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A Probable Case of Gigantism in an Egyptian Skeleton at Giza

Tuesday, December 3, 2013 0:24
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http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/krigbaum/4468/Mulhern_IJO_2005_Gigantism.pdf?origin=publication_detail

A Probable Case of Gigantism  in a
Fifth Dynasty Skeleton from the

Western Cemetery at Giza, Egypt

D. M. MULHERN*

 National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA

International Journal of Osteoarchaeology  
Int. J. Osteoarchaeol. 15: 261–275 (2005)

 
Published online 31 December 2004 in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI: 10.1002/oa.781

[In my opinion the following skeleton shows distinctive traits of the Borreby type which relate him to the archaic element of Northern Europe after the end of the Ice Age, the "Giant Warrior Strain" thought to be a very old combination of Neanderthal and Cromagnon traits and carried on distinctively by the Scandinavian Berserks most notably.

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