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I have been to the cave and stomped the area very thoroughly. I also have discussed the red haired people with Paiute medicine women at great length. The actual time of the events are hard to pin down since the old Paiutes didn’t really seem to care much about time. The red heads do seem to fit the time line but do not seem to fit European exploration time line. There are notes in Chinese history of large red headed people from the Mongel area but most modern Mongels are not what we would consider tall. Keep in mind also that Paiutes tend to be smaller in stature than many plains Indians. So tall could be an perception. The skeletons would seem to be from people more on the taller side of what we would consider the norm today. One old Shoshone told me that they came from the city of the ancients (I pondered this for some time and concluded that they must be referring to Atlantis or possibly some Central American culture — except that that wouldn’t fit the migration theory at all). I do question why Atlantians (if they existed) would be chased of by Paiutes with relatively crude weapons and tactics - never mind that that doesn’t seem to fit well into the time line. I have asked both Sioux and Cherokee if their oral traditions have an Atlantis story - can't get a definitive answer - other than Atlantis is about the NA's in this continent. Lastly there is a group of bone hunters that travel the area extensively looking for artifacts. They will openly discuss the probability that this is some very ancient race on the waining of their span of time. The possibility that the red heads come from something other that accepted development and spread of humans would again through science into a tizzy.

I go out of my way to travel the area and hunt along the current water ways. It is very clear that at one point there was much more water there than the current situation and not just the inland sea that covered the area all the way to SLC.