A skeleton
estimated as being 10,000 years old was found in the ‘tomb
of Palli Aike’ in Tierra del Fuego in 1969-70 and has been
identified as Cro-Magnon, which indicates that this race also
spread to South America. Muck considers Neanderthal man as the
proto-European, and Cro-Magnon a later arrival, probably from
the west. He also sees the Cro-Magnons as bearing many similarities
to the North American Indians, being tall, muscular, athletic
and agile.
Muck produced
an illustration of three skeletons to prove his point (see figure
21). European Neandeerthals, he tells us, were plump, strong-boned
‘pygmies’ averaging less than 5 fee 3 inches (1.6
metres) in height; the dwarfs and troglodytes of old European
folklore. The Cro-Magnons, on the other hand, averaged 6 feet
7 inches (2 metres), which could well have given rise to the
‘giants’ referred to in Classical and biblical texts.
Not all scientists agree with Muck’s measurements, but
there is greater accord on the conclusion that the Neandeerthal
and Cro-Magnon races existed side by side at some time in the
distant past.
From Atlantis
– Myth or Reality by Murry Hope
