"Ten feet high". I think there might have been a bit of exaggeration in the hand me down stories about the giant white men fo the past. They probably were six foot tall nothern Europeans, that bit off more than they could chew.
I'm interested in the tools and cities they built, if they were real,, and the natives didn't exaggerate, then they were probably one of the most advanced civilisations in history.
There has been very little archeological digs below the date established for the Clovis culture. This has started to shift in recent years and some evidence has already been presented that far predates the current theory on human expansion into the Americas.
Interesting, do you have sources? I would like to find out more about ancient history, which strangely enough, is my favourite kind of history.
10 ft high might be an exaggeration but there is a growing body of research shedding light on genetic lineage within European and East Asian populations to long extinct hominids that predate (and disprove) the "Out of Africa" theory on human migration.
Separately, there's a theory picking up speed arguing that approximately 12-11 thousand years ago, A cataclysm caused a 2-mile high ice sheet to melt in a relatively short amount of time. The resulting flood caused the worlds oceans to quickly rise, washing away any trace of a once ancient & advanced civilization and causing a reset for all human society.
These accounts may be shreds of a once great and global civilization that is now nothing more than genetic remnants within present-day Europeans & Asians.
This is actually what I was thinking.
Then I saw .
Better nutirtion when young helps one fully develop. People from the "old country" in the early 20th century were much shorter, on average, than their kids and grandkids who ate better and/or took a multi-vitamin, which only helps someone if they malnourished. Otherwise, the vitamin pilll ingrediants just slide on through
Actually, that link didn't really make any sense, but:
The average adult male Plains Indian stood 172.6 centimeters tall -- about 5 feet 8 inches. The next tallest people in the world at that time were Australian men, who averaged 172 centimeters. European American men of the time averaged 171 centimeters tall, and men living in European countries were typically several centimeters shorter.
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