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(CLICK to Enlarge) 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.] |
