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Hrdlička blamed the reports of giant skeletons on the "will to believe" coupled with "amateur anthropologists" who were unfamiliar with human anatomy. In 2014 an internet story began circulating which claimed that the Smithsonian Institution had custody of giant skeletons but they destroyed "thousands of giant skeletons" in the early 20th century.
In 1869 W.A. Seaver wrote: "In times more modern (1613), some masons digging near the ruins of a castle in Dauphiné, in a field which by tradition had long been called 'The Giant's Field,' at a depth of 18 feet discovered a brick tomb 30 feet long, 12 feet wide, and 8 feet high, on which was a gray stone with the words 'Theutobochus Rex' cut thereon.
Initially believed to be a giant human, it was identified as a giant non-human ape soon after unearthing. [186] Unknown Teutobochus (Theutobochus) France: 760 cm 25 ft A left part of a huge skeleton was discovered in a sand quarry in Dauphiné in 1613. [187] These bones were thought to belong to an ancient giant king 24–25 ft (7.3–7.6 m) tall.
An excavation project led archaeologists to discover an "extremely rare" tomb that was largely destroyed thousands of years ago.
A forensic pathologist found the skeleton was a 25 to 30 year old Indian male who probably died about 100 yeas ago. Students hold funeral for lab skeleton that turned out to be real human remains ...
Per Cohen, the proto-scientific study of giants appears in several phases of human history: Herodotus reported that the remains of Orestes were found in Tegea; Pliny described a giant's skeleton found in Crete after an earthquake, and seemed to refer to evolution as the process by which giants become human-size over time; and Saint Augustine ...
A heap of skeletons from more than a dozen people were found, and archaeologists and anthropologists are working to gather more information, including their identities. "It is a little creepy ...
The Patagones or Patagonian giants were a race of giant humans rumoured to be living in Patagonia and described in early European accounts. They were said to have exceeded at least double normal human height, with some accounts giving heights of 13 to 15 feet (4 to 4.5 m) [1] or more. Tales of these people would maintain a hold upon European ...