Posted on 10/07/2019 6:38:58 AM PDT by cll
There are hints of this possibility in South America. So if possible they would have more than likely landed in Puerto Rico on the way.
This is a good source, it explains more detail about how they came to this conclusion about these stones.
I agree, ancient cultural interchange was common even for island people.
I’ve seen photos of Atlanta area artifacts which were later destroyed by locals. It’s good that these items were taken to authorities, even skeptical ones won’t destroy the artifacts.
My bet they are Phoenician or Carthaginian —Egyptian mummies had cocaine in them It only grows in the new world—ancient people came west to get the stuff to make money and kept it secret to have a lock on the cocaine trade. Impacted the New World cultures. Carthaginians used human sacrifice. That or it could be Atlantean?
Thanks all, will ping later.
Wow, nice link!
I’ve lost track of it, but in the past few days I’d been reading an article that sorted out a couple of “extinct” tribes who’d left different cultural traces on the same island or part of some island. DNA was finally extracted and one group that seemed to have cultural affinity with a group or groups in the Bolivian Andes actually matched that in the DNA as well. It seems amazing, but after all, the ancestors of island dwellers didn’t get there on foot.
Taino DNA search:
https://www.google.com/search?q=Taino+dna
There was also a Sephardic Jew presence in New Mexico, both converts and clandestine practitioners. It was a long way to Mexico City and the Inquisition.
I was able to read the article using outline.com, here is the outline version:
It was found that the mummies were contaminated by old preservation methods. In the 19th century it was thought cocaine (and other new world plant products) was a preservative. Human sacrifice was common in the old world (really common in China, fairly common in europe). That doesn’t do much to advance an old world/ new world contact scenario. So far there isn’t any strong evidence of contact although I hold that China has the strongest claim of contact.
One anthropologist took on the research of finding crypto-Jews in New Mexico. Turns out the entire story and related artifacts were mostly the product of Seventh Day Adventists who migrated there from Mexico City after WW1.
This is what I mean about religious groups creating stories and fake artifacts. Some early Mormons did it too.
Fakes the could be, maybe? But accurate? Was you dere Charlie?
I was canning tuna at the time.
It was found that the mummies were contaminated by old preservation methods.
No, it wasn't. That was immediately saddled on of course, but turned out not to be true. Tobacco or a close relative was definitely used (and samples found deep inside) by ancient Egyptians, as an ancient preservative. It doesn't prove contact, because another explanation that has been hypothesized (but for which there is no evidence so far) is that both a cocaine-producing plant and another (besides henbane etc) relative of tobacco was native to Egypt or adjacent ares of Africa but has died out, as the blue lotus and the papyrus reed almost has.
Some of the reasons for the “disappearance” of so many American artifacts is they didn’t fit the prevalent theories, plus Smith was married to an indian and did not want to cast them in any possible bad light, there was also some Christian religious reason of the time, I believe, for the hiding away.
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