This program starts with racist assumptions and tries to prove them.
Looking into unusual artifacts in North America? Great. Brining attention to little known North American history? Great.
This guy starts with the premise that everything in North America must be from Europeans. Nothing can't be from sophisticated culture *other than* Europe according to Scott Wolter. Mr. Wolter's stretches of the imagination and travels to prove to himself that artifacts are either A) it's not recent graffiti or B) it's impossible that Native Americans could do anything.
Obviously, this displays a sheer bias.
Native American society was far, far, less primitive as believed by Mr. Wolter who seeks to make it as dumb and simple as possible. North America was a complex of many societies with sophisticated culture. Apparently he's never read of Cahokia. Cahokia was a massive center of trade of *millions* within North America. Like the South American cities, it rivaled many European cities in sophistication.
The words 'apparently' and 'presumably' are out of his language. Please: take things with a grain of salt— metric or otherwise. He even refuses to believe a tall person could be from anywhere other than northern Europe. Tall guy? Must be a giant— and… from Scandinavia.
He just ends every statement where he's told he's wrong with "but what if [Europeans or Egyptians] made their way to North America? Would that not be important?"
Yes, Scott. It would. No one if denying that. What they deny is that Europeans did everything way before anyone else. And if not, you'll find scratch marks to prove it.
But you cajoling around thinking anything and everything is a sign of white dudes in North America before Columbus isn't proving anything. Other than maybe you see some graffiti that looks like Location X in Europe so you will travel on the company's dime there for a holiday. And you assume that Europeans did everything from scratches on rocks to rock structures in New England.
I could make the same argument that if X really did prove Y that no one believe it would be a great discovery. Unfortunately for Mr. Wolter and well everyone else without evidence that idea is at best fantasy.
We already know Norse people made their way to North America before Columbus (look it up!) and Basque people had a fishing empire in North America before Columbus (look it up!). And Cahokia was a thriving metropolis without white people and before Columbus (look it up!).
This is not conspiracy. This is cool.
We know there was just one of many massive cities in the are called St Louis which was a beacon of trade before Columbia and was a sophisticated society (look it up!).
How fun is that? "This history we were taught is wrong?" Yes. But don't just make it up. There's no need to see scratches as proof that some white guy was here before. That's called belief in racist superiority. There are so many interesting things that dedicated scientists, anthropologists, and researchers are only scratching the surface of. Things that we will know and will know soon as real evidence surfaces. Things that unlike Mr. Wolter's 'evidence' paint a fascinating picture of North America. So fascinating we don't need made up fantasy.
No reason to fabricate a "white guy with the holy grail and secret knowledge" quest for everything. There's already unknown stories of (non-white, and some white) people that are, well, pretty cool. Best part is you don't need to highlight scratches in a cave to prove it— as it's true. And interesting.
Again: look up Cahokia.