American history begins here.
Within 50 air-miles of Tahoe's shores some of the oldest human remains in all of North America were recently unearthed. This means that more than 9000 years ago humans with complex artistic cultures already roamed the Tahoe region.
Chapter 2 (Excerpt)
Spirit Cave Man: Curse of the Ice Age Mummy
Even Hollywood Fright Films can’t match the nearly 10,000-year-old tale of Tahoe’s own true-life Spirit Cave Mummy—or the scientific prophesies of doom which his resurrection unleashed. After all, the Egyptian Mummies Hollywood favors are at best some 3000 years old. But the Tahoe region’s Spirit Cave Mummy is at least three times as old as King Tut, dating from an era when most of Europe still shivered beneath massive ice sheets, at a time when even Babylon and the very earliest Sumerian civilizations of the Fertile Crescent were but a distant dream.
Like most horror stories, this one begins innocently enough. In 1940 a partially-mummified human corpse known as Spirit Cave Man was unearthed in a shallow cave located less than 70 air miles east of Lake Tahoe, near Fallon, Nevada. In the 1970s another partially intact skeleton, this time known as Wizard’s Beach Man, was also recovered—this time well within the range of Tahoe’s own geographic watershed at Pyramid Lake. Together they represent some of the oldest human remains yet found anywhere in North America. American history begins here.
Comments