Amazon giants may be for real; Research team discovers large skeletons near Ecuador-Peru border

[Judi Lynn]

Aug 16, 2024 |
By Liam Higgins

A British anthropologist says he has finally found the Amazon giants he has been looking for.



A Shuar settlement, southeast of Cuenca, near the site of Russell Dement’s excavation.


Although Russell Dement says the tribe of giants has almost certainly died out, he and a team of German researchers have excavated two settlements in the Ecuador and Peru Amazon region and found a half dozen human skeletons that measure between seven and eight feet in height.

Dement said the settlements dated to the early 1400s in one case and to the mid-1500s in the second. “We are very early in our research and I am only able to provide a general overview of what we have found,” he said. “I don’t want to make claims based on speculation since our work is ongoing. Because of the size of the skeletons, this has both anthropological and medical implications.”

Two of the skeletons have been sent to Freie Universität in Germany for analysis, including one that measures eight feet, while the others remain on site in Ecuador.

Dement says he has heard about the race of large Amazonians for more than 25 years as he has studied the Shuar and Achuar Amazon indigenous communities. “The elders in the communities tell a story about very tall, pale-skinned people who used to live nearby,” he says. “They described them as peaceful, gentle people who were always welcomed in their villages.”

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Images of Shuar indigenous people:

[Arne]

1. Wonder if the giants had red hair.

[Think. Again.]

2. Some groups of people from the past were very short too.

[yonder]

3. Fascinating.

[2naSalit]

4. That's interesting.

I have heard of tall people on other continents too. I heard about the "Amazons" when I was a kid.

[eShirl]

5. was hoping they had photos of the giant skeletons

interesting if true

[duncang]

6. I wonder how if the dig will find earlier bodies?

I’d love to see how far back they go in the area. You can end up with giants from medical problems. So it could be rooted in pituitary gland problems. I can’t wait until they come back with the dna results. To me it would be hard to believe they have European ancestry since they would have to travel across a lot of South America to get to Peru. But I guess anything is possible. That still doesn’t explain the extreme height.

Whichever way it turns out I will be looking to see the dna results.