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Contact with Ancient America presents evidence of pre-Columbian contact between North American and foreign cultures. Readers are introduced to America's rapidly disappearing ancient sites and are encouraged to preserve them. This revisionist history targets a popular audience interested in North American ancient history that has not been published in standard texts. The text is enlivened with almost 100 photos and illustrations that depict the places, objects, and people discussed. Book contents include: comparative megalithic architecture, astronomy, and the agricultural/fertility religion in North America and Western Europe; the funerary tablets of America's Moundbuilders inscribed with Old Hebrew and Iberic scripts; Norse runic inscriptions that prove contact with Scandinavian people; pre-Colonial writing systems of Native Americans and their appearance on deeds and treaties with Colonials; and the tracing of ancient symbols and the Ogam alphabet used by worldwide cultures.… (more)