There Were Giants in Those Days: article from West Virginia

I picked this article up in Facebook, where someone had shared it, and told that this is near their house. It looks like the article had been found using search words. Some of the newspaper article databases are actually searchable, using some sort of OCR. Here's the article's text:

There Were Giants in Those Days

Wheeling, W. Va., Feb. 26. -- while digging a grave on Trace Fork, Lincoln county, a few days ago, the bones of a human being of gigantic stature and proportions were exhumed. The skeleton is in a good state of preservation and the outlines of the frame sufficiently defined to determine that the stature of the person must have been nine or ten feet. The skull and other bones also indicate prodigious size. No one now living has any knowledge of the grave or its occupant, and all indications point to its belonging to some prehistoric race of giants contemporary with mastadons, fossil remains of which have been found in many parts of the country.

Arizona Rebublican. (Phoenix, Ariz.), 27 Feb. 1892. Chronicling Amierca: Historic Am
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84020558/1892-02-27/ed-1/seq-2/

Giants' Skeletons Found in Mexico

Giants' Skeletons Found

Cave in Mexico Gives Up the Bones of an Ancient Race

Special to the New York Times

Boston, May 3. -- Charles C. Clapp, who has recently returned from Mexico, where he has been in charge of Thomas W. Lawson's mining interestes, has called the attention of Prof. Agassiz to a remarkable discovery made by him.

He found in Mexico a cave containing some 200 skeletons of men each above eight feet in height. The cave was evidently the burial place of a race of giants who antedated the Aztecs. Mr. Clapp arranged the bones of one of these skeletons and found the total length to be 8 feet 11 inches. The femur reached up to his thigh, and the molars were big enough to crack a cocoanut. The head measured eighteen inches from front to back.

The Red Queen of Palenque

The red queen of Palenque is an interesting figure from Mexico. She also had an elongated skull, much like the skulls found in Paracas, Peru. She was said to have been 1.54 m tall, so she was not by any means a giant.

She was a highly respected person, buried in an important part of a temple. She was buried with many items of jewelry and a sort of headband of green stones on her head.

Here is a picture of her elongated skull. Source

Here are History Channel's reconstructions based on her skull. If she is related to the Paracas individuals, she may very well have had red hair, as opposed to black hair. The black hair is an assumption, based on the color of the hair of the vast majority of people in that region. Source

Here is the History Channel documentary about the Red Queen of Palenque in YouTube. (This is a multi part series. Open it in YouTube to see all the episodes)

Here is an article by the History Channel about the making of the documentary.

The Dolichocephalous Skulls of Malta

Image source: http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/esp_maltaskulls_1.htm

Malta has its own history of a megalithic period, accompanied by the cone-headed people, who seem to turn up all around the world where megalithic structures are found.

 The Hypogeum of Hal Salflienti, in Malta. Source: http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/esp_malta02.htm

This blog article mentions a megalithic temple, where men of unusual cranial capacity were buried. This place is also known as "The Hypogeum of Hal Salflienti". This blog article has several good pictures of the hypogeum.

Looking at the picture of these skulls, you can also see the missing sagittal suture, very much like the Paracas conehead skulls of Peru.

The modern population of Malta are largely related to the Arabs and speak a Semitic language related to Arabic. However, in the past, there have obviously been other cultures there. The article says that in Malta, there was a culture there that was worshipping "the mother goddess" from 4100-2500 BC. The date 2500 BC is a key date, according to the article, which is when that culture suddenly ended.

The authors of the article associate the cone-headed race of Malta with the cone-headed race of Egypt. They go on to say that they were an aristocratic class, and only mingled with their own kind. If you look up images of Nefertiti or Tutankhamun, every depiction of them shows definite skull elongation, and increased relative cranial capacity.

