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Tuesday, March 10, 2015
2500 Year Old Nordic Skulls Discovered at Mounds State Park at Anderson Indiana
Ancient European Skull Types Found at Mounds State Park Henge Complex
Northern European Europid para-group of Cairo-Magnids and Nordids, all mostly tall-statured and depigmented, and cohabitant in relative intermixture. Not primarily a phylogenetic entity.
The appearance of long headed skulls with an occipital bun in the Ohio burial mounds suggests that the Adena had a Nordic origin.
While common among many of humankinds ancestors, primarily robust relatives rather than gracile, the protrusion is relatively rare in modern Homo sapiens. A greater proportion of early modern Europeans had them, but prominent occipital buns even among Europeans are now relatively infrequent.
From Physical Anthropoogy Termshttp://www.theapricity.com/snpa/gloss2.htm
Adena skull from the Ohio Valley burial mound with an occipital bun.
Lima Daily News, (Lima Ohio) July 27, 1892
The appearance of long headed skulls with an occipital bun in the Ohio burial mounds suggests that the Adena had a Nordic origin.
While common among many of humankinds ancestors, primarily robust relatives rather than gracile, the protrusion is relatively rare in modern Homo sapiens. A greater proportion of early modern Europeans had them, but prominent occipital buns even among Europeans are now relatively infrequent.
From Physical Anthropoogy Termshttp://www.theapricity.com/snpa/gloss2.htm
NORDID (Nordic)
A group of strongly depigmented Northern European dolicho-mesocephalic leptomorphs, whose similarities are partially the result of shared origins, part of convergent evolution. There are three generally recognized Nordid types: the classic Hallstatt Nordid, the northwestern European Keltic Nordid, and the eastern European East-Nordid. For some brief speculation on the topic of Nordid origins, please read the introduction to The Nordish Gallery.
Lima Daily News, (Lima Ohio) July 27, 1892
May Buy The Mounds
Congress To Purchase Prehistoric Works
(Anderson, Indiana., Letter)
Dora Biddle of Anderson a collector of antiques has a skull, and another is on exhibition here, which has been severed just above the ears, in such a manner as to remove the crown of the head and lay the brain bare. These skulls were found with others under conditions, which would indicate that they were those of the mound builders. They are very large, showmarked intellectually, and unlike skulls of the present day, or ofthe Indians, have a fifth skull bone in the back of the head.
On the left is a skull from an Adena mound in Ohio. From "The Adena", Webb and Snow 1988. On the left is a Corded Ware or Beaker People skull from northern Europe, both of which have an occipital bun .
Evidence of the Amorite Giants in the Ohio Valley
Ancient Iroquois Giant Skeletons Discovered in New York
The Archaeologist, Volume 2, 1894, Auburn, N.Y., Feb. 6th, 1894.
Much discussion has been provoked of late in the Central New York papers over the finding at Branchport, Yates Co., N.Y., on the banks of Keuka lake, of the alleged skeleton of the mother of Red Jacket, the famous Indian orator of the Six Nations.
This discussion has brought to light many interesting facts regarding the finding of huge skeletons in the Seneca territory. The skeleton above mentioned, was extraordinary in size and that coupled with the fact that the mother of Red Jacket was a woman of huge proportions, is the only theory on which these allegations are based. The fact that the skeleton was gigantic in size is the only indication of identity and is a very meager point on which to base so important a conclusion. In the language of Irving W, Coates, of Shortsville, N. Y., a well known Antiquarian:
"So far as my study and observation in regard to local Indian history extends, the finding of such an Indian skeleton, either male or female, as the one exhumed at Branchport, is no strange or unusual occurrence. On lot 98 in the town of Manchester, Ontario county, N.Y., several years ago, skeletons were dug up nearly seven feet in height, and on the old turnpike road leading from Geneva to Canandaigua, skeletons of very large dimensions have been exhumed. But two or three years since, the skeleton of a gigantic Seneca warrior was exhumed in the old burial ground of Onnaghee in the town of Hopewell, Ontario county, that was, according to the measurements taken by observers on the spot, nearly seven feet in height and proportioned accordingly, and the weapons which were discovered with the remains proved them to have been those of a person of great physical strength.
These weapons, which are immense implements of primitive warfare, are at present in the possession of Mr. Case of Hopewell, N. Y., a local antiquarian." Near Geneva, N.Y., a number of years ago, while some workmen were grading and excavating, large quantities of Indian bones and skulls were taken out, many of which were in an excellent state of preservation. Most of those appeared to have belonged to adults of a large-sized tribe and in one of two instances, were of extraordinary size. At Dresden, N.Y., in Yates county, twenty years ago, workmen employed in a brickyard unearthed hundreds of skeletons, together with their implements of warfare, some of the skeletons being unusually large and one noticeably so. A local physicians, on viewing it, pronounced it to be that of a man. From what information we can gather, the Senecas in particular, in point of physical form, strength and beauty were the flower of the nations that went to make up the great Iroquois confederacy.
Much discussion has been provoked of late in the Central New York papers over the finding at Branchport, Yates Co., N.Y., on the banks of Keuka lake, of the alleged skeleton of the mother of Red Jacket, the famous Indian orator of the Six Nations.
This discussion has brought to light many interesting facts regarding the finding of huge skeletons in the Seneca territory. The skeleton above mentioned, was extraordinary in size and that coupled with the fact that the mother of Red Jacket was a woman of huge proportions, is the only theory on which these allegations are based. The fact that the skeleton was gigantic in size is the only indication of identity and is a very meager point on which to base so important a conclusion. In the language of Irving W, Coates, of Shortsville, N. Y., a well known Antiquarian:
"So far as my study and observation in regard to local Indian history extends, the finding of such an Indian skeleton, either male or female, as the one exhumed at Branchport, is no strange or unusual occurrence. On lot 98 in the town of Manchester, Ontario county, N.Y., several years ago, skeletons were dug up nearly seven feet in height, and on the old turnpike road leading from Geneva to Canandaigua, skeletons of very large dimensions have been exhumed. But two or three years since, the skeleton of a gigantic Seneca warrior was exhumed in the old burial ground of Onnaghee in the town of Hopewell, Ontario county, that was, according to the measurements taken by observers on the spot, nearly seven feet in height and proportioned accordingly, and the weapons which were discovered with the remains proved them to have been those of a person of great physical strength.
These weapons, which are immense implements of primitive warfare, are at present in the possession of Mr. Case of Hopewell, N. Y., a local antiquarian." Near Geneva, N.Y., a number of years ago, while some workmen were grading and excavating, large quantities of Indian bones and skulls were taken out, many of which were in an excellent state of preservation. Most of those appeared to have belonged to adults of a large-sized tribe and in one of two instances, were of extraordinary size. At Dresden, N.Y., in Yates county, twenty years ago, workmen employed in a brickyard unearthed hundreds of skeletons, together with their implements of warfare, some of the skeletons being unusually large and one noticeably so. A local physicians, on viewing it, pronounced it to be that of a man. From what information we can gather, the Senecas in particular, in point of physical form, strength and beauty were the flower of the nations that went to make up the great Iroquois confederacy.
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