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“During this thousand-year period of mining, some of the miners must have explored the continent to the west, as evidenced by strangely large skeletons in a lot of places, such as the red-haired giants who came by boat to Lovelock Cave on Lake Lahontan (Nevada), that were found in 1924 with fishnets and duck decoys (Ref.77).”
The red haired giants is an interesting question. I have been to Lovelock Cave on numerous occasions. Unfortunately there are no artifacts remaining or any traces of the original discovery in the 1920s at the cave. There are rumored to be skeletons sequestered by court order in the Nevada State Museum in Carson City. I have investigated this and have not been able to get a comment from Museum leadership. Also, the timeline from the Piautes is not definitive and does not lend itself to traditional research. There is also a faction of the Paiute tribe that do not want the old ways discussed or talked about and have actually outlawed (in tribal terms) discussing the ancient history with Europeans.
Two things of note. The Piautes are by heredity a short people. I believe this comes from a life they were having sparse resources and natural selection picked the ones that required less resources to survive. So any other humans of what would be considered normal size in Europe during this timeframe would appear to be giants to the Piautes. It should also be noted that Bronze Age humans were short by our standards today.
I am planning to spend some time this Summer further investigating this story.
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