As paleoanthropologist Alexander Belov says in an interview, there are references to some ancient giants in many tales, legends and even in sacred books.
- In the Bible you can read: "… At that time there were giants on earth, especially since the time when the sons of God began to enter the daughters of men, and they began to give birth …"
"Physical evidence" in the "case of prehistoric giant people" has appeared for a long time. There is a known case dating back to 1935, when an anthropologist from Holland, Ralph von Koenigswald, found himself in Hong Kong, went into one of the local pharmacies and saw in a window a tooth, in appearance absolutely identical to the third lower molar, which is in the mouth of every normal person.
But at the same time, the specimen seen by Konigswald was six times larger than a human tooth!.. Later, in southern China, other giant teeth were found in karst caves. By now, their total number has already reached several thousand. They even found several jaws, which are several times larger in size than those of modern people.
Why is it practically unknown to our contemporaries about the facts proving the existence of giant people in antiquity?
- The creator of the gigantoid theory of the origin of humans, F. Weidenreich, called the creature that owned such huge teeth a giant anthrope - a giant man. Subsequently, Weidenreich, in his book "Monkeys, Giants, People", published in Chicago after World War II, substantiated his gigantoid theory of the origin of man.
According to Weidenreich, it turned out that the ancestors of humans were giant primates living in Southeast Asia. However, this theory has become a tradition to be criticized by evolutionist anthropologists. The finds mentioned above were by no means advertised, on the contrary - they tried to remove these unique people out of sight, to the farthest corners of the museum depositories. Because the facts of the existence of giant human ancestors do not fit into the generally accepted classical theory of evolution, undermine its fundamental foundations.
Only occasionally, due to a coincidence of circumstances, information about the found remains of the giants was leaked to the media. At the same time, "opponents" - evolutionists tried to question the very significance of such finds: they say, it is very strange that researchers can only see skulls and teeth, but where are the other fragments of gigantic skeletons? Maybe everything is explained much more simply, and we are dealing with such a peculiar deformation of the usual proportions of hominids?
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That is, the head is huge, but the body is of normal size?
- Yes, such assumptions were made. But now it was possible to find, finally, information about the existence of a weighty (in the literal sense of the word) argument in defense of the version of the existence of giant people on Earth.
It turns out that back in the 1960s in South Africa, miners who worked in Northern Namibia at a mine in the Otavi Mountains, on Mount Aukos, found a unique fossil: a proximal fragment of a human thigh - a part of the upper bone of the right leg with a hip joint. Judging by its fragment, this entire femur is about 2-3 times the size of a modern human's thigh!
The same giant bone (piece of bone) in comparison with the same bone of an ordinary person
After its discovery, the rarity ended up in the repository of antiquities of the medical school at the WITS University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, which is located near Johannesburg. In this vault, the bone lay in complete oblivion for several decades, until, finally, one meticulous Western journalist, popularizer of the ancient history of mankind, Michael Tellinger, learned about this most valuable discovery of scientists.
He phoned the paleoanthropologist Professor Francis Thackeray, director of the Institute for Human Evolution and former president of the South African Paleontological Society, and persuaded him to show him a strange bone that had been gathering dust in an antiquity repository without any study. The professor was extremely surprised that the journalist knew about this bone, but he did not refuse the request.
The result is a very entertaining interview. You can see it on the Internet. Even for those who do not know English, it is interesting to watch the agitated Professor Thackeray displaying a valuable relic for 15 minutes. And the translation of the dialogue into Russian gives quite interesting information for thought.
When asked by a journalist about the age of the bone fragment, the professor replies that the bone is mineralized and was found in sedimentary rocks, whose age is determined by various geological methods at 10 million years. But the professor immediately makes a reservation that the remains of a person of a modern physical type (homo sapiens) could not have been in such ancient geological layers. Such is the paradox, according to Thackeray, who holds an evolutionary point of view: the human femur could not be in layers of sedimentary rock dating back several million years, but here it is in front of us, this bone.
The bone fragment itself really looks like fossilized, subjected to mineralization (in scientific terms - fossilized). This is really visible on the screen, the more the professor sees it. However, scientists have already found out that mineralization of bone organic matter does not always occur.
This requires certain conditions. So that the bone is buried in sedimentary rocks (clay, sand, etc.) without oxygen. So that this bone is covered from above with the same clay or sand before the moment when it collapses under the influence of air, soil acids, wind, water erosion. If these conditions are met, water with mineral salts dissolved in it begins to penetrate through microcracks into this "properly buried" bone. (You also need a certain pressure and temperature.
Rock carvings of giant people from the same place from South Africa
If everything matches, then the bone has a chance to turn into a fossil. But this process is very slow. It can last for millions of years! On average, depending on the conditions, it takes 2 million years for the bone to become fossilized. Remains less than this age are called subfossils, or semi-fossils, by paleontologists and paleoanthropologists. Fully fossilized organic remains are found only in sedimentary rocks older than this age.
Thus, the chances of surviving the remains of ancient people are minimal. But still, paleontologists rarely find something. The case in question is just one of those unique. That is, it is a rare success that scientists finally got a visible, real confirmation that people of gigantic stature lived on the earth several million years ago. Paleoanthropologist Francis Thackeray estimates that the height of the person whose thigh is in the university vault was approximately 12 feet, or 3.5 meters!
What will be next? Having such a compelling material argument, will scientists begin to actively "unwind" the version of the existence of giant people?
- Alas! The demonstration of this "super-fragment" did not cause any noise in the scientific community. Apparently, now this sensation was released on the brakes in the same way as in the 1960s, when the bone was discovered. The main reason is the paradox mentioned by Professor Thackeray: there simply cannot be a human bone in such ancient deposits, the theory of evolution prohibits this! This means that the “troublemaker” - a petrified piece of the thigh of an ancient giant man - must be returned to a state of complete oblivion.
The bone was once again removed to a shelf in the granaries of WITS University School of Medicine. The presence of such an object, "inconvenient" from the point of view of classical evolutionary science, raises the fear that a fragment of a giant hip may suddenly disappear somewhere. And the professor, what good, will say that he was joking.
But what kind of jokes are there? "Thackeray's Souvenir" too clearly shows that the version of the existence of giant people on Earth in the distant past cannot be dismissed.
Alexander Dobrovolsky