LEADER 00000cam 22012134i 4500 001 ocn827263144 003 OCoLC 008 130606s2014 vtua b 001 0 eng 020 9781591431718|q(pbk.) 020 1591431719|q(pbk.) 020 |z9781591437529|q(ebook) 041 eng 082 00 930.1|223 092 0 930.1|bengelska 100 1 Dewhurst, Richard J 245 14 The ancient giants who ruled America :|bthe missing skeletons and the great Smithsonian cover-up /|cRichard J Dewhurst 264 1 Rochester, Vermont :|bBear & Company,|c2014 300 x, 357 pages :|billustrations ;|c23 cm 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 500 "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 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 346-347) and index 505 0 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 520 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 650 0 Giants|zNorth America 650 0 Human remains (Archaeology)|zNorth America 650 0 Paleoanthropology|zNorth America 650 7 Civilization, Ancient.|2fast 650 7 Giants.|2fast 650 7 Human remains (Archaeology)|2fast 650 7 Paleoanthropology.|2fast 650 7 Mänskliga kvarlevor|2sao 650 7 Paleoantropologi|2sao 651 4 Nordamerika 651 7 North America 907 00 190529
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