Articles

Review of : BEFORE COLUMBUS : The New History of Celtic, Egyptian, Phoenician, Viking, Black African And Asian Contacts and Impacts in the Americas Before 1492 By Dr. Samuel D. Marble

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

An Ancient “Boat” in Native American Rock Art?

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

Columbus: Late to the North American Party

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

Ancient Lime Kiln found at Newport, RI

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

 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

Art and Shamanism From Cave Painting to the White Cube

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

Africans, Maps & Charts

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