“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.”
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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.
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
Dead basketball players?
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.
Relatives of “Alice the Goon” from old Popeye cartoons..... BTTT !
“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.”
Soooo... the research has been subjected to the standard journalism practices of the day, huh?
No doubt they had some great basketball teams that could easily dunk without jumping.
Zulu hunting party took a wrong turn? :-)