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East Africans & Ancient Navigation

Post author By Ancient America
Categories | Africa, Bay of Biscay, Brazil, Bronze Age, Canaan, Canarian Currents, Cape Bojador, Carthaginian, Celts of Gaul, Cheng Ho, Chinese, Crete, Cyprus, Egypt, Eritrea, Erythraean Sea, Eskimo, Ethiopia, Galicia, Gate of Tears, Greek, Gulf of Aden, Iberia, India, Indian Ocean, Inuit, Lake Tana, Lake Titicaca, Lothal, Mandeb Straits, Mediterranean, Mesoamerica, Mohammed, Mtepe, North Equatorial Currents, oars, paddles, Peru, Pharoah Khasekhemy, Pharoah Necho, Phoenico, Punics, Punt, Rafts, Ras Shamra, Red Sea, Reed boats, sails, Skin-boats, Spain, Ugarit, West Mexico, Yucatan, Zheng He
Post date | July 2, 2015

EAST AFRICANS & ANCIENT NAVIGATION by Harry Bourne bsooty1@aol.com Why It Could Not Be In a series of papers, this writer has proposed that our ancestors were very much more in touch by sea than is usually accepted by most maritime historians. Doubts about this lead us into something seen in many other of Read More

Tags East Africa seafaring, Mtepe, reed boats, skin-boats

Homer, facts or fiction?

Post author By RickOsmon
Categories | Aegean Sea, Alkinoos, Atlantic Coast, Bronze Age, Cadiz, Canaries, Caribbean, homer, Ithaka, Lanzarote, Mediterranean Sea, Phaeacians, Troy
Post date | June 17, 2015

Homer, facts or fiction? By N.R. De Graaf, The Netherlands About the naval base of the Faeakes June 2015 In 1879 mr Cailleux, a Frenchman, advanced the idea that the histories told by Homer had been enacted in the Atlantic zone of Europe. This was some decade after Schliemann told the Read More

Tags ancient, bronze age, history, homer, N.R. De Graaf

Were Prehistoric Copper Oxhide Ingots manufactured on the Mississippi coast near the mouth of the Mississippi River?

Post author By Ancient America
Categories | ash, Bronze Age, Cedarland, Claiborne, Coper Mining, Copper, Copper Culture, Egyptian, Great Lakes, Ingots, Isle Royale, Keweenaw Peninsula, Lake Superior, Louisiana, Michigan, Minoan, Mississippi River, Mounds, Oxhide, Oxhides, Poverty Point, Sault Ste Marie, Waubansee Stone
Post date | February 28, 2015

By, Jay S.Wakefield, jswakefield@comcast.net Copper: According to American Indian oral tradition, Michigan copper was mined in antiquity by “red haired white-skinned ‘marine men’ who came from across the sea”. Tens of thousands of pits, up to 30’ deep, were mined using fire-setting and stone hammers, with an estimated half a billion tons of pure Read More

Tags copper, copper culture, Ingots, isle royale, Keweenaw Peninsula, Oxhides

Poverty Point, The Manufacturing of Copper Oxhides for the Atlantic Copper Trade

Post author By Ancient America
Categories | Atlanteans, Atlantis, Bronze Age, Copper Oxhides, Earthworks, Egyptians, Five Nation's, Iroquois, Knossos, Late Archaic, Louisiana, Macon Ridge, Megalithic Culture, Minoan, Mississippi River, moundbuilding, Olmec, Oxhides, Phoenicians, Poverty Point, Ramses III, Sea Peoples, The American Museum of Natural History, Uluburun Shipwreck
Post date | January 14, 2015

Bronze Age Town & Gulf Ports on the Copper Trail Open-fire manufacturing of Copper Oxhides (NE Louisiana, & Mississippi c.2000-700 BC) J.S. Wakefield, jayswakefield@yahoo.com Photos coming soon, apologies from AA staff. Summary The “Late Archaic” Poverty Point earthworks in Louisiana are the earliest and largest monuments in prehistoric North America. The site Read More

Tags bronze age, copper, copper culture, Oxhides, Poverty Point

Composition Analysis of Michigan Copper

Post author By Ancient America
Categories | Aztalan, Bronze Age, Copper, Copper Culture, float copper, ingot, Isle Royale, Keweenaw Peninsula, Lake Lahontan, Lake Superior, London’s British Museum, Lovelock Cave, melting, Nevada, oxhide molds, petroglyph, smelting, Uluburun Ingots
Post date | December 9, 2014

Michigan Copper in the Mediterranean, The Shipping of Michigan Copper across the Atlantic in the Bronze Age (Isle Royale and Keweenaw Peninsula, c. 2400BC-1200 BC) J.S. Wakefield, jayswakefield@yahoo.com Photos coming soon for the article. Apologies from the AA staff. Summary Recent scientific literature has come to the conclusion that the major source Read More

Tags copper, ingot, smelted

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