The name Altamora shows up in some very odd places. It is the name of a town in the Azores. It is a name for a village in Portugal. It is connected with...
Reply to William Smith, re. Columbus: I have a copy of the 1942 book about Columbus "Admiral of the Ocean Sea" by admiral Samuel E. Morrison. The book covers...
Hi Bill  Thanks for the info and offer for a book about Columbus. I am not to interested in Columbus history because he never set foot on USA mainland in his...
Henry the navigator was born in 1394 and died in 1460, He was the highest in command of the Knights of Christ. Christopher Columbus was born in 1451 and died...
In Adams county Ohio on top of a ridge just north of the Ohio River near Manchester is a small stone rock pile which may at one time been a smelting furnace at...
-- That snake probably had a similar shock .... you were biggest rock-mover he ever saw ... We keep talking about these triangular holes; I have never seen...
Hi Cal After I take the archaeoligest to the triangle stone hole in Ohio to assure all material in the hole is properly collected in order to date the...
Thank you. I am trying to recall one of the pioneers in this area, he built himself a little airplane. He wrote a book on this subject. I have heard him...
Cal  I think the person you are talking about is Marion Dahm. After he passed most of his serious field work was picked up by Steve Hilgren. Steves web site...
There is some evidence of "prehistoric" (meaning before the white man) iron smelting in Ohio. Since the Indians occupying the area at the time of the white man...
A group of Europeans in about 50 BC seem to have arrived on American shores with metal working knowledge. The evidence that supports this is shakey, however it...
William Smith: Yes I also wish you had a camera with you when you found that rock pile.   I have found small amounts of bog ore at Spruce Hill in...
William Conner  I have read much of your great work. I was most impressed when you found the casting of the ax. I think you and Wayne May were going to look...
This is from Larry Furo of N. Minnesota who is a member of AWS member Bob Wheeler's petroglyph conservancy group about greedy, senseless, wanton, and total...
I guess the good thing is that there must be a market for these things. Guys that like it but, for whatever reason, cannot take a trip out into Death Vally. ...
They have been doing this rock cutting and thievery for years in the Southwest, and I am sure there are a lot of rich people with this stolen art built into...
Hi Ted  Very good post on stolen artifacts. This type of greed makes it very hard for true researchers. It makes it very difficult to go public with...
Once a year a local archeologist would have a ID day for artifacts people find on their farms at the area Mall. Collectors came to exhibit their stuff, in a...
New World Vikings http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/11/20/a-twist-in-time/ <http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/11/20/a-twist-in-time/> I appreciate Maclean's interest in...
Hello Patricia, I am one of the moderators of the site and want you to know that this is not a peer review group. Most of us are amateurs and not qualified...
I was quite frightened to see this incident when it hit the news. It struck quite close to the same arena of petroglyphs as The Equinox Project site. The type...
The intransigence of professional archaeologists on the subject of pre-Columbian Old World contact with North America is a tired and worn out story here in the...
All, Chris, thank you for posting and updating us on The Equinox Project, and your thoughts and concerns in regard to the recent article Ted Sojka posted re:...
Almost five years following your question about the 'll Jan-Mar,1913 article in American Anthropologist: "Petroglyphs Representing the Imprint of the Human...
Very interesting: That area, the falls, in 1711 the Crown tried to push the frontier westward. From England, about six hundred Huguenot refugees in three...
-- As for Viking presence in the Americas, I suggest we have hardly started that history. One of my pet subjects is Chincoteague Pony. My thesis is that pony...
My hometown of New Rochelle was settled by Hugenots who were excellent masons that built chruches, stone steeples, and some amazing roads across tidal areas...
In the Internet select IMAGES enter --- Giant Skeletons Found. Cal ... All, Chris, thank you for posting and updating us on The Equinox Project, and your...
