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Lovelock Cave (NV-Ch-18) is a North American archaeological site previously known as Sunset Guano Cave, Horseshoe Cave, and Loud Site 18. The cave is about 150 feet (46 m) long and 35 feet (11 m) wide. [ 1 ]
In some versions of the legend they were giants. In 1911, a large amount of artifacts and mummified human remains were discovered under three to six feet of guano by guano miners in Lovelock Cave. [3] Although the cave had been mined since 1911, miners did not notify authorities until 1912.
The cave does preserve evidence for ancient fires and the cave's deep bat guano smells comparable to burnt human remains. Red-haired human mummies were also found in the cave. These were promoted by some as being giants, but at least some versions of the story of the Si-Teh-Cahs portray them as normal sized. The human remains that have been ...
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Giant skeletons reported in the United States until the early twentieth century were a combination of hoaxes, scams, fabrications, and the misidentifications of extinct megafauna. Many were reported to have been found in Native American burial mounds. Examples from 7 ft (2.1 m) to 20 ft (6.1 m) tall were reported in many parts of the United States.
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I'm trying to find what sources actually call them giants. This says "Lovelock Cave (Sai'itoo or "Sai's hole ): The story about the enemy people who were killed by le Northern Paiutes in Lovelock Cave is well known to [modern Northern Paiutes (see Appendix l) (which says "” Loud and Harrington (1929:166) questioned Hopkins name identification ...
Iowa's Office of the State Archaeologist said in a social media post that archaeologists found the well-preserved skull on the side of a creek bed in Wayne County Wednesday at an excavation site ...