282RA:

Okay: the Sitchin.com article starts off with an ignorant assertion that the Olmec heads are depictions of 'black Africans'. This person claims to have visited South America several times, but has apparently never looked at any of the native people, quite a few of whom bear similar features to those portrayed on the artistically exaggerated sculptural faces. Full lips and short noses are not restricted to one part of the world.

He talks about the wheeled toys, and anyone familiar on the lightest level with SA archaeology knows about those toys, and there are some likely reasons why the wheel was not further put to use by cultures there - no one says 'they didn't invent the wheel'.

The little 'elephant' artifact, which he says was in the museum and subsequently disappeared may have been removed because it was found to be a modern pot. Or, given the artistic style, it might be a representation of a shrew or other rodent. Shrews have long noses and some have big ears.

The JSTOR article, I can only read the first page, but that says the first medal had a date, 1486, engraved on it - so the First nations people were also using arabic numerals to date their art at the time?

As for the article defending Barry Fell - see here, and with actual site photographs:

http://cwva.org/ogam_rebutal/wirtz.html

And here, for the Nova Scotia connection, where Barry Fell 'interpreted' a rock inscription almost certainly made by a known local with a joking nature :

http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-58545665.html

Your next post, linking to the Dighton rock: there's not much mystery as to its origins. Come to Kedgi in Nova Scotia and we could show you tons of First Nations petroglyphs, along with the added graffitti of the French, the English, and anyone else who passed this way.

The Long Head Indians, as other tribes in other parts of the world, achieved the look by binding or flattening with boards the heads of their babies. When they stopped doing that, they became round heads.

Sorry, I'm in a debunking state of mind. I like mysteries, but I like them not to have been misrepresented. The West Virginia marks are very interesting - I'd like to know what they really are.