[SunkenCiv]

a link from Yuri's page (also by Yuri):

http://www.trends.ca/~yuku/tran/9h8.htm

"In the Milwaukee Public Museum there is the skull of a mustang excavated in 1936 by W.C. McKern from a mound on Spencer Lake in NW Wisconsin (47BT2), and vouched for by McKern in the _Wisconsin Archaeologist_, Vol. 45, #2 (June 1964), pp. 118-120. Says McKern , 'there remains no reasonable question as to the legitimacy of the horse skull that we found as a burial association placed in the mound by its builders.'"

[pillbox_girl]

You're cherry picking the report. Further on it says there is at least anecdotal evidence the horse skull is a later introduction into the mound strata. While other items at the dig have been confirmed to be pre-columbian by carbon dating, the horse skull itself has not been objectively dated. For such a potentially archaeologically important find, especially one with verbal evidence against its legitimacy, accepting an age based on faith and the confirmed age of legitimate artifacts is unacceptable. "Piltdown Man" is an example of why this must be so.

The mustang skull itself will need to be carbon dated before it's purported age can be considered legitimate. Until then, it must be considered of dubious merit.

That being said, when it finally is carbon dated, if it does turn out to be legitimately pre-columbian, then it is probably one of the most significant finds in archeology.