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Boerseun is spot on. My point was not well-founded. I've just peeked around google and it looks like DNA and x-rays are used to determine sex only when necessary and are by far not the only method used. I digress.
I'm also thinking,
There are of course cases where archaeological finds are covered up so that they may be looted. Happens in Egypt all the time. I wonder...
-modest
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The theft aspect did cross my mind, but there is no mention of gold in the 1909 article. I find it a bit unbelievable the Egyptians wouldn't have it if they were here, and more so that 'Kinkaid' wouldn't mention it.
Another curious bit is that in 1909 the Smithsonian was poppin with change.
Charles Walcott had just taken over as Secretary, Walcott had made his discovery of the Burgess shale in British Columbia in 1909, and the Smithsonian's new
museum building was complete enough to start moving in collections. All good enough reasons for someone to hype a 'new discovery' in an effort to get on the gravy train.
So, as Boerseun says, on with the thread!
How about Egyptians (Phoenicians) mining copper in Michigan? ...
Michigan's mysterious Indian mounds
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Originally Posted by Vivian M. Baulch
...Dr Henriette Mertz, in her book, "The Mystic Symbol," (1986) speculates that the ancient Phoenician mariners traveled to Upper Michigan to mine the extremely pure and abundant copper lodes to satisfy the demands of the ancient Egyptians and Greeks. The mines of Sinai, she says had been played out by that time, and those of Crete were too meager. Records spoke of an alien red-skinned people linked with the import of copper and that it took three years for the ocean vessles to return with their copper. Mertz cites tablets found in Michigan with hieroglyphic and cuneiform writing, often dismissed as forgeries, as evidence of later contact with the Mediterranean. ...
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