I have to put on the tin hat I use when I listen to Ron Paul talk foreign policy for this one.
Looks like the kind of cranial deformity created by different “primitive” (politically incorrect) cultures the world over from the Huns to Meso-Americans.
Who says they are fiction?
Forbidden archaeology.
http://www.mcremo.com/
http://www.forbiddenarcheology.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oGqPc6poS4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UhPMzsrZbw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeBfMDJUxSA&feature=related
Klinton has a “thing” for Peruvian mummies. I wonder how hot he thinks this one is?
Birth defect?
12 foot tall skeletons and spears discovered in Utah cave in 1938; archaeologist led there by Indians who said the Spanish also saw them in the cave. Skeletons taken by truck to Berkeley, CA, now hidden from view for 70 years in the basement of the Univ. of California Berkeley Anthopology Building.
cf Oakland Trib article 1980`s.
20 inches tall? Almost 2 years old?
A quick browse of the internet shows that the typical 2 year old is over 30 inches long.
Why is a 20 inch almost 2 year old a big deal?
Some genetics went wrong. It happens.
Credibility generally comes down to what we are calling giants. Ten feet, maybe even 12 feet or so doesn’t stretch my skepticism out of shape. It’s when people start talking about giants who were twenty or thirty feet tall that causes me to turn the channel or close the book. ...There have been a great many skulls shaped like that found in South America and elsewhere.
Shaquille O’Neal “Shaq” stands 7 ft 1 in (2.16 m) tall and weighs about 325 pounds (147 kg). If I was an explorer and saw him...I would say he was a giant of a man.
Robert Wadlow - He reached 8’ 11.1” (272 cm) in height and 490 pounds (222.26 kg) in weight. Thats big!
Bao Xishun, born in Inner Mongolia, measured at 2.36 meters (7 ft 8.95 in) tall
Leonid Stadnyk is said to be 2.54 m (8 ft 4 in) and weigh 200 kg
And then there is the poor kid Brenden Adams - was 7’ 4” at age 12. He was 4 1/2 feet tall as a 5 year old! http://slanchreport.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/75-middle-schooler-is-a-big-target-on-the-football-field/
So could there have been a bunch of people whose had a genetic tendancy for active pitutary glands or whatever and be called giants! Yes, no doubt about it.
Excellent book on the subject, “Noah Primeval” by Godawa.
Fiction based on the limited truth/facts of the Bible.
Would make an great script movie.
Even with overly tall people, the head is not that far out of proportion to the size of the body at a young age.
What about the body measurements?
According to some accounts, early settlers when building new villages sometimes accidentally dug up grave sites of “indians” who were extremely tall - 7-8 feet.
When he heard about these finds, James Smithson who was married to and Indian, began gathering these finds up and taking them back to D.C. There, he stored them in the basement of the museum which is now called the Smithsonian ... where thay remain unseen and uncatalogued.
Smithson had a reason for this action which I do not remember, but I believe had something to do with politics and Indian lore.
Very tall indians today are not that uncommon, I was told by an Indian I knew.
When these giant babies were born to normal human women, it killed them at birth.