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ANYTIME that artifacts are found that toss a curve into the "ESTABLISHED" and "taught" history those artifacts are always labeled hoaxes, plants or mis-identified. There IS an affort underway, and has been underway for hundreds if not thousands of years to hide the truth of real history. Even human "evolution" is suspect. With many of the African as well as the European ancient man fossil bones not even being human. We as historians and investigators should by now fully realize that Columbus was far from being the "first" to land on North America. Just look at the ancient copper mines of Michigans Upper peninsula for one. It HAS been proven those mines were worked 5000 years ago and the copper mined from then was chemically identified in Europe.
To me,,, this is a lot of food for thought.
Well, the amount of estimated copper removed in ancient times is often cited to argue the Phonecians, the Mediterranean world's greatest sailors might have "discovered" the Americas. But it is far from a proven fact that they were mining copper in Michigan. Of course, the Old Copper Culture was. I have been involved with research into Pre-Columbian explorations to the New World since the late 70's. I don't have the answers, but, it stands to reason that very few mainstream American archaeologists have bought into the "mined by ancient Europeans" theory. If I can find out any more about the chemical matches you mention, I'll post them, but I know they have been seriously disputed. There are two sides to that conclusion.
A serious critique of "America Unearthed" episode that pushed the "Old World exploitation of Michigan copper theory" As always, or so it seems, the answer is much less cut and dry as the "alternative theories of American prehistory" would have one believe.
http://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/review-of-America-unearthed-s01e03-great-lakes-copper-heist
Dispelling some Myths about the Old Copper Culture
Although focused on the Northeast, we(NEARA, see link below)have spanned the hemisphere in search of evidence for Pre-Columbian contact with the Americas, including the possibility of Old World penetration as far as the Great Lakes. Of course, Viking enthusiasts think the Vikings got that far. Did any Old World civilizations do so long before the Christian Era? We do know that copper was exploited by the Old Copper Culture for thousands of years, as well as later groups like Adena/Hopewell.
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I like to say we live in an Age of Conspiracy theories. It started with the JFK assassination. But, by now, there is a widespread distrust in authority in many realms. Not just in politics, but in scholarship and what we are taught in school as well. Nowhere does this belief in conspiracies to hide the truth seem to be more applied to American prehistory then on the History Network's "America Unearthed". The host, forensic geologist Scott Wolter has been strongly applying this modern conspiracy mindset-focus to our prehistory and has been promulgating the very false belief that the Smithsonian has been involved in a conscious conspiracy to hide the truth of American history from the American public. To which I say: poppycock!! BS!! One of his silliest suggestions is that there was a cave in the Grand Canyon containng a wealth of ancient Egyptian artifacts. First mentioned by alternative writer Brian Childress, this story has been shown to be just an old 19th newspaper article designed to boost circulation. No truth to it whatsoever. Yet, Wolter and others are spreading this conspiracy nonsense. He is guilty of the dumbing down of the American public where their own history is concerned. This is a very regrettable development and so typical of the History Network to sacrifice a discriminating debate in favor of utter nonsense. All this is just the modern penchant for promoting conspiracy theories as a means of interpreting the uttering of authorities in any field as lies, designed to hide the truth from us. Really? Is that what is happening now in the peopling of the Americas debate? We seem to have accepted the truth of Pre-Clovis. The Clovis-First model was a reigning paradigm, it most certainly was not a conspiracy theory!!
Yes, there was Pre-Columbian contact. But there is no conscious conspiracy on the part of American scholarship to hide some radical truth. The fact is the folks that bring forth alternative theories often rely on highly questionable sources, like 19th century newspaper yarns.....
Hitndahed wrote:
"I really love the finds that no one can explain."
Me too!