Underground city with large skeleton in Missouri

This one comes from Missouri, from around 1895. Here follows the text:

A strange story comes up from Missouri. At Moberly in that state some workmen at the bottom of a coal shaft 360 feet below the surface came upon a buried city arched in by a hard and thick stratum of lava. The streets are regularly laid out and enclosed by walls of stone, which is cut and dressed in a fairly good although rude style of masonry. A hall 30x100 feet was discovered wherein were stone benches and tools of all descriptions for mechanical service. Further search disclosed statues and images made of composition closely resembling bronze but lacking luster. Of course curiosity was aroused to ascertain what kind of people dwelt in this strange city buried for centuries beneath the earth's surface. With a good deal of difficulty in removing debris the workmen finally succeeded in reaching a spot where a stone fountain was found in a wide court or street, and from it a stream of perfectly pure water was flowing, which upon being tested was found to be strongly impregnated with lime. Lying beside the fountain were portions of the skeleton of a human being  and from measurement of the bones it was concluded that when alive the figure was three times the size of an ordinary man and possessed of wonderful muscular power and quickness. The implements found in the city embrace bronze and flint knives, stone and granite hammers, metallic saws of rude workmanship but proved metal, and others of similar character. They are not so highly polished nor so accurately made as those now finished by our best mechanics, but they show skill and an evidence of an advanced civilization.

The searching party spent twelve hours in the depths, and only gave up explorations because of the oil in their lamps being low. These facts are vouched for by the recorder of the city of Moberly and the city marshal, who were of the exploring party. The story, if true, is singular, and if not true is a yarn that would have done credit to Missouri in the palmiest days of her romancing.

Here is some more information about this find.

Off an a Polynesian tangent this time

I came across this in a Wikipedia discussion:

From; Migrations, Myth and Magic from the Gilbert Islands by Rosemary Grimble
Taranga (Polynesian) lived on the sea, and when he finally decided to settle on Samoa he was surprised to find Auriaria (tall, red haired people) already there and they remained the dominant people. From Auriaria and Taranga came the Te-uribaba lineage who had beliefs against the terrible practices (human sacrifice) of the Auriaria, but did not gain power. Taburimai was a later lineage. Koura was another breakaway group but they embraced the ways of the Auriaria . Tabu-ariki, Riiki, Nei Tevenei and Nei Tituaabine are all more recent lineages that grew out of this family tree. All these people descended from the Auriaria were known as; “The Red men, with red hair and pale skin”. The first great kings of Samoa was ‘Batuku, the skull'. He was tall with a very long skull. He was of the Auriaria lineage. The food of Batuku was the heads of the people killed by his children. There came a time of boatbuilding and sailing. The children of Batuku joined with the many people from other islands – the male lineages came from Au-te-venevene, Au-te-rarangaki, Taburitokia, Kotunga, Kaburoro and Nan-Te-Buaka people. The female lineages came from Nei Bubuia, Nei Te-wa-matang, Nei Kaekea, Nei Te-wi, Nei Kiaiai and Nei Kameenono people. These people together began making boats that could sail great distances in search for food for ‘Batuku the skull', their ancestor figure. This new society was led by Kaburoro and they built a great boat. To launch it they slew many men for the rollers.

There is the recurring them here about cone-headed, red-haired giants.

Read the rest here.

Then there is a great YouTube video "New Zealand: Skeletons in the Cupboard". It is not all about giants, but they are mentioned near the end. The whole video is fascinating to watch.

 
 

A bit about the Paracas conehead race

Some background info about the Paracas skulls

There have been a number of human cultures, where head binding of infants has been a practiced as a tradition. When this is done, the infant's head is bound between two boards, so that it takes on a cone shape as it grows. Could this tradtion date back to a time when humans had interactions with this other race? One can only speculate. The Paracas elongated (conehead) skulls were not the product of cranial deformation - they were naturally that way.

The Paracas skulls were also quite a bit heavier and bigger than normal human skulls, and had quite a bit more brain capacity. The Paracas skulls also lack a sagittal suture.

Image from Wikipedia's article about the sagittal suture

Seen here above  is a normal human skull. The sagittal suture traverses down the center of the top of the head, holding the parietal plates together.

Image from the blog of L.A. Marzulli.

Seen here is the top of one of the Paracas elongated skulls. As you can see, there is no sagittal suture, unlike in a normal human skull.


Elongated skulls in other parts of the world

Ancient Egypt also has pictures and sculptures of notable people who have elongated skulls. Some of the headdresses one could imagine might have been for someone with an elongated skull. Whether or not this was from cranial deformation (head binding) or if they were related to this same race in Paracas is unknown. King Tutankhamun supposedly had an elongated skull.

Shown here is a Paracas elongated skull, with some reddish brown hair still attached to it, next to a normal human skull. Image from L.A. Marzulli's blog.