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Originally posted by SquirrelNutz
Originally posted by Hanslune
reply to post by Harte
Gave you a star for a well written reply
And, why wouldn't you. You two have been jerking each other off this entire thread.
(to be fair, I agree - it was a good response)
Originally posted by Logarock
Man you guys are hard headed apes! I dont have to back it up.....you can hear it from the source itself for yourself. Dont need me to back up anythng here.
Originally posted by Logarock
reply to post by Harte
No somebody checked it out for themselves. Something you could do.
Originally posted by Logarock
Man you guys are hard headed apes! I dont have to back it up.....you can hear it from the source itself for yourself. Dont need me to back up anythng here.
Originally posted by Logarock
You should know youre subject matter a little better.
That or your just running off at the mouth knowing that most that read here are interested but have not taken the time to study the development of archeology in this country. Most folks have little understanding that the golden age of archeology/defusion research took place many years ago in this country with a few high points here and there over the years.
Originally posted by nighthawk1954
Originally posted by Harte
Originally posted by nighthawk1954
I have seen the one in Mass. No way ancient Indians or early settlers made these structures.
Once again science denies their true origins.
If you mean the stones "balanced" on three smaller stones, you're right.
Those are made naturally when glaciers melt.
I believe they had some glaciers in Mass. at some point in the past, right?
Harte [/quote
No I am talking about stone structures with 3 ton plus on top for roof's .
I have seen 3 ...very cool , no way people's of the time could do this in New England.
I dont think a 8 ft tall person of any time could lift 3 tonnes either.
was correct, the name “Dekenahwideh” means “double row of teeth.”
[Whispering into your ear very very quietly, because its a conspiracy]. Thats why...........
Originally posted by randyvs
Um, Excuse me everyone. Hello ? I just well. Can someone tell me why none of the high dollar videos in this thread work ? Except for the one on the last page................Please ? Before I have an aneurysm .edit on 11-2-2013 by randyvs because: (no reason given)
[Whispering into your ear very very quietly, because its a conspiracy]. Thats why...........
Is my name being taken in vain? You may have mentioned copper axes to me, but it was no revelation. I see FN pre-contact copper all the time. Wanna clarify?
Originally posted by Logarock
Yea nuck.....the guy I had to show that american indian tribes were found to have copper ax at the time of early explorers.
I see.
Originally posted by JohnnyCanuck
So much is being made of 19th century American newspaper reports of these ''giants". If you look at commentary on the moundbuilders during the same era, you'll note that they are always attributed to some other people than the First Nations who lived on those lands. Both are reflections of the same themes, that the FN had no claims over the lands and could therefore be eliminated from them by European settlers.
Wait, does that mean they thought that there might be a connection between large pre-columbian constructions in North America and large pre-columbian constructions farther south? Hah! How ridiculous.
Although the American Mound Builder myth had made its first appearance in the late eighteenth century, it was not fully endorsed by the American scientific community until 1848. In that year, the recently created Smithsonian Institute published E. G. Squire’s and E. H. Davis’ Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley. This publication connected the Mound Builder race with ‘advanced’ pre-conquest civilizations in Peru and Mexico.
Source: The Manitoba Historical Society
By 1892, the Smithsonian Institute had revised its initial opinion. A subsequent systematic examination of ancient American mounds resulted in the 1890-1891 Report on the Mound Explorations of the Bureau of Ethnology. This report finally established the builders of the Ohio and Mississippi mounds as the ancestors of America’s contemporary Native peoples.
Well, no giants here. Just blondes in baskets! ಠ_ಠ
[...]some instances in which the bodies have been found encased in stone slabs, and afterwards embedded in clay or ashes[...]the flesh of the bodies was preserved and the hair was yellow and of fine texture[...]In two cases the bodies, placed in a sitting or squatting posture, were encased in baskets.
[...]on the original surface of the ground, was a very large skeleton lying horizontally at full length[...]the base of the skull to the bones of the toes was found to be 7 feet 3 inches. It is probable, therefore, that this individual when living was fully 7½ feet high.
An old Indian mound has been opened[...]four miles east of Jackson, Ohio, and two skeletons of extraordinary size and a great quantity of trinkets have been removed.
[...]a number of bones not together as skeletons, but mingled in confusion and probably from scaffolds or other localities. Excepting one, which was rather more than 7 feet long, these skeletons appeared to be of medium size and many of them much decayed...
Nineteen feet from the top[...]a skeleton measuring 7½ feet in length and 19 inches across the shoulders, was discovered[...]
the skeleton of a large, strongly built man lay extended at full length with the face up, the head toward the east...The skull was obtained almost entire. Under it were thirteen water-worn quartz pebbles. The femur measured 18½ inches...
Source: Bureau of Ethnology to the Sec. of the Smithsonian Inst., Vol.12, 1890-1891
At some depth from the surface a kind of vault was found in which was discovered the skeleton of a giant[...]hair was coarse and jet black[...]the brow being ornamented with a copper crown. On the stones which covered the vault were carved inscriptions[...]The relics have been carefully packed and forwarded to the Smithsonian Institute[...]
Speculation: Glaciers.
Additionally, you might note that Canada has not been blessed with all these apparent giant burials.
Funny.
Our settlement process was different, in that the FN were cheated out of their lands by something resembling a legal process...no giants needed.
[...]the idea of a distinct Mound Builder race was advanced to explain the artificial mounds found in what was then Rupert’s Land. Donald Gunn was responsible for initiating this first step towards a Manitoba Mound Builder myth[...]Although Gunn referred to the creators of the burial mounds as a red skinned people, he did not believe that the mounds’ builders were related to the area’s current Native populations:
"[The] race who reared [the mounds] and whose remains they cover have passed away, or become absorbed in a race of red men; barbarous, possessing less energy and industry; for certainly the present race of red men are in every respect incapable of undergoing the labor necessary to accumulate such heaps of earth."