Giant Skull from Victoria Texas
Victoria Texas Giant.
The article from 1940:
Beach Giant Skull Unearthed By WPA Workers Near Victoria
Believed to Be Largest Ever Found in World; Normal Head Also Found
That Texas “had a giant in the beach” in the long ago appears probable from the large skull recently unearthed on a mound in Victoria County, believed to be the largest human skull ever found in the United Estates and probably in the world.
Twice the size of the skull of a normal man, the fragments were dug up by W. Duffen, archeologist who is excavating the mound in Victoria County under a WPA project sponsored by the University of Texas. In the same mound and at the same level, a normal sized skull was found. The peices taken from the mound were reconstructed in the WPA laboratory under the supervision of physical anthopologists.
A study is being made to determine whether the huge skull was that of a man belonging to a tribe of extraordinary large men, or whether the skull was that of an abnormal member of a tribe, a case of gigantism. Several large human bones have been unearthed at the site.
Marcus B. Goldstein, physical anthropologist, employed on the WPA project, formerly was an aide of Alen Horliken, curator of the National Museum of Physical Anthropology.
Finds made through excavations in Texas are begining to give weight to the theory that man lived in Texas 40,000 years ago, it is said.
Now confirmed by the university records!
A newspaper article from 1940 tells that a giant- sized skull was found in Texas. This skull is now confirmed from the University of Texas
that a large skull was found in 1939. . . .
The universities response: . . . .
“The particular specimen that you ask about, the large skull found at the Morhiss site in 1939, is noted in our paperwork as missing from the collection (and has been for some time, not appearing in inventories undertaken since the collection arrived at TARL).”
Physical anthropologist Marcus S. Goldstein says in his manuscript, “A couple of unusual crania were unearthed at Morhiss Mound in Victoria County. One of these, although much mended and its base quite warped, is nevertheless obviously a skull of extraordinary size, in many respects larger than any yet reported. The bones of this individual do not indicate excessive stature, but they are remarkably robust and plainly point to a very muscular man. The possibility of abnormality, perhaps an endocrine disturbance, arose immediately, but the largeness of the skull seems to be symmetrical, the hand bones do not show the ‘knobbing’ typical of acromegaly, and stature was evidently in no wise unusual. Moreover, other crania from the same site approximate the skull in question. Hence, it is my opinion that this exceptionally large skull was not the result of endocrine pathology.”
Sketch of one of the burials
Carolyn Spock
Head of Records
Texas Archeological Research Laboratory
The University of Texas at Austin
1 University Station, R7500
Austin TX 78712-0714
512.471.6006 voice 512.471.5973 fax
www.utexas.edu/research/tarl
www.texasbeyondhistory.net/
http://www.sydhav.no/giants/victoria_texas.htm
~Chris L Lesley/GAWMuseum
I found this report in August of 11th of 2009 while searching old newspapers online. I then emailed it to Steve Quayle and Terje Dahl among others.
Mr. Dahl contacted the University of Texas, and confirmed that they had the skull (and other giant skulls) in their collection, but that it had been “missing” for quite some time:
http://www.sydhav.no/giants/victoria_texas.htm
I value Mr. Dahl’s time and efforts he has put into these original investigation.
Rephaim23,
Any evidence that you come in direct contact with, If you be a scout for me. I will duplicate the evidence and make 2 replica’s one for me and one for you. They sometimes take a while to do if i am starting from scratch an exact mold takes the shortest amount of time. Skulls are really difficult from photos, next to impossible but bones and other evidences are quite easy.
There are 3 ways to make a duplication.
1) come in direct contact and make a mold of the object. (most preferred and best result)
2) 3 pictures from different angles (do-able on anything but a skull) The pictures have to be right! professional photography and even then the lighting for duplication may be different than the lighting a photographer might use. (rulers and measuring are a necessity) (A single picture is not worth the effort)
3) From scratch with a smaller bone (same kind) to work from. Giant femur bone photo, and a real femur bone for reference.
Like i said skulls are difficult and extremely time consuming. Sometimes people wont let people handle their evidences, so try to work out something for the people that have the artifacts to have a replica done, and find out what it would cost for a reproduction to be made.
~Chris L Lesley
Interestingly, Marcus S. Goldstein in his report says “The bones of this individual do not indicate excessive stature” but they are “remarkably robust.”
Yet from the sketch of the burials, it appears the skeletons were quite incomplete, I see no leg bones in the sketch. Was this simply a 5 1/2 foot tall Indian with a head almost the size of a watermelon? I mean, Jay Leno couldn’t compare to this guy!
Or, perhaps the term “remarkably robust” is their way of saying he was a Giant? And I wonder what height they would call, “unusual” ?
And why is this remarkable skull missing from the collection? These things raise more questions than they answer. wow.
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