By Douglas Hunter
In this attention-grabbing tale wealthy in personalities and noteworthy characters, Douglas Hunter makes use of Dighton Rock to bare the lengthy, advanced historical past of colonization, American archaeology, and the conceptualization of Indigenous humans. Hunter argues that misinterpretations of the rock's markings proportion universal motivations and feature erased Indigenous humans not just from their very own background yet from the panorama. He indicates how Dighton Rock for hundreds of years drove principles in regards to the unique peopling of the Americas, together with Bering Strait migration eventualities and the identification of the "Mound Builders." He argues the debates over Dighton Rock have served to reply to questions: Who belongs in the US, and to whom does the United States belong?
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