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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.

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TOPICS: Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: adriennemayor; amazon; cuenca; ecuador; freieuniversitat; germany; godsgravesglyphs; lojaprovince; mummies; mummy; nephilim; nuttery; ohsomysteriouso; peru; russelldement; unitedkingdom
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Reads like something out of the Weekly World News
1 posted on 11/28/2015 7:30:28 AM PST by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

Probably Aliens.


2 posted on 11/28/2015 7:34:55 AM PST by Paladin2 (my non-desktop devices are no longer allowed to try to fix speling and punctuation, nor my gran-mah.)
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To: BenLurkin
Search For The Lost Giants

Bill & Jim Vieira will be happy about this discovery. Interesting show.

3 posted on 11/28/2015 7:35:27 AM PST by Robert DeLong (u)
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To: BenLurkin

Either nephilim or medieval basketball players...or both


4 posted on 11/28/2015 7:35:46 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: Paladin2
"recovered the rib cage and skull of a female which had been exposed by flooding."

OK, Amazons...

5 posted on 11/28/2015 7:36:32 AM PST by Paladin2 (my non-desktop devices are no longer allowed to try to fix speling and punctuation, nor my gran-mah.)
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To: BenLurkin

If they find a red, white, and blue basketball, then a team of time-traveling Harlem Globetrotters broke their time machine and couldn’t get back.


6 posted on 11/28/2015 7:36:42 AM PST by Anitius Severinus Boethius (www.wilsonharpbooks.com - Sign up for my new release e-mail and get my first novel for free)
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To: BenLurkin

Descendants of the Nephilim?


7 posted on 11/28/2015 7:37:00 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: BenLurkin
Did a search for the name of the archaeologist and nothing but this subject came up in a few links. Must be an off the grid archaeologist.

Odd.

8 posted on 11/28/2015 7:37:53 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

I searched and found that there is a Freie Universität in Germany — but couldn’t find any actual news stories about giant skeletons headed there.


9 posted on 11/28/2015 7:41:42 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Wilt Chamberlin’s mother who said “Kids don’t look up to there parents anymore “


10 posted on 11/28/2015 7:44:30 AM PST by al baby (Hi Mom)
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To: BenLurkin

victims of acromegaly who were seen as special and given elaborate funerals.


11 posted on 11/28/2015 7:45:11 AM PST by muir_redwoods (Freedom isn't free, liberty isn't liberal and you'll never find anything Right on the Left)
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To: DJ MacWoW

Descendants of the Nephilim?


My first thought :)


12 posted on 11/28/2015 7:55:05 AM PST by Maudeen (Sinner Saved by Grace)
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To: BenLurkin

The Incans had a basketball team? Who knew?


13 posted on 11/28/2015 7:55:52 AM PST by BigEdLB (If something happens because of the Iran Agreement all of DC will have blood on their hands)
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To: Maudeen

It certainly sounds like it. Goliath probably was one too.


14 posted on 11/28/2015 7:58:59 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: muir_redwoods

Dement told Cuenca Highlife: “The skeletons show no signs of diseases such as the hormonal growth problems that are common in most cases of gigantism. In all the skeletons, the joints seemed healthy and lung cavity appeared large. One of the skeletons that we have dated was of a female who was about 60 when she died, much older than typical cases of gigantism.”


15 posted on 11/28/2015 8:01:19 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: BenLurkin

Coincides with the invention of the rack.


16 posted on 11/28/2015 8:02:03 AM PST by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: BenLurkin

Well, they weren’t called Amazons for nothing!


17 posted on 11/28/2015 8:04:35 AM PST by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: I like to destroy the Turks (Moslims))
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To: BenLurkin
Skeletons of giants have been discovered for ages. Many have been discovered here in America as well. All have been wisked away to "museums" never to be seen again.

Free if you have kindle unlimited:


18 posted on 11/28/2015 8:06:50 AM PST by amorphous
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To: SunkenCiv

Genesis 6:4
There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them . . .

Gods, Graves, Glyphs, and Giants pingworthy?


19 posted on 11/28/2015 8:10:18 AM PST by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: BenLurkin

Magellan, the first explorer to find and pass through the strait at the tip of S. America named for him, reportedly encountered natives of enormous height when he and his crew landed during the passage. They may have over estimated the height as “twice that of a normal man”, i.e. 11 or 12 feet, and the stories of the Patagonians were eventually considered fairy tales. But the existence of giants among some Indian populations isn’t a new story and, as with most myths, dig enough and eventually a factual basis will be found.


20 posted on 11/28/2015 8:17:19 AM PST by katana (Just my opinion)
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