Ha! It's you fren! No wonder you've been down the same rabbit hole as I. I've been doing some digging into the elongated heads and I agree -- we've been fed a crock of lies on this one.
Apparently there is/was a group of people in Africa that exhibit the same trait. In this case, the "experts" chalk it up to the practice of head-binding. But that can't be true, as I've found photos of very young children who already have extreme head lengths that couldn't possibly be achieved by binding in one so young:
Even if you did bind a baby's head, it's still only going to grow so much, as the brain doesn't need all of this excess space. The head might deform, but it wouldn't continue growing to excessive lengths. If you look closely, it's only rows of beads around the heads -- ornamentation and decoration, not binding.
Yes, agreed, I call BS on the binding argument too, they fail to explain the different genetic types identified in finds, some of which rumoured to be truly massive proportions. I think the Smithsonian has 'lost' its fair share of finds. More rumours of skeletons being loaded into ships and sunk at sea.
But that's history, it's hard to deny living, breathing examples of these hybrids.
Some of the examples highlighted I think are modern nods to a history which once existed among the tribe- they remember their giants. Teeth sharpening and hair styling are good examples.
Add the African examples and the historical finds and 'nods' from modern tribes, I think it's likely we still have an interestingly diverse DNA (maybe not quite so diverse as it once was).
Ha! It's you fren! No wonder you've been down the same rabbit hole as I. I've been doing some digging into the elongated heads and I agree -- we've been fed a crock of lies on this one.
Apparently there is/was a group of people in Africa that exhibit the same trait. In this case, the "experts" chalk it up to the practice of head-binding. But that can't be true, as I've found photos of very young children who already have extreme head lengths that couldn't possibly be achieved by binding in one so young:
https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-n7KP-JLgt0Y/WPzqESut-PI/AAAAAAACpq0/P_qGls88PNQT6w_jwgfsuDDxmH5cfTgDgCLcB/s1600/mangbetu-people-12.jpg
https://hiddenincatours.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Bound-head.jpg
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/33/1a/c6/331ac699742f53a8d05678aa4434f6f2.jpg
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=elongated+heads%2C+africa&t=brave&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images
Even if you did bind a baby's head, it's still only going to grow so much, as the brain doesn't need all of this excess space. The head might deform, but it wouldn't continue growing to excessive lengths. If you look closely, it's only rows of beads around the heads -- ornamentation and decoration, not binding.
Hi fren!
Yes, agreed, I call BS on the binding argument too, they fail to explain the different genetic types identified in finds, some of which rumoured to be truly massive proportions. I think the Smithsonian has 'lost' its fair share of finds. More rumours of skeletons being loaded into ships and sunk at sea.
But that's history, it's hard to deny living, breathing examples of these hybrids.
Some of the examples highlighted I think are modern nods to a history which once existed among the tribe- they remember their giants. Teeth sharpening and hair styling are good examples.
http://www.human-resonance.org/interspeciation10.jpg
http://www.human-resonance.org/interspeciation33.jpg
http://www.human-resonance.org/interspeciation8.jpg (and face styling)
The skeletal stuff is not quite so easy to explain, especially when it's in various areas of the world.
http://www.human-resonance.org/interspeciation12.jpg (Solomon Islands)
Add the African examples and the historical finds and 'nods' from modern tribes, I think it's likely we still have an interestingly diverse DNA (maybe not quite so diverse as it once was).