Monday, July 7, 2025
Grave Creek, West Virginia Museum Archaeologist Alters Lithograph of Giant Skeleton in the Museum
Monday, August 19, 2024
The Desecration of Oneota Sioux Burials by Indiana (IPFW) Fort Wayne Archaeologists
The Desecration of Oneota Sioux Burials at Strawtown, Indiana by (IPFW) Fort Wayne Archaeologists
How a Native American burial site was desecrated in Hamilton County
County, university officials aggressively excavated ancient burial site at Strawtown Park, trampling on rights of tribes to protect their dead
Chris Sikich
"The first summer archaeologists began excavating a Native American burial ground at Strawtown Koteewi Park, they found a human jawbone.
The law was clear. They should have notified Native American tribes to allow them the opportunity to rebury their ancestor.
Instead, they studied, cataloged and boxed up the bone fragments. And for the next 10 years, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne's archaeological team and the Hamilton County Parks & Recreation Department continued digging aggressively — never notifying tribal leaders.
"What happened is awful," Richard Sutter, the head of IPFW's anthropology department, told IndyStar. "It's inexcusable."
"Andrew Smith and Craig Arnold, two of McCullough’s assistant archaeologists, said they excavated entire structures, in many cases leaving nothing untouched. They dug so extensively that future archaeologists who might have new technology will not be able to reinvestigate certain sites. Procedure calls for no more than half of structures to be excavated and they took so many artifacts from the ground, it left little money for analysis."
"Karin Maloney, an archaeologist who worked as a history interpreter for the park from 2006 to 2012, said she told McCullough and Patterson the excavations were violating NAGRPA within a year of being hired."
They did not stop until they uncovered a skull. They found a copper plate beneath the skull, indicating a person of status.
"I would say in general," Sutter said, "I don't think anybody who has knowingly violated NAGPRA regulations should be permitted to work as an archaeologist at a minimum.”
Arnold and Smith began working with the tribes, a collaboration that ultimately led to a list of 90,000 items that were found in graves, near human remains or within sacred sites.
Each new revelation over the next several years — from the fact human bones and grave offerings had been excavated, to the discovery that thousands of children had participated in digs at grave sites — heightened the outrage of Strack and other tribal representatives.
"The idea that uninformed, untrained children were participating in the excavations, pushing dirt through screens, was unthinkable," Strack said. "That could be the decomposed remains of our ancestors."
By November 2012, three tribes had filed federal complaints.
Even then, they did not file a report with the NAGPRA office.
Instead, McCullough removed the pottery, which is now thought to be a burial vessel. A significant find, it was the first artifact to link an early Great Lakes culture called the Oneota to Central Indiana.
Thursday, August 15, 2024
Ball State University Archaeologists Claim Mounds State Park North Henge is Aligned to the Equinox. - Not
Ball State University Archaeologists Claim Mounds State Park North Henge is Aligned to the Equinox. -
One henge and one earthwork have been found in Ohio that are aligned to the May 1 (Beltane) sunrise. Ball State University Archaeologists claim the North Henge at Mounds State Park is aligned to the Equinox sunrise. Did they not use a compass? In the History of Madison County, Indiana 1888, the north henge (Circle Mound) axis was measured at 67 degrees East. This is not true east, but north of east. This cannot align to the Equinox. 67 degrees is the May 1 (Beltane) sunrise."Circle Mound Early drawings of the Circle Mound show it as long and narrow with rounded corners and curving sides. More recent maps show the enclosure as more rectangular with rounded corners. It measures 285' long and 225' wide. The ditch is about 30' wide and 5-6 feet deep, and the surrounding embankment varies between 4' and 6' in height. The platform is 148' long and 72' wide. The west end of the platform and a small area just to the left of the entrance are higher than the surrounding platform surface. Whether these higher areas represent artificial mounds is not currently known. The gateway is at the east end and the long axis of the enclosure is aligned due east and west. A park trail crosses the central platform and west wall of the enclosure. Two small mounds were situated on either side of the entrance and abutting the embankment. Both of these have been badly reduced in height by plowing as they were at the edge of a cultivated field. These small mounds were about 3feet high and 25 feet wide. The long axis of the enclosure lies on an east to west line. The sun would shine through the gateway and down the central platform at the equinox sunrise (September 21 and March 21). Sunset at these two dates would also fall on a line through the center of the enclosure and the gateway. The enclosure is also constructed in such a way that diagonal alignments through opposite corners mark sunset and sunrise alignments to the winter and summer solstice."
