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## Incident ID: INC-2023-0472
**Date:** 2023 (initial public reports); 2024 (peer review analysis published)
**Location:** Julcuy village area, Azuay Province, Ecuador
**Reporting Agency:** Compiled from local excavation reports, documentary interview transcripts, and independent anthropological review (Nicholas Landol)
**Status:** UNRESOLVED
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**SUMMARY:**
A human skeletal assemblage was reported to have been recovered from the Julcuy village area and was subsequently the subject of public claims asserting anomalously large stature. The recovery, media presentation, and subsequent independent anthropological review were documented. The anthropological review concluded that the individual’s living stature was consistent with a modern human population range and that prior public height claims had been overstated. One photographic/press artifact producing a large stature claim remains unaccounted for in available documentation.
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**BACKGROUND AND INITIAL REPORTS:**
An excavation was reported to have been conducted in a small rural site proximate to Julcuy village. The discovery was reported in local media and was later presented in a documentary series episode titled "Lost Race of Giants" from the series Code of the Wild. Two researchers identified in public materials as Delgado and Toulkeridis were interviewed in that program and were shown in footage within a laboratory or storage facility setting discussing the recovery and preliminary observations.
Public or semi-public materials were circulated following the recovery. A popular science outlet's magazine imagery was observed in at least one secondary publication's visual corpus; the magazine's cover image was displayed on an electronic tablet in a still-frame that was included in derivative coverage. The cover image was not used as primary scientific documentation but was circulated alongside statements about the recovery in online forums.
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**EXCAVATION RECORD (as reported):**
- Site access and chain-of-custody records were reported to have been initiated by local field personnel. The specific field logbook entries were cited in later public statements but have not been released in full to the public record.
- A skeletal assemblage was reported to have been recovered from a single articulated context. The recovery context was reported to have been in a shallow burial cut. No stratigraphic profile sheets were provided in public materials.
- The assemblage was reported to have been transferred to a nearby repository for cataloguing and conservation. Photographs of the assemblage were included in some media presentations; a subset of those photographs included overlay text and graphical elements added by third-party media.
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**MEDIA PRESENTATION AND PUBLIC CLAIMS:**
- The documentary episode entitled "Lost Race of Giants" aired and included on-camera interviews with Delgado and Toulkeridis. Their presence was observable in laboratory lighting (high-intensity LED fixtures typi
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