Archaeological oddities : a field guide to forty claims of lost civilizations, ancient visitors, and other strange sites in North America / Kenneth L. Feder.
Material type: TextPublisher: Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2019]Description: xxxiii, 271 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781538105962
- 1538105969
- United States -- Antiquities -- Guidebooks
- United States -- Antiquities -- Reproduction
- Indians of North America -- Antiquities -- Guidebooks
- Indians of North America -- Antiquities -- Reproduction
- Curiosities and wonders -- United States -- Guidebooks
- America -- Discovery and exploration -- Pre-Columbian -- Miscellanea -- Guidebooks
- Forgery of antiquities
- United States -- Guidebooks
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Does evidence show that Native Americas residing in Utah a thousand years ago lived among dinosaurs, depicting those creatures in their rock art? Did some of those same ancient Americans also encounter visitors from other planets, painting images of space-suited aliens on canyon walls? Have archaeologists discovered evidence that members of the Lost Tribes of Israel visited ancient America, leaving their mark by engraving the Ten Commandments in Hebrew on rocks in New Mexico? And Ohio? Is there archaeological evidence of ancient Celtic visitors to the New World in the form of messages etched in stone, megalithic monuments, and even the remnants of the villages in which they lived? Are American archaeologists covering up the remains of lost cities deeply ensconced in a secret cave in Arizona and in a subterranean chamber in Missouri? Finally, have archaeologists discovered the far western outpost of an ancient Egyptian pharaoh, not in Egypt or even Africa, but in, of all places, California?
Those questions and more are answered by archaeologist Ken Feder in Archaeological Oddities: A Field Guide to Forty Claims of Lost Civilizations, Ancient Visitors, and Other Strange Sites in North Americathat the above listed questions and others addressed in his book represent the equivalent of "fake news" about America's ancient past. The forty sites he highlights are, in fact, fascinating and fun places to visit. Feder's guide provides an entertaining summary of those forty sites along with the practical information you'll need to visit them. This full-color book includes over 100 fascinating photographs.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-257) and index.
"This book is an offbeat field guide for sites in North America that reflect the rejection of the facts of prehistory and history. Though fake, the forty sites Feder highlights are fascinating and fun places to visit. Feder provides an entertaining summary of those forty sites along with the practical information you'll need to visit them."--Provided by publisher.
Turn and face the strange -- Here's what we know.