Great And Never Explained Mysteries Of Nevada’s History

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Nevada is full of archaeological and anthropological discoveries - antiquities, no one is able to explain.

One of these shocking discoveries gives us evidence that man existed in Nevada more than 200 million years ago.

In his famous book " The Hidden History of the Human Race", Michael Cremo writes:

"On October 8, 1922, the American Weekly section of the New York Sunday American ran a prominent feature titled "Mystery of the Petrified 'Shoe Sole' 5,000,000 Years Old," by Dr. W. H. Ballou. Ballou wrote:

"Some time ago, while he was prospecting for fossils in Nevada, John T. Reid, a distinguished mining engineer and geologist, stopped suddenly and looked down in utter bewilderment and amazement at a rock near his feet. For there, a part of the rock itself, was what seemed to be a human footprint! Closer inspection showed that it was not a mark of a naked foot, but was, apparently, a shoe sole which had been turned into stone. The forepart was missing. But there was the outline of at least twothirds of it, and around this outline ran a well-defined sewn thread which had, it appeared, attached the welt to the sole.

Further on was another line of sewing, and in the center, where the foot would have rested had the object been really a shoe sole, there was an indentation, exactly such as would have been made by the bone of the heel rubbing upon and wearing down the material of which the sole had been made. Thus was found a fossil which is the foremost mystery of science today. For the rock in which it was found is at least 5,000,000 years old."

Reid brought the specimen to New York, where he tried to bring it to the attention of other scientists...

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