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Title The ancient giants who ruled America : the missing skeletons and the great Smithsonian cover-up / Richard J Dewhurst
Imprint Rochester, Vermont : Bear & Company, 2014

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 Stadsbibl:Slottet vån 4 Geografi och historia  930.1 engelska    CHECK SHELF  ---
Descript x, 357 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Note "A study of the substantial evidence for a former race of giants in North America and its 150-year suppression by the Smithsonian Institute"--Provided by publisher
Includes bibliographical references (pages 346-347) and index
Part I. Findings on ancient American giants. How big were they? ; North America: land of the giants ; How old? Clues from mastodons and carbon dating ; Copper-crowned kings and pearl-bedecked queens -- Part II. Sophisticated cultures of the ancient giants. Pyramids and pictorial mounds ; Cities in circles and lines ; A copper kingdom and mica mines ; Treasures of giant burial grounds -- Part III. Pre-Columbian foreign contact. Holy stones, a calendar stele, and foreign coins ; Extremely ancient red-haired mummies ; Megalithic Catalina: the blond-haired children of the nine-feet-tall kings ; Insights into origins
Drawing on 400 years of newspaper articles and photos, first person accounts, state historical records, and illustrated field reports, Richard J. Dewhurst reveals not only that North America was once ruled by an advanced race of giants but also that the Smithsonian has been actively suppressing the physical evidence for nearly 150 years. He shows how thousands of giant skeletons have been unearthed at Mound Builder sites across the continent, only to disappear from the historical record. He examines other concealed giant discoveries, such as the giant mummies found in Spirit Cave, Nevada, wrapped in fine textiles and dating to 8000 BCE; the hundreds of red-haired bog mummies found at sinkhole "cenotes" on the west coast of Florida and dating to 7500 BCE; and the ruins of the giants' cities with populations in excess of 100,000 in Arizona, Oklahoma, Alabama, and Louisiana. Dewhurst shows how this suppression began shortly after the Civil War and transformed into an outright cover-up in 1879 when Major John Wesley Powell was appointed Smithsonian director, launching a strict pro-evolution, pro-Manifest Destiny agenda. He also reveals the 1920s' discovery on Catalina Island of a megalithic burial complex with 6,000 years of continuous burials and over 4,000 skeletons, including a succession of kings and queens, some more than 9 feet tall--the evidence for which is hidden in the restricted-access evidence rooms at the Smithsonian.--Publisher's description
Subject Giants -- North America
Human remains (Archaeology) -- North America
Paleoanthropology -- North America
Civilization, Ancient.
Giants.
Human remains (Archaeology)
Paleoanthropology.
Mänskliga kvarlevor
Paleoantropologi
North America
Nordamerika 
Classmark 930.1
ISBN/ISSN 9781591431718 (pbk.)
1591431719 (pbk.)
9781591437529 (ebook)
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