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We appreciate such a lengthy review, and your interest in the 3-Rivers map petroglyph in the Catskill Mountains of New York. The book also contains important European petroglyphs, such as those of Kercado (Brittany) and Chao Redondo (Portugal) which are also easily shown to be maps. The mathematical decipherments, such as the pictographic writing at Loughcrew (Ireland), or the Jacob’s Staffs at Dissignac (Brittany), are complex, and hopefully will receive study by others.
Stone counting and site design have shown us that latitudes are encoded in megalithic monuments, but not longitudes, though distances in all directions were encoded by a standard unit of measure. The Timeline of oceanic discoveries we present, and the dating we use, are based upon enough accepted carbon-dated sites to substantiate the Timeline. The book presents these sites in chronological order, which span the Megalithic Period, so of course range from pre-literate to literate. It is hard for any of us to understand the spans of time involved.
The items we use from Fell and Trento are a stone tablet and a bronze jug, not especially refutable, particularly by the book Manitou, a book focused on a different subject, and containing unusual internal contradictions. We do not claim this new material is easy to grasp or accept, though we have taken four years to present it as simply and graphically as possible. We are aware the book is not a quick read, though the graphics may at first make it appear to be. We thought it would be pointless to just report surprising findings without the data from the rocks and glyphs which produce these results. Unless, of course, one does not want to be confused by the facts, because they challenge what you believe or commonly held perceptions.
Is it asking too much to ask a reviewer to count the stones also, say on the Gavrinis groundplan in the book (a monument celebrating the discovery of the Azores), and see if we have made mistakes in counting or methodology? Dr. de Jonge’s first book, De Stenen Spreken, was co-authored by a Dutch archaeologist. Many years of work have gone into these mathematical decipherments, for which his background in Physical Chemistry was appropriate training. Too bad “Aluta” only had the time and inclination for a superficial review.
Jay S. Wakefield, Co-Author, How the SunGod Reached America c.2500 BC, A Guide to Megalithic Sites.
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