日批在线视频_内射毛片内射国产夫妻_亚洲三级小视频_在线观看亚洲大片短视频_女性向h片资源在线观看_亚洲最大网

USEUROPEAFRICAASIA 中文雙語Fran?ais
Lifestyle
Home / Lifestyle / People

History etched in stone

By Mike Peters | China Daily | Updated: 2014-01-11 23:55

An enthusiastic amateur believes ancient Chinese script he's found among Native American pictographs prove that Asians crossed the Pacific centuries ago, he tells Mike Peters.

History etched in stone

When hiking in Utah with his family, John Ruskamp was captivated by a drawing on a rock with a heavy patina of age. Photo provided to China Daily

Did migrating Asians settle in the Americas centuries ago?

It's not a new idea, but the theory has a new champion: a mild-mannered retiree named John Ruskamp.

And unlike some of his predecessors — many of whom he cheerfully acknowledges were "crackpots" — Ruskamp believes he's got the long-sought proof.

Writing.

"Multiple groups of North American petroglyphs make the strongest argument," says Ruskamp, who has trekked thousands of miles in the American West to examine and document rock art there.

"They are readable groups of ancient pictograms, Bronze Era Chinese script in most cases. The display of individual and dispersed Chinese pictograms, often integrated into native rock art across North America, demonstrates that these symbols were widely understood as writing."

That's significant for a secondary reason, he says: "Native Americans are not credited as having used writing."

Ruskamp wades into a long-raging controversy bearing four college degrees and a career in each field — biochemistry, education, finance and business. His resume may not impress doubters, and there are many.

"For a long time, there have been wild and unsubstantiated claims for an early Asiatic presence in the Americas. Such non-science unfortunately places a cloud over any new serious research on this topic, so much so that it is often assigned to the ‘lunatic fringe' with UFOs and the like," he says.

Ruskamp had been in Asia a few times back in the 1970s.

"I didn't learn the languages, but I grasped the pictorial basis of writing," he says. He followed up that interest with some online courses after he retired years later, and then while hiking in Utah with his family, he was captivated by a drawing on a rock with a heavy patina of age.

"Wait a minute," he recalls thinking, "I've seen that before."

"That", he was convinced, was zhou, the Chinese symbol for a boat.

Previous 1 2 Next

Copyright 1995 - . All rights reserved. The content (including but not limited to text, photo, multimedia information, etc) published in this site belongs to China Daily Information Co (CDIC). Without written authorization from CDIC, such content shall not be republished or used in any form. Note: Browsers with 1024*768 or higher resolution are suggested for this site.
License for publishing multimedia online 0108263

Registration Number: 130349
FOLLOW US
主站蜘蛛池模板: 经典久久 | 久久久精品欧美 | 日本不卡在线视频 | 国产精品麻豆免费版 | 中文字幕在线播放一区 | 亚洲美女在线视频 | www.四虎在线观看 | av网站免费在线看 | 亚洲天堂2016| 少妇特黄a一区二区三区 | 欧美整片在线观看 | 亚洲精品日韩丝袜精品 | 欧美激情婷婷 | 欧美午夜片 | 毛片一级在线观看 | 欧美 中文字幕 | 黄色大片网站在线观看 | 中文字幕精品在线 | 久久国产区 | 天天久久 | 免费久久久久 | 男女性高潮免费网站 | av大片免费看 | 日韩中出 | 成人黄色三级视频 | 97免费在线观看视频 | 亚洲精品综合在线 | 亚洲专区一区 | 亚洲精品中文字幕在线 | 欧美天堂在线视频 | 在线观看免费国产 | 国产精品操 | 丰满少妇高潮一区二区 | 欧美成人一二三区 | 91av导航 | 久久精品99国产国产精 | 久久一二区| 大尺度一区二区 | 青青草免费在线播放 | 国产一区二区视频在线免费观看 | 欧美黄色片网站 |