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This article was originally written for a paranormal magazine called The Paranormal Journal, it became known as The Underground Files covering ghosts, ufos, cryptozoology, and government conspiracies amongst others. I no longer write for the magazine and it is no longer in existence. September 29th 2002, in Morgantown, the man that first advanced the theory markings discovered in a Wyoming County cave are characters from an ancient Irish alphabet, found human remains at the site and tests prevail the bones are European in origin, dating back to A.D. 710, he reveals. Robert Pyle of Morgantown says a DNA analysis of material from the skeleton's teeth roots was conducted by Brigham Young University. Pyle says, the skeleton's DNA, when compared to samples from Native American groups and an array of European sources, most closely matches samples from the British Isles. The DNA test, a radiocarbon one too dates the skeleton to 710, equates the presence of a European visitor to the North American continent nearly 800 years earlier than the arrival of Christopher Columbus, and nearly 300 hundred years before Viking Leif Ericson. Pyle reiterates his earlier findings in the Wyoming Country cave with the hypothesis that the markings “were done by seafaring people, probably monks, probably from the British Isles.” “Based on the available data,” Robert Maslowski says, president of the Council for West Virginia Archeology, a state association of professional archaeologists with research interests in West Virginia, “that's doubtful.” Maslowski says, while interesting, Pyle's suggestions, his findings need to be examined by the professional community. “We would welcome the opportunity to go over the evidence - to look at skeletal material, the archaeological material, the radiocarbon data and the DNA data, then draw our own conclusions,” Maslowski said. Pyle, who performed archaeological surveys for the state Division of Highways in the late 1970s and early 1980s, does not have a archaeological degree. He states he is a federally certified archaeologist who has studied the subject at Northwestern University, and has taken geology at WVU. He agrees he would be interested in another group looking at his work, including additional DNA and carbon-14 testing, which he paid for using privately raised funds totalling around $7, 000. He also wants to raise money to preserve the site and continue his research. He first visited the cave, the Cook petroglyph site, in 1981, while working for the DOH. “I was visiting my sister when someone mentioned some indian scratchings on top of a nearby ridge,” he said and when he arrived at the site, “I saw an elongated group of markings along the right side. I'd just read a book on Norse runes, and my first thought was that these were archaic runes.” He later read about carvings found in Ireland and Wales, usually on the edges of grave markers, that made use of an ancient Celtic alphabet of connected lines and slashes known as Ogam. He was joined by Dr. William Grant of Edinborough University in Scotland and Dr. John Grant of Oakland, Md., both Celtic linguists who had studied at Catholic University in Washington, D.C. Pyle continued to study the Wyoming Country carvings, and similar markings near Dingess in Mingo County and in Manchester, Ky., and eventually came to his conclusion of Ogam petroglyphs. In the 1980s, articles are published in the Wonderful West Virginia, including references to the markings being related to Ogam, they next refuted in 1989, in the West Virginia Archaeologist Magazine, editor Janet Brashler, then an archaeologist for Mononghela National Forest, stated that the 'turkey foot' patterns used in the markings are design elements “in common with other acknowledged prehistoric Native American petroglyphs. While Pyle stands firm that crosses, rebuses and other markings found were unique to Ogam. He even travelled to Ireland to study markings in 1998, and in 2002, having been invited to examine a newly found 8 ft high, 20 ft long Irish Ogam panel, these closely resembling the Wyoming County cave carvings. Pyle expected his claims to generate controversy. “That's science,” he says, “No one totally, 100 percent endorses a new idea... I'll let science decide where to go from here. But I would like to have credit for this discovery.” Maslowski's contention to this... “We know the vikings were here before him, but I wouldn't stop celebrating Columbus Day, yet. Hopefully, we'll be able to go over the findings and have this resolved by the end of October - West Virginia Archaeology Month.” Pyle plans to have his findings posted on the Internet at http://www.prehistoricplanet.com/wv/, as the site contains material on Ogam and the West Virginia petroglyphs. The Irish Got There First written by Bill Barber. |
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