Waiting for liberals to hijack today with smallpox and indigenous people conquered, blah, blah ,blah. It doesn’t matter the Viking and some say Phoenicians were here before Christopher
Where copper is concerned (Bronze Age), likely Minoans for the Mediterranean tin industry, Scandinavians for the northern. Lots of coming and going (north and south) between those two geographic/trade complexes as well.
Sorry, edit: This guy's a skeptic but look at how hard he's fighting not to accept any model other than Muh Indians. (Typical academic.)
When I lived in Wisconsin and spent a lot of time in small towns and rural areas, there was a LOT of talk about the early inhabitants of the Great Lakes area being tall, red haired, blue eyed seafarers and miners/smiths (or I guess more accurately copper puddlers). There were a LOT of people doing grassroots archaeological surveying, especially of earthworks.
I knew a mainstream geologist/cartographer with the USGS and University of Wisconsin who spent his weekends and vacations walking the land and mapping lithic features (like cairns, walls, paths) he knew how to look for, and he suspected they were way earlier than "indigenous people." After we'd known each other a good while, he quietly confided that there was, in his view, a "stone language" by which people encoded all sorts of experience about the local terrain. Where to find water or game or shelter, excavation notes/directions/sites, etc. Since then I've searched regularly for some indication he ever got that written up or published, with no luck.
Sorting wheat from chaff on that information was a challenge, but the fact that mainstream archaeology has tried so hard to Shut It Down on this topic always got my attention. I was always interested in what just regular local people had to say, even if a lot of it seemed offbeat.
Waiting for liberals to hijack today with smallpox and indigenous people conquered, blah, blah ,blah. It doesn’t matter the Viking and some say Phoenicians were here before Christopher
Where copper is concerned (Bronze Age), likely Minoans for the Mediterranean tin industry, Scandinavians for the northern. Lots of coming and going (north and south) between those two geographic/trade complexes as well.
Sorry, edit: This guy's a skeptic but look at how hard he's fighting not to accept any model other than Muh Indians. (Typical academic.)
https://www.andywhiteanthropology.com/blog/the-oxhide-ingot-from-lake-gogebic-michigan
https://archive.is/rI6f2
When I lived in Wisconsin and spent a lot of time in small towns and rural areas, there was a LOT of talk about the early inhabitants of the Great Lakes area being tall, red haired, blue eyed seafarers and miners/smiths (or I guess more accurately copper puddlers). There were a LOT of people doing grassroots archaeological surveying, especially of earthworks.
I knew a mainstream geologist/cartographer with the USGS and University of Wisconsin who spent his weekends and vacations walking the land and mapping lithic features (like cairns, walls, paths) he knew how to look for, and he suspected they were way earlier than "indigenous people." After we'd known each other a good while, he quietly confided that there was, in his view, a "stone language" by which people encoded all sorts of experience about the local terrain. Where to find water or game or shelter, excavation notes/directions/sites, etc. Since then I've searched regularly for some indication he ever got that written up or published, with no luck.
Sorting wheat from chaff on that information was a challenge, but the fact that mainstream archaeology has tried so hard to Shut It Down on this topic always got my attention. I was always interested in what just regular local people had to say, even if a lot of it seemed offbeat.
https://www.burlingtonnews.net/burlingtonmounds.html
Fascinating reply…thank you! Can’t wait to hear the real truth
Lots of mining on Isle Royal no one really knows by whom or when. But the old pits are their,I've seen them myself.