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Welcome back to Coast to Coast AM, Richard Serrett, sitting in for George Norrie and investigative historian,

avocational archaeologist and author. Jason Jarell is with me, ages of the giants, a cultural

history of the tall ones in prehistoric America, which he co-authored with Sarah Farmer. Now,

where did giants fit in with Native American cosmology? Did the giants,

did they arrive in North America before Native Americans or were, did they coexist? Tell me about that.

Well, to begin with, they were a recurring element in the general prehistoric population of North

America that goes back to the original founding groups who entered the continent from Eurasia at

least 20,000 years ago. They were not guaranteed any type of status or leadership positions by virtue

of their unique physicality. This is testified by the fact that while they're found in group

burials, just carelessly dumped into a pit in some of the ancient tombs, in other tombs, they are

found with exotic goods, which suggests that some of them had leadership positions.

But in fact, they were actually a part of the base population, and they actually continued up to

historic times when they were documented among the existing Native American tribes.

And you do a lot of work investigating mounds up and down the Ohio Valley.

Were these burial mounds used to entomb these giants or were they used for non-giants as well?

Members of the non-giant population? Well, most of the population was made up of people without

the unique physicality. The burial mounds which formed the primary focus of my research are of

the Adina and Hopewell Mound Building Cultures in the Ohio Valley. Together, these cultures date to

between 500 BC and roughly 500 AD. And the burial mounds of these two cultures, these Earthwork

Building Cultures in the Ohio Valley, have been found to contain more unusually large

skeletons than the tombs of any other ancient culture from anywhere else in the history of the

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