Great stuff again. I am going back to the old books I read 30 years ago that got me hyped on the prehistory.
My favorite you guys might grok is "The lost World of Quintana Roo" by Michael Piessel 1963.
Book Link He walked the whole peninsula of the Yucatan and found massive
numbers of cites and stone structures covered in the jungles. They would clear an area and within a week it was again covered in the rapidly growing
jungles. Now there are satellite imaging that has found vastly spread out structures and cities in jungles so dense you could not even stand, let
alone excavate from the green walls of forest.
Maya tunnels found where all over, and I really got interested when I found out about how extensive they where.
I'm a science illustrator, so get to do some cool books sometimes so I read the transcripts and bring the writing to image.
Boogley talked about Caucasians in north America when the Spaniards came. I've done some reading and work on some books citing this too.
The last couple years I did some covers for a guy who was studying the archeological record of northern European people migrating over toward the end
of the last ice age, coming in around Hudson bay. Below are two covers I did based on the fictional story that illustrated the events. Yes, evidence
suggests this happened just like the migrations from Asia on the western Alaskan and northern passage.
Frozen Trail to Merica
This book solves not only the mysterious disappearance of Norse from the Western Settlement of Greenland in the 1300s, but also deciphers Delaware
(Lenape) Indian history found to have been written in Old Norse. The fictional plot is based on Chapter 3 of Walam Olum, a manuscript of pictograms
and verses first published in 1836 and based on engravings on bark given in payment for treatment to a Dr. Ward of Indiana by an old Leni Lenape
Indian.
My Cover
And from the second book...
When I read these books I really thought how obvious this would be. Not just Asian migrations that might have become the Northern Coastal tribes, but
eastern migrations too.
It is controversial as you might find. Many think it is myth or distortions. Here is the Cliff Notes on the theory.
Walam Olum
Still quite interesting.
Oh While I'm at it, here is an illustration I did a couple decades ago of one of the the Atlanteans at the Temple of Quetzalcoatl. Juz 4 fun
Thanks again for a great discussion
At this rate I will get nothing done!
ZG
