Giant skeletons reported at multiple Adena culture mounds by academic researchersgiants

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Key facts

• Dr. Don Drago, head of the section of man at the Carnegie, found a 7-foot-2-inch skeleton at the Creep Mound in 1959 while it was being destroyed for oil and gas exploration
• Webb and Snow found a 7-foot skeleton with robust features at the Dover Mound in a University of Kentucky-sponsored dig in 1952
• Professor Norris reported a skeleton 7.5 feet tall with 19 inches across the shoulders at the Canow Mound
• Norris's report was published in the Smithsonian's ethnology report and the New York Times
• Burial context included specific positioning with legs crossed facing east and burial artifacts including spokes of a whale
• The Adena people practiced cranial elongation among elite members
• Massive jawbones attributed to the Adena people were large enough to fit over the face of a modern finder

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