Archaeological Oddities (eBook)

A Field Guide to Forty Claims of Lost Civilizations, Ancient Visitors, and Other Strange Sites in North America

Kenneth L. Feder (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019
260 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-5381-0597-9 (ISBN)

Infos

This book is an offbeat field guide for sites in North America that reflect the rejection of the facts of prehistory and history. They are the physical equivalents of "fake news" about America's ancient past. Feder provides an entertaining summary forty sites along with the practical information you’ll need to visit these fun and fascinating sites.

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Does evidence show that Native Americas residing in Utah a thousand years ago lived among dinosaurs, depicting those creatures in their rock art? Did some of those same ancient Americans also encounter visitors from other planets, painting images of space-suited aliens on canyon walls? Have archaeologists discovered evidence that members of the Lost Tribes of Israel visited ancient America, leaving their mark by engraving the Ten Commandments in Hebrew on rocks in New Mexico? And Ohio? Is there archaeological evidence of ancient Celtic visitors to the New World in the form of messages etched in stone, megalithic monuments, and even the remnants of the villages in which they lived? Are American archaeologists covering up the remains of lost cities deeply ensconced in a secret cave in Arizona and in a subterranean chamber in Missouri? Finally, have archaeologists discovered the far western outpost of an ancient Egyptian pharaoh, not in Egypt or even Africa, but in, of all places, California? Those questions and more are answered by archaeologist Ken Feder in Archaeological Oddities: A Field Guide to Forty Claims of Lost Civilizations, Ancient Visitors, and Other Strange Sites in North Americathat the above listed questions and others addressed in his book represent the equivalent of ';fake news' about America's ancient past. The forty sites he highlights are, in fact, fascinating and fun places to visit. Feder's guide provides an entertaining summary of those forty sites along with the practical information you'll need to visit them. This full-color book includes over 100 fascinating photographs.

Autor

Kenneth L. Feder, professor of anthropology at Central Connecticut State University, specializes in the archaeology of North America. He is author of several books, including Ancient America: Fifty Archaeological Sites to See for Yourself . Feder has appeared on numerous television documentaries on the National Geographic Channel, the BBC's Horizon, the History Channel, the Discovery Channel, and the SyFy Channel and has been featured in episodes of the Canadian-based William Shatner’sWeird or What?

Inhalt

Preface - What I Did on My Summer Vacations (and intersessions, Spring breaks, and too many long weekends to count)Chapter 1- Turn and Face the StrangeChapter 2- Here’s What We KnowThe SitesAncient Visitors: Written Messages1. Crack Cave, Comanche National Grassland, Colorado2. Davenport Tablets, Davenport, Iowa3. Dighton Rock, Berkley, Massachusetts4. Westford Knight, Westford, Massachusetts5. Michigan Relics, Michigan6. Kensington Rune Stone, Alexandria, Minnesota7. Los Lunas Decalogue Stone, Los Lunas, New Mexico8. Newark Holy Stones, Newark, Ohio9. Heavener Rune Stone, Heavener, Oklahoma10. Bat Creek Stone, Loudon County, Tennessee11. Grave Creek Stone, Moundsville, West VirginiaAncient Visitors: Stone Monuments12. Acton Stone Chamber, Acton, Massachusetts13. Upton Stone Chamber, Upton, Massachusetts14. Peach Pond Chamber15. Druid Hill, Lowell, Massachusetts16. Balanced Rock, North Salem, New York17. Newport Tower, Newport Rhode IslandAncient Visitors: Villages18. Gungywamp, Groton, Connecticut19. America’s Stonehenge/Mystery Hill, North Salem, Massachusetts20. L’anse aux Meadow, Newfoundland, CanadaAncient Visitors: Aliens21. Roswell Flying Saucer Crash Site, Roswell, New Mexico22. Serpent Mound, Peebles, Ohio23. Head of Sinbad, San Rafael Swell, Utah24. Sego Canyon, Thompson Springs, UtahLost Civilization25. Tucson Artifacts, Tucson, Arizona26. Grand Canyon Secret Cave, Grand Canyon, Arizona27. Moberly Subterranean City, Moberly, Missouri28. Burrows Cave, IllinoisBiblical Proof?29. The Cardiff Giant, Cooperstown, New York30. Paluxy River Footprints, Glen Rose, Texas31. Black Dragon Pictograph, San Rafael Swell, Utah32. Kachina Bridge Pictograph, Natural Bridges National Monument, UtahNew Age Antiquity33. Palatki Cliff Dwelling, Sedona Arizona34. Honanki Cliff Dwelling, Sedona, ArizonaUnexpected Critter Depiction35. Painted Rock Hairy Man Depictions, Tule Indian Reservation, Porterville, CaliforniaFollies36. Lost Egyptian City, Guadaupe, California37. Carhenge, Alliance, Nebraska38. The Dig, Governor’s Island, New York, New York39. Columcille Megalithic Park, Bangor, Pennsylvania40. Maryhill Stonehenge, Maryhill, Washington State

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.3.2019
• Zusatzinfo: 130 Illustrations including: - 130 Halftones, Color including Color Photographs.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseführer
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Schlagworte: Aliens • Ancient Visitors • archaeology • Debunked Archaeology • Fake Archaeology • lost civilization • North America • Stonehenge • Strange Sites
• ISBN-10: 1-5381-0597-7 / 1538105977
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5381-0597-9 / 9781538105979