought into camp some very large bones, one of which the surgeon of the expedition pronounced to be the thigh bone of a human being. The Indians said the bones were those of a race of people who long ago had lived in that country. They said these people were three times the size of a man of the present day, that they were so swift and strong that they could run by the side of a buffalo, and, taking the animal in one arm, could tear off a leg and eat it as they ran.

These giants, said the Indians, denied the existence of a Great Spirit. When they heard the thunder or saw the lightning, they laughed and declared that they were greater than either. This so displeased the Great Spirit that he caused a deluge. The water rose higher and higher till it drove these proud giants from the low grounds to the hills and thence to the mountains. At last even the mountaintops were submerged and the mammoth men were drowned.

After the flood subsided, the Great Spirit came to the conclusion that he had made men too large and powerful. He therefore corrected his mistake by creating a race of the size and strength of the men of the present day. This is the reason, the Indians told us, that the man of modern times is small and not like the giants of old. The story has been handed down among the Pawnees for generations, but what is its origin no man can say. “

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12740/12740-h/12740-h.htm


29 posted on 11/28/2015 8:55:11 AM PST by eartrumpet
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To: Paladin2
Probably Aliens.

Correct! Occam's razor.

30 posted on 11/28/2015 9:10:59 AM PST by Cowboy Bob (With Trump & Cruz, America can't lose!)
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To: BenLurkin

very interesting but when i search for Russell Dement not one mainstream site carries anything. Appropriate name if its a hoax, right? Dement aka demented.


31 posted on 11/28/2015 9:11:39 AM PST by wiggen (#JeSuisCharlie)
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To: amorphous

Right. Seem to get lost in the news somehow.

Yet the evolutionists Lucy hoax still found its way into the Google logo this week. I guess the executives at Google are thankful for evolution even if their religious relics are a fraud.

Maybe for Christmas their logo will be the Nutcracker man, distant cousin to Lucy and Piltdown.


32 posted on 11/28/2015 10:01:48 AM PST by unlearner (RIP America, 7/4/1776 - 6/26/2015, "Only God can judge us now." - Claus Von Stauffenberg / Valkyrie)
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To: BenLurkin

Paging Steve Quayle


33 posted on 11/28/2015 10:25:20 AM PST by tang-soo (Prophecy of the Seventy Weeks - Read Daniel Chapter 9)
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To: BenLurkin

“Results of the reported Freie University research are to be published a year from now according to Dement, who is said to be examining DNA samples from the Shuar communities near the excavation site to see if they connect with the skeletal remains from the ancient settlement.”

Read more: http://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/giant-7-8-foot-skeletons-uncovered-ecuador-sent-scientific-testing-004119#ixzz3soPBtrYQ
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We’ll see what journal accepts it for publication and peer review. Note: The article quoted was From an Ancient Origions (10/08/2015) article.


34 posted on 11/28/2015 10:27:30 AM PST by JimSEA
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To: BenLurkin

I seem to remember a black and white scifi movie about these folks, but it was only women. Ok movie buffs, help me out. LOL


35 posted on 11/28/2015 10:47:26 AM PST by biff
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To: BenLurkin

Dead basketball players?


36 posted on 11/28/2015 10:55:48 AM PST by TBP (Nous sommes tout Francais.)
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To: BenLurkin

According to some US Indians, very tall people on that order were common at one time, and that Smith of the Smithsonian came and robbed all the burial grounds which had these very tall people in them.


37 posted on 11/28/2015 12:01:39 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: eartrumpet

Or in other words, gravity increased a slight amount making large animals impossible.


38 posted on 11/28/2015 12:04:20 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: eartrumpet

Or in other words, gravity increased a slight amount making large animals impossible.


39 posted on 11/28/2015 12:04:22 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: eartrumpet

Reports from the early Texas settlers of the Karankawa Indians that lived along the coast stated that they were much taller than average. Usually six and a half to seven foot tall.


40 posted on 11/28/2015 2:02:16 PM PST by tarawa
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