[Indrid Cold]

I'm surprised nobody's mentioned the 9-ft. tall human(oid)s dressed in battle armor that were dug up in the mounds in Ohio. Probably just an oversight.

[Some hope remaining.]

Huh?

[Some hope remaining.]

Oh, ok. http://www.stevequayle.com/Giants/N.Am/Giants.N.Am2.html#Anchor-Ohio-5677

[blam]

"I'm surprised nobody's mentioned the 9-ft. tall human(oid)s dressed in battle armor that were dug up in the mounds in Ohio. Probably just an oversight."

Show me some evidence...I'll mention it! There are reports in the old Ohio county records of farmers reporting having dug up 'tall' human skeletons...enlighten me. (BTW, Burrows Cave is a fraud!)

[genefromjersey]

I dunno 'bout that one !

I suspect it may be a tall tale (Yeah,I know:That wuz a pun,whut ah done )about a skeleton in armor-supposedly unearthed in Fall River,Mass. during early colonial times.
There was a newspaper article-which may have been a hoax-about a skeleton wearing copper link armor,including a helmet,such as the early Greeks might have worn.There were also some arrowheads,made of bronze or copper,which had openings cast into the bases,so that the point could be tied to a wooden shaft.

The skeleton,of course, was re-buried in an unknown location...which made it impossible to verify whether the article was true,or a very early internet spoof.

[blam]

The Adena People

"The Adena folk were unusually tall and powerfully built; women over six feet tall and men approaching heights of seven feet have been discovered. It would seem that a band of strikingly different people of great presence and majesty had forced their way into the Ohio Valley from somewhere about 1000 B.C. - Robert Silverberg "

[breakem]

Thos tall ones were the Original Celtics.