Unearthing Ancient America: The Lost Sagas of Conquerors, Castaways, and Scoundrels

Introduction: Welcome to the New History! 11 Chapter 1 Anomalous Artifacts 13 An Ancient Egyptian Statuette Found in Illinois Wayne May 13 Medallion Puts Buddhists in Michigan a Thousand Years Ago Frank Joseph 24 Ancient Michigan's Solar Eclipse Tablet David Allen Deal 31 Chapter 2 Messages From the Past 39 Minnesota's Viking Runestone Is Authenticated Lloyd Hornbostel, Jr. 40 The Lost Inscription of Grave Creek Wayne May 45 The Grave Creek Tablet Is Genuine Ida Jane Meadows Gallagher 50 The Crespi Collection: Archaeological Fraud or Prehistoric Library? Dr. Warren Cook 54 Chapter 3 Strange Structures 75 Connecticut's Fifth-Century Church John Gallagher 75 Florida's Stonehenge? James P. Grimes 84 Dighton Rock: The Ancient Enigma of Massachusetts John Gallagher 90 Chapter 4 Subterranean Mysteries 95 The Money Pit Kassandra Dycke 96 Find or Fraud of the Century? Philip Coppens 103 An Achievement to Rival the Pyramids Fred C. Rydholm 114 Underground City of the Grand Canyon Frank Joseph 123 Inscrutable Metallic Tablets of the Rockies Jared G. Barton 132 Chapter 5 Underwater Discoveries 141 A Roman-Era Figurine Recovered Off New Jersey Lloyd Hornbostel, Jr. 141 Has the Lost Motherland of the Pacific Been Found? An Interview With Masaaki Kimura 144 Bimini: The "Road" to Discovery William Donato 148 A Rock Lake Time Line Frank Joseph 158 The Crystal Pyramid of Wisconsin's Rock Lake Frank Joseph 161 The Great Triangles of Rock Lake and Aztalan Frank Joseph 167 Chapter 6 Enigmatic Effigies 177 The Hideous Spider Pipe of Prehistoric Tennessee Wayne May 177 Pre-Columbian Hebrews in Michigan Dr. John White 182 The Serpent and the Meteor Frank Joseph 183 Giants of the CaliforniaDesert Lloyd Hornbostel, Jr. 191 Chapter 7 Lost Kingdoms 197 Found: The Pre-Inca City of Gran Saposoa Earl Koenig 197 The Rise and Fall of Prehistoric America David Hoffman 199 Utah's Nameless City of the Clouds Wayne May 202 Chapter 8 Forgotten Seamanship 207 Did a Sunstone Guide the Vikings to America? Earl Koenig 207 Sweden's Iron Age Monument to Transatlantic Voyages Reinoud de Jonge Jay Stuart Wakefield 211 An Old Map and Some Chicken Bones Terrify Archaeologists John Gallagher 222 The Pre-Columbian Connection: Ancient Transatlantic Ships James P. Grimes 225 How the Portuguese Out-Foxed Columbus Dr. Gunnar Thompson 234 Chapter 9 Bones, Skulls, and DNA Rewrite History 245 Inca Skeleton Unearthed in Scandinavia Earl Koenig 245 Genetics Rewrite Pacific Prehistory Peter Marsh 247 Ancient American Coneheads David Hatcher Childress 254 Who Were the First Americans? Frank Joseph 265 Bibliography 271 Index 281 About the Author 287