Hello Orablanco, great stuff, I will get back on the (iron pots) story, my books have been in storage,(I can't even find my autographed copy of Gloria's book).
Have you seen True West, April 1983 issue? It has a great story of small mummified people found in Wyoming, one sitting on a ledge, in a cavern blasted out of solid rock, by miners.
A long list of calamities befell the people who were in contact with the mummies, I have the book with great pictures.
(the mummies were x-rayed & found to be genuine).
Regarding ancient peoples, I quote from Jim Brandon's book
(Wierd America), Yell CO.AR, The Aikman mounds, in a remote area near Bluffton in the sw corner of the co, midway between Ft. Smith & Hot Springs, have been found to contain hugh numbers of human skulls, Washington University, St Louis, & the University of AR, Fayetteville, sent teams to excavate here in the late 1920's.
They found that many of the skulls had been crushed, & this has led to speculation that their owners might have been clubbed to death in a great prehistoric battle. there were also large quantities of bracelets, rings, & animal bones.
Another such mass grave was uncovered by a professor Edwin Walters closer to Ft. Smith in 1898. In a 30 acre area, he found hugh numbers of skeletons,many of which had crushed skulls or spearheads lying among the ribs. The battle, if that was what it is, has been estimated as occuring about 8,000 years ago,( in another report , he said 20,000) & must have caused the deaths of about 100,000 persons. this would make it one of the greatest battles of all history & certainly one of the most intense.
I have a newspaper article regarding the same story, A booklet called (Ft. Smith, Souvenir of the Queen city of the southwest), by RH Mohler, published in 1898.
According to the booklet, when the Kansas City, Pittsburgh & Gulf Railroad was built through this area workers discovered many human skeletons at Redlands, eight to nine miles southwest of Ft. Smith.
Proffesor Walters, eminent archaeolist-geogolist of the time investigated. He said 60,000 to 100,000 indian warriors had been killed in battle more than 20,000 years earlier when the moundbuilders tribe from up north clashed with the Mayas from South America.
They were two great races contending for North American supremacy.
the battle line was south of the Ar river, Walters studied for 17 years, some bones were cleft with javelin, some skulls pierced by spears, & stone axes.
neither side won, & both retreated, eventually to disappear from the earth, it was he theorized, the biggest fight ever on this continent.
But the Archaelogists in this area don't want to talk much about it,
much less mention it in a history of the area. (I plan to read the book), it is not allowed to be checked out of the library. remember, this man spent 17 years studing this. ( not in FT. Smith library).
(more on giant & little people)
In another quote from WIERD AMERICA, BY JIM BRANDON,
Near Grand Canyon South Rim, 90 mi. NW of Flagstaff; permission of The Havasupai Tourist Enterprise, Supai, Az 86435, is necessary for entry. Inquire in advance for best access route. This is the site of a freizelike band of rock carvings that are full of riddles, among others, there is an apparent likeness of a carniverous, dinosaurlike creature- presumably Tyrannosaurus rex- that no human eye should have seen, since according to standard chronology, dinosaurs vanished at least 20 million years before human beings appeared.
Aside from the putative dinasour, other extinct animals such as the North American rhinoceros are more clearly visible. One figure is undoubtably an elephantidaean, possibly a mammoth, and seems to be fighting with a humanoid who, if drawn to scale, would be about 10 feet tall. Dating of the glyphs has been practically impossible, but their 20 foot height above the canyon floor is intresting, leading to speculation that they must have been made when the creek was much higher, an inestimable amount of time ago(or else by giant artists!).
the only way to reach the figures today are either to be let down with a rope from above or through the use of long ladders. the pictographs were made by chipping through a black scale called (desert varnish), on the surface of the red sandstone. this oxide is extremely slow to form, but it has already layered over the pictographs. again, a sign of an age so vast as to make the chronologies of the !! Bering Strait boys!! seem paltry.
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