DowrgiAvebury, Stonehenge, etc. are the same structures built in U.S. that we’re talking about, correct?
Well, they’re stones, arranged in a circle – as can be found along with other megaliths all over the world, including Britain, continental Europe – especially in Sardinia, Africa – the Senegambian stone circles in the The Gambia and Senegal, South America, Japan, and elsewhere, to name but a few examples. To say that these are the same structures could be debated in terms of style, size, and scope, nevertheless, having said that, and with all due respect to our ancient forebears, they’re stones arranged in a circle based, we think, on the natural cycles of the seasons, Sun, Moon, and stars that would have been common to cultures across the globe. The technology involved isn’t all that remarkable to put it bluntly.
So if the same people built the same stone circles in Britain and America it couldn’t have been the Native Americans who built them. It must be some other group.
Why would have to be the same people or culture that erected them? That’s a bit of a leap there. The problem with the argument here is that because something is superficially similar, it does not meant that it must have been created by the same culture. I don’t think there’s anything to back that up. For example, writing emerged in cultures that were separated in time and space from one another, with no contact, and other inventions and discoveries no doubt. Blowpipes/guns are/were used in parts of South East Asia and in Central and South America, boomerangs have been found in sites dating from Stone Age Europe, and King Tutankhamun had his own private collection apparently …
Stone tablets with ancient alphabets in other languages have been found and have been declared by experts via carbon dating and the like to be from thousands of years ago.
I’d be suspicious of any theory based on the C-14 dating of stone tablets to be honest. Nevertheless, the fact that an ancient culture may have existed with some form of written language that has since been forgotten doesn’t prove much in itself, nor does it suggest that the culture in question were non-indigenous. There are numerous undeciphered alphabets, syllabaries, and forgotten or only partially-understood languages from around the world that were indigenous at one time or another, including Cretan Linear A, Etruscan, Tartessian, Indus Valley script – even the Mayan written language was only undeciphered in the 20th century if I’m not mistaken.
Our Smithsonian museum here in Washington D.C. has some of these skeletons but they aren’t on display and are hidden away in their vaults. I myself have read old newspaper accounts of these skeletons being found and sent to Smithsonian, only to never hear about them again.
Ah, the so-called giants of the early 20th century, which either turned out to hoaxes or misidentified megafauna. If, as you assert, such remains were indeed held by some venerable institution, what would it gain from hiding them? Absolutely nothing. On the other hand, if they were indeed genuine, would it not be a major attraction and, thus, to the museum’s benefit to put them on display – as museums do with every other amazing find?
Apparently, giants in America is a well-guarded secret but more evidence keeps surfacing lately.
Not much of a secret, it would seem. I think that you need a bit more than hearsay and old newspaper cuttings to count as evidence in the truest sense of the word.
Forgive me for being sceptical.