Epigraphic Research

ADDITIONAL RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS

The first supplemental report presented in this section is titled: Two Ancient Rock Inscriptions Indicate an Archaic Chinese Presnece in the American Southwest. As a first of its kind report, the explicit North American ancient Chinese rock writings documented here establish early trans-Pacific voyages and interactions as demonstrable factual events. Importantly, the findings of this study have been independently confirmed by multiple recognized authorities in the academic fields of ancient Asiatic writing and the characteristics and dating of Native American rock art.

The second report The Ancient Chinese Writings of the Mojave Desert presents additional evidence demonstrating the historic presence of ancient literate Chinese in North America. Sixteen additional complex ancient Chinese scripts located in the Mojave Desert at a single site are documented in this report. As such these very old, unique, and in some cases clustered readable script symbols provide further proof of an early trans-Pacific intellectual exchange. 

The third supplemental report  Ancient American Rock Writing Defines the Lunar Month

analyzes and deciphers a unique set of ancient Chinese petroglyphs also located in the Mojave Desert of southern California. Collectively these images preserve the account of an ancient astronomical message defining the monthly lunar cycle as the sum of three 10-day periods. Significantly, this rock writing preserves an archaic record for the intoduction into North America of the archaic calendrical paradigm employed long ago by both Asiatic and Native American people. 

A compilation (PDF) of the study's supplemental statistical comparison charts detailing the study's most recent discoveries (charts 109-137) may be viewed and downloaded here.

For our Chinese friends researcher Walter Ko has provided additional academic commentary and insight in the Chinese language paper  美國原住民岩畫中的甲骨文.

Finally, the unique function of a previously unknown Native American sun temple is titled: The Hooper Ranch Pueblo Sun Dagger Shrine - Revisited. This indepth manuscript confirms the relationship between a still functioning natural rock sun dagger, the Hooper Ranch Pueblo, and the associated Casa Malpais Pueblo, all in east central Arizona. Highly embellished by ancient Native populations, this rock formation casts a dynamic line of sunlight onto a panel of ancient rock art figures to mark the summer solstice. In additon, the site functions as an equinox marker prior to and following the summer solstice. Importantly, and with great symbolism, the centerlines of the three nearby Hooper Ranch Pueblo kivas and the kiva of Casa Malpais were intentionally designed so that they would align with the location of this natural sunlight phenomenon. It is likely that this natural sunlight timepiece provided the inspiration for the man-made solstice markers located upon Fajada Butte in Chaco Canyon.