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GavinMenzies.net Newsletter, October 2008
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Greetings and welcome to the October 2008
newsletter!
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Travels in the USA Meanwhile, Ian Hudson, who leads the research team in London, travelled to the West coast of the USA. He spent several fascinating days in Oregon visiting the sites of several purported Chinese wrecks. It is hoped that a representative from the University of Oregon archaeological department will preside over a sample drilling on the site some time in the next month. Past attempts at extracting samples have not been successful but our fingers are always crossed!
Ian then travelled to Los Angeles to discuss the '1421
movie' project which is moving along, slowly but
surely. He also met with Bob Meistrell, co-founder
of "Bodyglove", the wetsuit company. Bob had dived
the Palos Verdes anchor site in the 1970's. Having
reached the sea floor Bob and his team came across
a swathe of what appeared to be ancient Chinese
stone anchors. We will place photos of these on our
website. Bob and his team managed to salvage a few
of the anchors but many of them remain on the sea
floor. The area is now overgrown with kelp and diving
the site is not recommended. The anchors were
investigated by 4 separate authorities but none of
them could come to an agreement on the origin of the
anchors. Some state that they were mined by
contemporary Chinese fisherman in the 19th century
from local Californian rock. However, many, as we do,
believe that the manganese deposits that have built
up on the anchors show that they must have been
under the sea for centuries. Also the rock type has an
exact match in China.
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We are hoping to re-open the investigation into the anchors in the light of the great quantity of evidence showing a pre-Columbian Chinese presence in California since '1421' was published. For more information on the Palos Verdes site please visit the following site: http://www.cristobalcolondeibiza.com/2eng/2e ng15.htm
Speaking engagements
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Charlotte Harris Rees Charlotte Harris Rees will be speaking about her new book 'Secret Maps of the Ancient World' (about the very early arrival of Chinese to America) at the University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland on November 20 from 11:15 to noon with questions and lunch to follow. You must pre-register to attend. For details on how to register see "Charlotte's Schedule" on her web site www.HarrisMaps.c om (This speech at the University of Maryland is open to the public and will take the place of the speech she previously announced for Nov. 14 in Washington, D.C.)
Rosanne Hawarden
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Rock art in Australia Lastly we would like to draw your attention to an archaeological find of huge importance in Australia. The discovery of an extraordinary collection of rock art recording life in the area for the past 15,000 years, until 50 years ago. Alongside ancient paintings of thylacines, a mammal long extinct on the mainland, are images documenting modern-day inventions - a car, a bicycle wheel, a biplane and a rifle - as well as portraits of a missionary and a sea captain. Scientists documenting the rock art, spread across at least 100 sites in the remote Wellington Range, say it ranks among the world's finest. It also appears to rewrite Australian history, undermining the widely held assumption that the continent was isolated and largely unvisited until the First Fleet arrived in 1788. The paintings suggest that the people of northern Australia have been interacting with seafaring visitors from Asia and Europe for hundreds, possibly thousands, of years. For more information please visit the following link: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/worl d/australasia/australian-history-rewritten-in-rock-art- 951828.htmlbr> It will be interesting to see whether any Chinese junks pop up in the paintings!
Until then, happy hunting!
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