"The sun would shine," you never checked?
Sunday, June 23, 2024
Who Built the Fort Ancient, Ohio Earthwork? Clam Shell Hoes? Give Me a Break.
Who Built the Fort Ancient, Ohio Earthwork? Clam Shell Hoes? Give Me a Break
Fort Ancient Walls Consist of 553,000 Cubic Yards of Earth
20,000 Ton Trucks Lined Up Bumper to Bumper Would Stretch from Fort Ancient to Cleveland
Archaeologists Claim this was achieved with clam hoes. (ridiculous)
Only a few clam hoes uncovered at the Site
Sunday, March 5, 2023
Oldest Burial Mounds in the Midwest in Newaygo County, Michigan Could Date as Early as 3,000 B.C.
Oldest Burial Mounds in the Midwest in Newaygo County, Michigan Could Date as Early as 3,000 B.C.
Tuesday, January 31, 2023
Ancient Skulls from a California and Alabama Shell Mound May be of European Origin According to University Archaeologist
Ancient Skulls from a California and Alabama Shell Mound May be of European Origin According to University Archaeologist
Does the Penon Women's skull prove that the first Americans came from Europe?"
"Scientists from Liverpool's John Moores University and Oxford's Research Laboratory of Archaeology have dated the skull to about 13,000 years old, making it 2,000 years older than the previous record for the continent's oldest human remains.
Wednesday, December 14, 2022
Hamilton County Parks Department Fined for Allowing IPFW Archaeologists to Desecrate and Steal Native American Remains
Hamilton County Parks Department Fined For Allowing IPFW Archaeologists to Desecrate and Steal Native American Remains
Hamilton Parks Department has been fined $6,533 for allowing IPFW archaeologists to grave rob thousands of skeletal fragments from the Strwatown earthworks. The site was likely constructed by the Oto Sioux but was brought to light by the Miami Indians who resided in Indiana in historic times.
Reported in the Indy Star by Chris Sikich, Nov. 13, 2017
Monday, October 31, 2022
Pennsylvania Archaeologist Uncovers Ancient Skeleton 7 feet 5 inches Tall
Pennsylvania Archaeologist Uncovers Ancient Skeleton 7 feet 5 inches Tall
Giant skeletons with double rows of teeth discovered in Minnesota www.nephilimgiants.net : Giant Neanderthal Hybrids With Double Rows of Teeth Discovered in Minnesota
A Pennsylvania archaeologist uncovers forty-nine human giants. The largest giant was 7 1/2 feet in length. State archaeologists scoffed at the findings and theory that the state was once the home of a race of giants that were the builders of the burial mounds and earthworks in the Pennsylvania.
Monday, July 27, 2020
Archaeologists Discover Giant Skeletons Discovered on Georgia's Coast. Skulls Look European
Archaeologists Discover Giant Skeletons on Georgia's Coast. Skulls Look European
Saturday, December 5, 2015
Archaeologists Aren't Wrong About Evolution; Just Stupid.
I was recently corrected on a blog post about my use of the word, "Cro-Magnon." The argument was that the intellectual elite at our universities no longer differentiated Cro-Magnon from modern men, really? The defintiion of Cro-Magnon is,
" An early form of modern human (Homo sapiens) inhabiting Europe in the late
Paleolithic Period, from about 40,000 to 10,000 years ago,characterized by a broad
face and tall stature."
Not a little taller, a lot taller as confessed by, Formicola and Giannecchini's data revealed that "EUP [Early Upper Paleolithic] males are much taller (176.2 cm) and LUP [Late Upper Paleolithic] shorter (165.6 cm), with an average difference of 10.6 cm.
Monday, August 1, 2011
Ancient Giant Humans Found in Burial Mound In Stockton, California
Three of the Largest Human Skeletons on Record Uncovered in Stockton, California
Who were these ancient giants that are found in great numbers in California and the Channel Islands? The answer may surprise you. www.nephilimgiants.net : Ancient Cro-Magnon Giant Race Discovered Off California Coast of Catalina Island

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