Archaeology: Saga of giant Mound Builders is a tall tale that won’t go away – By Bradley Lepper (The Columbus Dispatch) / April 26 2020
Charlatans are still trying to strip American Indians of their heritage by claiming that some mysterious lost race of white people, giants or aliens built Ohio’s ancient earthworks.
It seems I can no longer give a public program about Ohio’s amazing ancient American Indian mounds without someone in the audience asking me about giants, or the lost tribes of Israel — or even aliens.
I try to address these questions politely and explain that there is no hard evidence that any of these things had anything to do with Ohio’s mounds. Occasionally, if the person asking the question is a true believer, they’ll accuse me of lying and hiding the evidence that would prove me wrong.
Some people actually believe that the Ohio History Connection (along with the Smithsonian Institution) has skeletons of giant humans in our collections that we keep hidden from the public. The first time someone accused me of this I was dumbfounded and asked, “Why on earth would we do that?”
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