Historic Oddity Headline: November 16, 1901 - Skeleton of a Giant Found in a Cave With Specimens of Rude Art

The Minneapolis Journal

November 16, 1901

“PREHISTORIC.”

Skeleton of a Giant Found in a Cave With Specimens of Rude Art.

[New York Sun Special Service.]

Middletown, N.Y., Nov. 16. - Hunters from Susquehanna, Pa., while excavating for a hunt near Shohola Glen discovered a cave in which they found the skeleton of a man of gigantic size. It was swathed in rawhide trappings that kept it in a sitting posture, the knees drawn up to the hand and clasped in a bony embrace with fleshless arms. Near the skeleton were several bowls of reddish clay, almost as hard as flint. A stone tablet was found near the skeleton’s side covered with rude pictures of birds and beasts, among them one of a monster half beast, half reptile. A number of implements were also found in the cave, among them a huge ax made of stone and stone spearheads of unusual size.

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