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Some controversial archaeoastronomy from Colorado Colorado

Submitted by Andy B on Saturday, 13 December 2003  Page Views: 5785

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Scott Monahan writes: I've just completed a newly posted video, which is an extract from my TV documentary, History on the Rocks. It shows the Equinox sunrise at SE Colorado's Crack Cave and sunset at the Anubis Cave in the Oklahoma Panhandle with related Ogham and Libyan inscriptions suggest Old World sailors made it to America long before Columbus or Leif Ericson.

It's embedded into http://www.archaeoastronomy.com/video.html, or the actual address of the video file --- which a user can access by
manually typing in the URL on a QuickTime 6 player --- is
http://on.anten.net/r/introcks.mp4
which then permits you to double the display size up to 640 x
480 pixels at 15 frames per second. The 2 minute 30 second movie looks
good even when blown up to that size, perhaps even yielding better
detail of the rock inscriptions.

The MPEG-4 compression is just remarkable compared to past CODECs...so
you see and hear much better quality than was possible just a year ago
in a similarly compact download. An even better MPEG-4 CODEC, H264, is
coming out soon, that should enhance compressibility even more.

Let me know what you think. Life's interesting over here, though cold.

Scott Monahan
TransVision
[email protected]
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Re: Some controversial archaeoastronomy from Colorado by Anonymous on Tuesday, 09 June 2015
I have been conducting my own research into pre Columbus exploration of the Americas and I have some interesting findings that may interest you. Please contact me at [email protected] for more information. I have connected archaeology sites from coast to coast in the continental U.S. to the Middle East, Eurasia, Mediterranean cultures, Europeans and East/South East Asia. And as a Colorado native I am very interested in collaborating with you.
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Portal Site Listing for Crack Cave by bat400 on Monday, 10 September 2007
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The Portal listing can be found here.

Crack cave is only one of several petroglyph sites in Picture Canyon, Colorado. Although the gylphs in the "cave" can only be seen when a ranger unlocks the gate, other rock art can be seen year round.
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Re: Some controversial archaeoastronomy from Colorado by ScottM on Friday, 30 January 2004
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As author of the "controversial" video, I must share with all viewers that criticism, particularly from academic institutionalists, especially archaeologists, is the rule, not the exception. I have respect for the University of Leicester and Clive Ruggles. And I don't expect my 2.5 minute introductory video, shrunken to conform with the web's bandwidth limitations, to change the world or win academic converts on its own merits. It's designed to whet their interest, not to attract knee-jerk dismissals. But I would invite Alun Salt, the critic from Leicester's School of Archaeology and Ancient History, to see the entire one hour video plus the studio debate regarding the findings, or better yet, come to America and witness the events in person before condemning these findings as worthless fantasy. I assure you the evidence is convincing. Experts I have interviewed since the shooting in 1985 have validated these unique phenomena. Books have been and continue to be published about these rock writings and alignments. And while I cannot say with certainty they are Celtic Ogham or Libyan or old Arabic (and no one expects you to certify them as such from the downsized QuickTime sampler you saw) there is plenty of detailed documentation associated with the highlighted inscriptions and many others, some of which can be gleaned from the full hour presentation.

There is inevitably strong resistance from guardians of the status quo. In America, young by European standards, we are indoctrinated from grade school with the lesson that "in 1492, Columbus sailed the Ocean Blue". Anyone who suggests a written historical record dating back before Columbus is generally regarded as a nut case. Well, time and evidence will tell. But the evidence needs to be examined in an open and unbiased manner. Experts from afar who have no intention of even examining evidence that could rock their world find it most convenient to dismiss it with scorn. That is sad. Shouldn't we have basic intellectual curiosity? Aren't we open to new ideas while preserving the historical record? And it takes years to change perspectives. Isn't this the struggle discovery manifests. I welcome challenge, but I will not accept shallow dismissiveness. What you may have seen in my video is by no means everything. Those who instinctively are prone to reject new ideas owe it to themselves to see the inscriptions, to digest the epigraphic work, and to consider the rarity of the equinox alignment in context. Consider the parallax. Consider 35 feet from cave mouth to rock knob. These are not coincidental or superficial markings. These are worthy of serious investigation.

Might I suggest, as a start, reading "Ancient Celtic America" by William McGlone and Phillip Leonard, ISBN 0-914330-90-X Let's not be so quick to say NO WAY.
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Re: Some controversial archaeoastronomy from Colorado by Alun on Saturday, 13 December 2003
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This isn’t written from bitchiness but sheer confusion.

Out of many rock faces in America with millions of weathered grooves you can pick out some which may make a few glyphs. The identification of the glyphs is so bad you can’t tell if they’re Oggham or Libyan. Near to it you have something which can, with some effort be matched to one of the many thousands of glyphs known, because it looks like an Egyptian symbol. There’s many hundreds of miles and many hundreds of years between the three cultures which have been pulled together to fit the ‘evidence’. And the message is in a mess of the three.

My question then isn’t whether or not there’s anything in it. It’s ‘What part of this do people find even vaguely convincing?’ If I found some scratches which looked modern Japanese symbols in one of the many prehistoric tombs in the UK, and used them to propose that many of these tombs were built by Honda, would there be really people who’d say ‘Hmm, it sounds a bit far fetched, but there might be something in it.’?

I’d appreciate an answer as it would help me massively with my own writing if I knew what people did find convincing.
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    Re: Some controversial archaeoastronomy from Colorado by Thorgrim on Saturday, 13 December 2003
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    There is no absolute answer to your question. Some people will believe anything, others nothing. It is always posssible to see inscriptions, faces and animals in rocks just as you can by staring into the fire. My trouble is that I am extremely skeptical about astronomical alignments in general. The midsummer sun rises over my neighbour's summerhouse finial, but is that significant?
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