The Romantics and occultists place the Native American civilizations as colonies of Atlantis. Native Americans have also been named as descendants of the Egyptians, Phoenicians, Assyrians, East Indians, Polynesians, Prince Madoc, a Welsh that supposedly crossed the Atlantic Ocean in 1170, and a distinct line of monkeys and apes unique to the New World. These apes and monkeys were the supposed descendants of the giant apes, Gigantanthropus and Meganthropus, that were common in southeastern Asia in the early Pleistocene. Commonly, it is believed the indigenous groups of the Americas were the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel.

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