If people in Dwapara Yuga were ten times bigger, why don’t we see such fossils?

From Sumit P

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Question from Sumit Prabhu. It is said that 5000 years ago, that is in Dwapar Yuga, humans were 10 times the size of the present human beings in Kali Yuga. So then, why don’t we find fossils that big through archaeology? Answer, three reasons.
First is, in the Vedic tradition, people would be burned, cremated. And when there is cremation, then practically no fossils remain. So, from the Vedic historical worldview, if the followers of the Vedic tradition were spread all over the world, then the funeral rite of cremation would also have been spread in different parts of the world.
So therefore, it is unlikely that even if people were of such a big size, their remains would be there. Because fossils are preserved only when there is no cremation, there is no burning of the body. If there is burial, which is consciously done by human beings, or which is just done by nature, then the bones will remain.
Secondly, it is not necessary that when we say that the humans were 10 times as big, that all humans at that time were 10 times that big. Because even at that time, we see that there are different kinds of people, with different kinds of body forms. So, for example, at the time of the Mahabharata, there are people of different backgrounds, and they all have different bodily capacities.
So, some of the forces who come in the fight of the Kauravas are Rakshasas. Ghatotkacha is a Rakshasa on the side of Pandavas, and there are some people who come from the northeastern area who had mystical powers. So, the point is that there were almost like, at that time, different species, human beings of different natures living, and not everyone did to have been that big.
The general point that is made, when we talk about the living beings in the previous ages being longer, being bigger in size or whatever, the point is that there is a decline in Kali Yuga, and that decline is not just in terms of inner ethical character’s decline, but also in terms of outer physical proudness and physical size and lifespan decline also. So, we have to understand that this is something which was for the followers of the Aryavarta, and there were many people who were living in the Vedic, even in the Vedic times, who were not necessarily following the Vedic culture fully. They might be at various fringes.
So, that will also be a factor which, if people were not following the Vedic culture, that means there may be people of smaller sizes also at that time. And third is that in archaeology, much of the fossils, if the topsoil gets denuded, as happens with the flow of water through the rivers and because of rains, much of the topsoil gets washed away and it goes into the deep ocean at the bottom. So, practically nobody has done any archaeological findings using the bottom of the ocean bed, because that is almost impossible to do.
So, even according to archaeologists themselves, a vast majority of the earth’s fossils would be at the bottom of the earth. So, what we can say is that archaeology, archaeological record does not give us a complete picture of the earth and especially as is described in some of the Vedic scriptures, that at the juncture of Kali Yuga, at the transition from one Yuga to another, there is severe cataclysm that happens. Cataclysm means a natural disaster involving floods or earthquakes or things like that.
Then that would also contribute to certain environmental destabilizations which would wipe out fossils. So, in general, when we focus on the scriptures, our focus should be on understanding the essential, universal, time-independent teachings of the scriptures, that is the teachings of love for Krishna and how we can develop that love. And everything else is peripheral and although it is important and although it can be researched about more, but it should be made subordinate to the primary scriptural teaching of redirecting our heart from the world to Krishna.
Thank you.