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Two
primary sources of evidence are available as to the racial affinities of the peoples
who inhabited eastern North America at the epoch when the megalithic sites
were in occupation. The first and
major source of evidence comprises skeletons and skulls excavated from
burials where the bones are found in association with artifacts that bear
readable inscriptions. This skull,
which closely resembles European types, is from Holliston Mills, eastern
Tennessee. It shows a racial type
that occupied the region in early Woodland times and that is associated, at
the neighboring site of Snapp's Bridge, with inscribed artifacts bearing
Ancient Irish and Basque words and phrases appropriate to the first
millennium BC. Similar remains from a
mound near Boston have been amino-acid dated to ca. 5000 BC, these apparently
representing the earliest European Atlantic crossings (Fell 1982). [Photo by Walter Eitel.] |
