Posted on 12/13/2021 9:15:36 AM PST by SunkenCiv
Yeah. Hugh and series.
The Ica stones are definitely a hoax. I believe Erich von Däniken was taken in by them.
As for the Acámbaro figures in Mexico, thousands were made, but for a hoax? Possibly an expensive hoax as someone must have paid and took lots of time to make and fire them.
I believe I first read of them in a book by Erle Stanley Gardner of Perry Mason fame. He loved to travel in Mexico and find strange things. Only books of his I’ve read were about the Deserts of the SW and Mexico.
It’s in that article at the link.
I read the complete article about Ingram’s amazing journey. I have been researching to write a book located in the Ohio and Mississippi areas around 1800. Apparently eastern forest buffalo were well known by people at that time. The Indians used controlled fire to clean the floor of old growth forests. This greatly facilitated travel in those times.They also also burned open areas in the Shenandoah Valley and in the area of Mammoth Cave and the Green River to maintain a buffalo common which all Indians used according to specisl peace agreements honored by all for annual hunting in those
areas.
In the 1500s the great European disease plagues had not yet severely reduced the Indian populations of North America which undoubtedly reduced the maintenance of trails, fire cleaned forests, and buffalo commons. Thus,it is very hard today to imagine how travel in the 1500s might have been a lot easier especially since Europeans had not yet made enemies of interior Indian tribes in the US territory. Remember, Jamestown and Plymouth started in the early 1600s.
That link is a keeper! Bookmarked!
Now about those ancient Crystal Skulls of the Mayans...fake or real.
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