Graveyard of “Giants†Found in China
Many of the 5,000 year-old skeletons measured 5’ 9†or longer, making the Neolithic humans exceptionally tall for that period
By Brigit Katz
July 14, 2017
Last year, archaeologists began excavating a late Neolithic settlement in Jiaojia, a village in China’s Shandong province. They have unearthed a trove of fascinating finds there—including the ruins of 104 houses, 205 graves, and 20 sacrificial pits—but a recent discovery has taken experts by surprise. As Mark Molloy reports for the Telegraph, a graveyard in Jiaojia was found to contain the bodies of several men who were 5′9″ or taller. That might not seem like anything to write home about, but the men would have been exceptionally tall for the period in which they lived.
The remains, which date to about 5,000 years ago, were buried in large tombs. One of the individuals found in the graveyard was even taller than his leggy peers, measuring approximately 6′2″ or 1.9 meters.
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