tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-629061224332673795.post6312301078859707884..comments2023-07-15T05:32:20.508-07:00Comments on Frontiers of Zoology: Giant SkullsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-629061224332673795.post-10185466404303505022012-10-24T13:47:58.251-07:002012-10-24T13:47:58.251-07:00Even if the Sayre skull was falsely accused of bea...Even if the Sayre skull was falsely accused of bearing horns (Which has NOT been demonstrated, only alleged)other skulls can have and do have them: living human beings are known to have horns, it is a known medical condition. Say otherwise and you will only be proving your ability to gainsay a demonstrated point: go and look it up before you do say so. Human beings arre known to develop all sorts of wierd bony or horny growths in the skin-sometimes they just get attached to the skull. The fact of these growths is what I was interested in because it is one of those things giants of legend are said to have fairly frequently. I have mentioned the Elephant man as one unfortunate individual who fell victim to such bony growths in the skin and subsequently became much deformed: it is the notion of "Deformity" which the myths of the giants is getting across. Scott, I will thank you to speak in a more civil tone in the future. as to the alternative explanations of why the horns were supposed to be there when they were not-they don't signify: as I saifd it is a known medical disorderand the fact I was trying to establish was that it IS a known medical disorder. You see it mentioned sometimes in Ripley's Believe it or Not-it seems wierd but it still <i>HAPPENS</i>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-629061224332673795.post-32648233854135343642012-10-24T10:14:18.366-07:002012-10-24T10:14:18.366-07:00Except that's not one of the "horned"...Except that's not one of the "horned" skulls, I don't believe, as I think they're lost, or at least that's how the story usually goes. I'm not sure what it is, I've seen that picture as well. Louise Welles Murray cleared up about the "horned" skulls in "Aboriginal Sites in and Near 'Teaoga,' Now Athens, Pennsylvania" (American Anthropologist 23:2, Apr-June 1921). Miss Murray was a resident of the property where the excavations took place (it was in the family's back garden). She does reproduce a picture of one of the skeletons found in the yard, which is now at the Tioga Point Museum, I'm not certain if that's where these skulls ended up or not.<br /><br />According to her, the story of the horned skulls was a misinterpretation by a passerby of an exclamation made by a worker commenting on the crown worn by the skeleton of what may have been a chief. Presumably, though, even if the horned bit was a myth, the stature was not.Andrew D. Gablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13270538788314012863noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-629061224332673795.post-53441471094689947612012-10-24T09:44:07.654-07:002012-10-24T09:44:07.654-07:00Geez, the Sayre horned skull story was debunked in...Geez, the Sayre horned skull story was debunked in 1916. Why are you still clinging to it?Scott Hamiltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01239391361895323698noreply@blogger.com