"Fishin'Squatch" holding a Chinook Salmon

LOCATION: This big guy was rendered over several overnights in Florence & Coolidge, Arizona.

FROM MY FACEBOOK: 25 May 2016--Yeah!--All done!--The title is: "FISHIN'SQUATCH!"--OK! I've been dicking around with this doodle done in straight up pens&inks office supplies since last September. It started out as me at home studying a movable forensic three-dimensional wrapping of the skull of a northeastern Chinese Homo erectus on computer and then blue-penciling the skull onto a scrap of old art paper that I had on hand. I ratcheted up the overall skull armoring by thirty percent in size and then I built up the tissues creating a hypothetical forensic composite of a Homo erectus subspecies giganticus "Sasquatch" / "Almas."

Numerous sketches and attempted renders of Hominoid Neogiants and Hominin/Hominid individuals have intrigued a number of book authors and television segment producers going back to 1992. I believe I started this render in 2015 and finished it around a year later. My current hypothesis is that Homo erectus was driven nearly to extinction except for certain populations that gave up sophisticated food preparation technologies and even fire and resorted to disappearing into the most remote forests and mountain habitats where "Woodcraft" and "Stealth" and nocturnal activities saved them from being hunted to extinction by we Homo sapiens archaics and we Homo sapiens sapiens over the last 218,000 years.

Growing as big as the biggest bears protected them from both the Neanderthals and us. Being enormous and extra smelly protected them from predation by the largest polar bears, brown bear populations and short-faced bears. Massive jaw muscles needed to be anchored along the parietal plates of the skull as well as over the roof to where sagittal crests and enlarged keels provided the skeletomuscular anchorage. This was how they masticated pine nuts, acorns, really gamey venison and all else that they eat raw.