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How do they know it wasn't the other way around?
Being easterners, they forgot to look along the San Juan River and especially Sand Island for very similar male petroglyphs.
Have you read the debunking of Fell’s article published a few years later? http://cwva.org/ogam_rebutal/wirtz.html It seems that Fell was a fraud.
Whatever Fell’s mistakes were here and there, he wasn’t a fraud. Anyone who says he was simply doesn’t know what they’re talking about.
I know nothing about ancient Irish writing, but that rebuttal pointed out very convincingly that experts agreed that Fell’s claiks regarding the WV caves were completely illogical and without merit. From what I read, one would have to suspend disbelief to make Fell’s theory even plausible. There is some solud evidence of a pre-Columbian European presence in North America, but those cave etchings ain’t it.
Fell was continually attacked by some people who are/were dead set against acceptance of PreColumbian voyages of any kind, yes: but the claims they made are “illogical and without merit”. The tone was set by “Archaeology” magazine, which called one of his books “a candidate for burning”.
I live 7 miles from Sweetwater park. Grew up going there...went down it’s class three and four rapids(Was ignorant at the time)on an innertube when I was 16. At 45, I use a kayak.
Just found the article about the petroglyphs this past weekend.
This entire area was well populated with Mississipian peoples. Sweetwater, The Chattahoochie, Dog River, Annewake creek, and the etowah all hold artifacts. So does the flint down south. Not twenty odd miles north is the Etowah mound complex...which very closely resembles kolomoki in structure and artifacts.
I’d be very interested in hearing y’alls opinion. My non-professional, non-educated opinion is it is the work of peoples living here.
That section of Sweetwater is different and sacred. For most of it’s 45 mile length, Sweetwater creek is a slow moving ditch. Then, through it’s one mile run through the creek, it’s transformed into a wide, rocky, raging mountain river. Interestingly enough, the creek bed through the park is the exposed Brevard fault line, which marks the boundry between the end of hill country and the Appalachains.
Thanks Vigilantcitizen.
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