Let's start at the top, Vince:
"3. Ed's opinion of "frauds" is based on no factual evidence."
Several of the moderators here have read my expose of the entire ring's operations. For those who haven't, here's Rick Flavin reporting on that small part of it, as much as you want:
http://www.flavinscorner.com/twist.htmAnd yeah, its all true, I re-checked it myself. And no one can accuse Rick of having an anti-diffusionist bias.
Do you know where John Moss died, Vince? For that matter, the chemist who moved between the US and British Columbia is also of interest.
So, Vince, did Burrows plunder a site, or did he manufacture fake Indian artifacts? The first should fall under NAGPRA, the second under the Crafts act (I hope). Then of course there's the matters of the Slack Farm looting, and the outright commercial frauds, should anyone care to bring civil suits.
"1. Norse - Algonquian cognates were covered by Sherwin."
Cognates can be illusory, Vince, particularly for those who want to see them.
There's no artifacts showing any early links. Getting down to it, the idea that superior Aryan Norse educated the ignorant Algonquin is racist in the extreme.
And as a matter of fact, when the Europeans showed up around 350 CE, the Three Fires took off for the west.
"2. Read the copper trade routes in Lori's Presentation on page 2, then see poverty point, Wulfing plates, copper plates, etc."
The source Lori used for her presentation did not even know of Copper Hill Tennessee copper, Vince.
Poverty Point copper most likely came from there, along with other minerals.
Yes, the Mississippian peoples valued copper plates. Besides Spiro, you can see that massively at Etowah, near to Copper Hill, Tennesee.
But mixing real artifacts with Burrows' frauds does no good, for if there was a massive copper trade from Lake Superior down the Mississippi River the Natchez tradition keepers would have remembered it, Vince, and they did not.
"4. Geological Caves in southern Illinois were far more common that Ed would have us know."
Has anybody seen any of the specific caves you mentioned except for you, Vince? Even if they have, that's a long way from showing that they were ancestor shrines. And an even further distance from Burrows' entirely imaginary cave.
"5. Welch Butterfly is authentic. And someone will probably take another close look at the cast of the relic and prove its importance as a colonial Mayan engraving, just as I have done."
I doubt your opinion on that. My guess is that the inscribing tools were in English units. Further, the tool marks left by metal versus stone tools are distinctly different. If you have any expertise in this area you have not mentioned it to us.
And by the way, the classic Maya emerge about 4,000 years after the 4,300 BC date you cited for the Welch Butterfly.
"6. Hudson's map is far from complete. Did De Soto have a GPS device, Ed?"
Personally, Vince, I have not heard of a major Mississippian complex at Harrisburg. The Bison skulls at Casqui indicate either Vincennes or Kaskaskia for its location, both of which are on their migration route.
But then you have to show how your proposed route matches the known itineraries, and further a site for Pacaha, with El Dorado (Cahokia) to the west.
If Kaskaskia was Casqui, as you posit, then El Dorado could not have been Cahokia, as you also posit. The itineraries rule it out.
"7. Ignoring evidence seems to be the trend here, and as this thread has devolved into No-its-not, Yes-it-is, We should leave it at that."
I'm sorry, Vince, but we can't leave it at that, as Burrows et al committed one crime or the other, and from all indications several other civil crimes as well, including misrepresenting military service. Leaving out the Slack Farm looting entirely.
Yes, ignoring evidence that contradicts your hypothesis is something that you do well. Like ignoring all radiocarbon data, all stratigraphic data, and the sequence at the Modoc Rock Shelter, just down river from Cahokia.
Now why does Modoc Rock Shelter culture resemble Old Copper Culture, Vince, but there's no copper and no copper tools? This is completely unlike the Andaste copper trade routes to the east, where copper and copper tools abound.
Try because Modoc was early Glacial Kame culture, and there was nearly no copper trade down the Mississippi River from Lake Superior until after ca. 1,000 BCE, and most of that stopped a short time later. The "Oneota" showed up, you see.
