Large Sioux Indian Skeleton Uncovered in Burial Mound in Southern Illinois
Twelfth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894 On the spur of the ridge upon which the Welch mounds of Brown county, hereafter noticed, are situated and about midway between them and Chambersburg, in Pike county, is a group of circular mounds, possibly the work of another people than those who built the effigies. They are mainly on the farm of Mr. W. A. Hume, who assisted in opening eight of them, of which but two are specifically noticed here...
The other, situated on the point of a commanding bluff, was also conical in form, 50 feet in diameter and 8 feet high. The outer layer consisted of sandy soil, 2 feet thick, filled with slightly decayed skeletons, probably Indians of intrusive burials. The earth of the main portion of this mound was very fine yellowish sand which shoveled like ashes and was everywhere, to the depth of from 2 to 4 feet, as full of human skeletons as could well be stowed away in it, even to two and three tiers. Among these were a number of bones not together as skeletons, but mingled in confusion and probably from scaffolds or other localities. Excepting one, which was rather more than seven feet long, these skeletons appeared to be of medium size and many of them much decayed.
14 Gigantic Cro-Magnon Skeletons Unearthed in France
Geraldton Guardian and Express, April 28, 1930 Fourteen immense slate coffins dating back to prehistoric times have been unearthed here by men working on a new road, says the correspondent of the London "Daily Mail," in Grenable (Southern France). The coffins were found at a depth of 12 feet and when opened with great care the skeletons of 14 men of gigantic stature were revealed. In each case, the heads were of great size with huge jawbones.
Giant Neanderthal Skull Unearthed on New Jersey Coast
The History of Cape May New Jersey, 1897 A skull was exhumed which must have belonged to one of great age, as the sutures were entirely obliterated and the tables firmly cemented together. From the superciliary ridges, which were well developed, the frontal bone receded almost on a direct line to the place of the occipital and parietal sutures, leaving no forehead and has the appearance of having been done by artificial means, as practiced at present on the Columbia among the Flat Heads. A jaw-bone of huge dimensions was likewise found, which was coveted by the observer; but the superstitions of the owner of the soil believing it was sacrilegious and that he would be visited by the just indignation of Heaven if he suffered any of the teeth to be removed, prevailed on us to return again to its mother earth."
