Ohio Archaeology Society Symposium
ASO
Ancient Artifact Preservation Foundation Conference, Oct 23-26, 2008,
Holiday Inn, Marquette, MI. Contact:
J Johnson
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Early Trans-Atlantic Contact Symposium
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A Night at the Local Museum
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What's New?
August Quarter Meeting Changed to Aug 9, 2008
Picnic to be at Hocking Hill's Rock House
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... from the Latest Journal
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The Midwestern Epigraphic Society researchs the ancient migrations of mankind
to the Americas, especially Pre-Columbian and particularly to the Midwest US,
as revealed by cultural similarities, archaic writing, ancient world history and
evidence found by modern science.
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In the News
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6 of the 10 Discoveries of 2007
[Reported in Archaeology magazine]. Thirteen stone towers at
Chankillo Peru proved to be a Solar Observatory - one of the oldest in the Americas.
Michael Waters & Thomas Stafford narrowed the Clovis period to a disputed
250 years (13,050-12,800) - too brief to have spread across the Americas. A
theory arose to explain this Clovis culture disappearance - an exploding comet which
conveniently also explains the extinction of the mammoth and the onset of the
global cooling event called the Younger Dryas.
Archaeologists stumble upon a 2,000-year-old Iron Age henge that
inconveniently halted construction of the M3 around Dublin Ireland.
Scientists completed a 10-year mapping project of Cambodia's Anghor which yielded clues suggesting the sprawling metropolis could
have collapsed under overpopulation and deforestation. Radiocarbon dating
and DNA analysis of a chicken bone from a site in Chile suggests Polynesians brought chickens
to the west coast of South America well before Columbus.
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The cover of the new MES Journal
honors local artist member William Edward Turner (1916-1999)
Inside are more art examples with more to come in future issues.
There are several articles about
Dr Charles F Herberger of Centerville MA who identified and decoded the ancient Minoan Calander and
Dr Ivan G Van Sertima who brought light upon Africans in the Americas before Columbus. Both
received the MES Barry Fell Award in 2006.
Noted historian Dr Cyclone Covey provides us with an article on
Olmec Beards citing the late Lawrence Athy's work at Comalcalco and
Velikovsky's 284 Theses about the controversal "reinterpreter" of ancient historical
America.
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