by Jim Leslie, Originally published in The Midwestern Epigraphic Journal BEFORE COLUMBUS, by Dr. Samuel Marble, 1980, A.S. Barnes and Co., Inc., Cranbury, NJ 08512 and Thomas Yoseloff Ltd, Magdalen House, 136-148 Tooley Street, London SE1 2TT, England, ISBN 0-498-02370-2. The subtitle is “The New History of Celtic, Egyptian, Phoenician, Viking, Black African, and Asian Read More
by Carl A. Bjork. Originally published in Ancient American Magazine Issue #45 Southern California’s “Painted Rock” is among the relatively few surviving examples of ancient pictoglyphs created by the Chumash people before their extinction through contact with diseases contracted in the early 17th Century. Respected even by the rapacious Spaniards as “civilized Indians,” Read More
http://westfordknight.blogspot.com By David S. Brody Little did I realize how a random 2006 conversation with my elementary-school daughter would change my life. “Daddy, who discovered America?” she asked. Suspecting she was learning about the Vikings in school, I played along. “Christopher Columbus,” I answered. “Wrong!” she said. “It was Prince Henry Sinclair from Scotland. Read More
Columbus Was Last An Introduction to the Ancient History of America Written By Lawrence Gallant Posted by Rick Osmon The excavations at Meadowcroft rock shelter by Professor James Adovasio on July 13, 1974, then of the University of Pittsburgh, proved that an ancient culture lived in southwestern Pennsylvania in at least 14,000 BC, some 5,000 Read More
I have identified the so-called “foundation structure” of the Newport Grant House as a lime kiln on the basis of two vents in the north and south sections that nobody else has seemed to notice. It was the opinion of historian James Isham (1895) that the Old Stone Tower had to be a Colonial windmill Read More
Early New World Maps by Dr. Gunnar Thompson Early Maps of the New World The persistent academic argument concerning early voyages to the New World ends with an examination of the cartographic evidence. Maps that have been preserved in the collections of such distinguished archives as the Louvre (in Paris), the British Museum, and Read More
Robert J. Wallis Richmond University, the American International University in London, London TW10 6JP, UK; wallisr@richmond.ac.uk Received: 15 December 2018; Accepted: 8 January 2019; Published: 16 January 2019 updates Abstract: Art and shamanism are often represented as timeless, universal features of human experience, with an apparently immutable relationship. Shamanism is frequently held to represent the Read More
By, Harry Bourne bsooty1@aol.com Did They? In a series of papers, it has been my intention to attempt to demonstrate that our ancestors were rather more in maritime contact across the world than is generally accepted, especially in academic circles. These papers tend to concentrate on the African aspects of this and they include both Read More