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GordonP wrote: A friend of mine can tell you a lot about American megaliths. See www.Bigstones.com. Rob has also written a book about stone circles though it may now only be available through his website.
It is becoming increasingly accepted that people of European stock were in America long before the native Indians entered via the Bering Straits. Although no one seems willing to go on record and state this as a fact.
Because it's not a fact, it's a theory based on too little evidence.
There is no denying that there were adventurers in the distant past who surpassed our rather insultingly limited notions about how human beings got around then. And it's entirely possible that there were Phoenicians and so on making very limited appearances here. There's a book out that makes a strong claim that the Micmac Indians of the Northeast encountered (and borrowed) Chinese culture.
But to say that Europeans were in America 'long before the natives entered via the Bering Straits' is a pretty tall claim. Not to mention that it's often used, of course, as grounds by some to affirm a dominant white 'manifest destiny'.
And of course, there's cultural bias in seeing megaliths as being 'European', just like the arrogant idea some have that the Mayans must have got their idea to build pyramids from the Egyptians (as if somehow basic geometry escaped all other cultures!).
Like in England, many sites were destroyed by Xtians... stones taken for buildings and such. Those that remain in the northeast are rare, but some still survive.
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