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Lovelock
skull and parts of skulls
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Lovelock
giant skull confirmed by museum!
In 1911 several giant skeletons and ancient artefacts were
supposedly fund in a cave in Lovelock in Nevada, USA. Almost
everything was later lost in a fire but a skull is supposed
to be found in the Humbolt Museum, Winnemucca. I send a request
to the museum
- and they could confirm that they indeed do have a Lovelock-skull
there!
When
mining for guano in a cave in Lovelock, a small town about
80 miles north-east of Reno, the miners reportedly found mummies
preserved in the dry bat-droppings. The mummies were large,
from 6 and a half feet to more that 8 feet (2 to more than
2,5 meters), and they had red hair. They were reportedly lying
in a layer of burnt material about four feet under the surface
and there were also lots of broken arrows around the mummies.
Before archaeologists could survey the findings most of it
was gone or damaged - and a later fire where the artefacts
were stored did no good either.
Legends
The Puite Indians of the area have legends about giants and
how they killed them. The race of giants, the "Si-Te-Cah"
, should have been white, red-haired, very tall cannibals,
and the Indians started war against them when they entered
their land. A coalition of tribes managed to trap the last
remaining giants in a cave and while shooting arrows at them
they started a large fire at the mouth of the cave. They kept
the fire going and shot everybody who tried to get out - until
the giants were annihilated.
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Stan Nielsen
outside cave
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Dental
model
One person that can tell, and show us, how large the skulls
are is Stan Nielsen, he went to find the cave and the skull
in the museum:
"Prior to a subsequent trip to
the area, I borrowed a full-sized plaster dental model of
the lower teeth of a normal modern adult from a friend, who
was also my dentist. I took the plaster model with me when
I next visited the area, in the hopes that
I would be able to compare it with the jaw
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Dental
model and jaw
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from
one of the "giants." As
I had hoped,
the curator at the Winnemucca museum graciously allowed me
to compare the plaster model with the jaw from the skull of
one of the "giants" in the museum's collection.
She placed the jaw down on her desk. I was allowed to place
my plaster adult jaw next to jaw from the skull for purposes
of comparison. The plaster model was much smaller than the
jaw from the skull. In fact, the teeth of the jaw from the
skull were almost twice the size of those of my plaster model.
There were other factors, too, that distinguished it from
today's humans."
Other
skeletons
Other giant skeletons have reportedly been found in the area,
in 1931 and 1936 - and even a skeleton measuring 8 feet 9
inches was supposedly found in 1965, buried under a rock ledge
along the Holly Creek in east-central Kentucky. All that is
left today, as far as we know, are the skull and the scull
parts in the tiny Humbolt Museum (and I am afraid they suddenly
will be gone one day). The sensational artefacts are, believe
it or not, kept in the backroom, but reports are telling that
the staff will gladly show them to you if you inquire about
them!
From: Humboldt County Museum
[mailto:museum@winnemucca.net]
Sent: 1. May 2008 03:20
To: terje@sydhav.no
Regarding: Lovelock Skulls
Dear Terry:
We do, in fact, have one of the Lovelock skulls. It
was obtained years ago as part of a local collection.
Sorry about the delay!
Barbara Powell Humboldt Musuem |
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