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In reply to the discussion: 10 Foot 'Giant' People Unearthed in Nevada's Lovelock Cave [View all]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovelock_Cave
wikipedia said it pretty much exactly like I was going to write. black fur and hair turns red with time (likewise red or brown turns blond), and 10 feet tall mummies are damn suspect.
According to Paiute oral history, the Si-Te-Cah or Sai'i are a legendary tribe of red-haired cannibalistic giants. Mummified remains of a man 6 feet 6 inches (1.98 m) tall were discovered by guano miners in Lovelock Cave in 1911.[4]: 168 Adrienne Mayor writes about the Si-Te-Cah in her book, Fossil Legends of the First Americans.[12] She suggests that the 'giant' interpretation of the skeletons from Lovelock Cave and other dry caves in Nevada was started by entrepreneurs setting up tourist displays and that the skeletons themselves were of normal size. About 100 miles (160 km) north of Lovelock there are plentiful fossils of mammoths and cave bears, and their large limb bones could easily be thought to be those of giants by an untrained observer. She also discusses the reddish hair, pointing out that hair pigment is not stable after death and that various factors such as temperature, soil, etc. can turn ancient very dark hair to a rusty-red color.
wikipedia said it pretty much exactly like I was going to write. black fur and hair turns red with time (likewise red or brown turns blond), and 10 feet tall mummies are damn suspect.
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10' red haired giants sailing the Pacific on rafts and then ending up in what is now S.W. America?
Botany
Mar 15
#3
I had family from W. Virginia who in the 1850s when it was still part of Virginia and they
Botany
Mar 15
#30
Vikings! The cannibalism charge is commonly leveled against enemies and could very well be false.
Martin68
Mar 15
#31
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AllaN01Bear
Mar 15
#20