Neanderthal Hybrids Described in Iowa Burial Mounds

Neanderthal Hybrids Described in Iowa Burial Mounds

Beetle browed "archaic" type skulls have been described across North America.

History of Iowa From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century 1902

    What sort of people were the first inhabitants of Iowa is a question that must ever be of interest. It is generally believed by archaeologists that remains of two distinct prehistoric races have been found in the Valley of the Mississippi.

   The first human skulls discovered resemble those of the gorilla, having the thick ridges over the eyes and an almost total absence of forehead, indicating a low degree of intelligence. Similar skulls have been found throughout the different countries of Europe, indicating that the first inhabitants of the earth known to ethnologists were low-browed, brute-like, small-bodied beings, who were but a grade above the lower animals. Skulls of this type have been found in Illinios, Wisconsin, as well as in Johnson, Floyd, Chickasaw and    Dubuque counties of Iowa.  The first inhabitants of Iowa and the Mississippi Valley of which we have any evidence are called the “Mound Builders.” Stone and copper implements found indicate that they had made progress in the scale of intelligence. Whether they cultivated the soil, erected comfortable dwellings and built towns is not known; but that they made cloth is proven by samples found in mounds, strangely preserved through the innumerable ages that have elapsed. The numbers, color, habits, customs and forms of government of these people, as well as the manner in which their mounds were constructed, the purpose for which these enduring earthworks of various forms

Petrified Human Giant Unearthed in British Columbia, Canada

Petrified Human Giant Unearthed in British Columbia, Canada

New York Times

August 17, 1885

A Petrified Giant

   Victoria, British Columbia, Aug 5- The body of a petrified giant has been found by two farmers who were sinking a well 10 miles from town.  It appearances closely resembles that of a human being.  The head had the appearance of having been scalped.  The material is as hard as flint and the arms and legs are broken off.  The veins and ribs are plainly traced.  A party has gone out for the legs and arms and hands which lie in a hole.  The man whom alive must have been 12 feet in height.

9 Foot Human Skeleton With a Double Row of Teeth Found in Bowling Green, Kentucky

Large burial mounds that contained giant skeletons was a common find in Kentucky.

The Daily Leger, Noblesville, Indiana - Aug., 16 1902
A GIANT
Unearthed at Bowling Green, Kentucky 
Measures Nine Feet in Length
Double Rows of Teeth
     The skeleton of a prehistoric giant was exhumed near Bowling Green yesterday by a colored laborer, who terrified at his find, ran, breathless, to the nearest farmhouse and notified the neighborhood.  The skeleton when placed together as is was in life, measured nearly nine feet in length.  The skull measures almost 12 inches in diameter, and there are two distinct rows of teeth in the massive jaw.  The bones are well preserved with the exception of the pelvic bones, which are considerably decayed.  The bones were thought to be the remains of some giant Indian, but the shape of the head is not, the shape of the skull peculiar to Indians, and the age in which the man lived is still in doubt.
   The bones of the toes and fingers are remarkably well preserved and appear to have something resembling claws attached.  The arms of the giant measure many inches more than those of a man today, and were the lower limbs not so long the skeleton would have bear a close resemblance to a huge gorilla.  There is no wound visible on the bones, and that the man died of natural death is quite possible.