America B.C.: Ancient Settlers in the New World

It's interesting to me that the alphabet that was discovered at the turquoise mines in Serebit, in Arabia, from the late bronze age, also shows up in the Adena culture in West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Ohio, a bit later. Most of this evidence gets destroyed. Main stream academia insists that all of the inhabitants of North America crossed a 'land bridge' from Siberia during some ice age when the oceans were lower. There is no evidence that such a thing ever happened. People came from several different directions at different times. And they came by ship.

I had read much about Barry Fell - he's rather controversial among archaeologists - and thought I should find out more about him before writing him off. He writes a great deal about Ogam, the Celtic inscriptions found in Europe and British Isles as well as North and South America. I found him rather convincing in a majority of his materials. He gives examples of structures and inscriptions found in the "old world," then goes on to compare similar ones found in the Western Hemisphere. Scholars with open minds seem to support many of his conclusions, but criticize his "translations" of ancient writings. In my mind that means his theory is correct, but some of his details are questioned. I recommend anyone interested in ancient history to first read what others say about Fell, then read America B. C. I found it fascinating and certainly challenging to the status quo.

After a lifetime of study and reading, I had formed my own opinion that we had not been giving sufficient credit to our early ancestors and their abilities. I believed that many people from all over the world had been traveling around this planet for a very long time. Traveling around the world, it is very hard to believe the dogma that "Columbus Discovered America". Even at an early age, I was able to figure out that indeed "Columbus was last". I read the first edition of this book, as well as Bronze Age America and Stone Age America both by Barry Fell, when they first came out in the mid 1970s and it brought together all of my studies and confirmed my theories about early man in general. There is far too much evidence to support Barry Fell's conclusions to doubt them. The book is an easy to read revelation that will change your thinking about our ancestors and the early history of man in America.

Author: Barry Fell CBS' 60 Minutes program of 9/15/02: KENNEWICK MAN -- the discovery of a 9,000-year-old skeleton - not only seriously questions the notion that Indians inhabited America first, but is causing an old-fashioned science-versus-religion battle. While scientists are fighting for the right to study the bones, Indians say their religion requires they be buried immediately - so reports 60 Minutes' Lesley Stahl. ... America B.C.(Barry Fell) was uncovering this some 27 years ago! This highly and widely acclaimed book provides substantial evidence that anglo Europeans were living and trading in America 4500 years before Columbus. When Barry Fell's AMERICA B.C. first exploded on the literary scene it was acclaimed by critics as " ...The first major work to penetrate the mysteries of ancient European inhabitants in America" and its support has grown even stronger over the years. It has long been taken for granted that the first European visitors to American shores either sailed with Columbus in 1492, or with Norseman like Lief Erickson a full five centuries earlier. But the history of America before that date has remained, so far, lost in native Indian legends. This was the case until the late Harvard Professor Barry Fell uncovered evidence, including astonishing new discoveries, to replace those legends with myth-shattering fact. Illuminating, authoriative and enhanced with over 100 pictures, AMERICA B.C. describes American inscriptions, some of them known for a century or more, that turn out to have been written in ancient scripts of a type only recently deciphered in Europe or North Africa. Thus the truth has slowly come to light, ancient history is inscribed upon the bedrock and buried stone buildings of America, and the only hands that could have inscribed it were those of ancient people. America, as we now realize, is a treasure house of records of man's achievement upon the high seas in bygone ages. Even more so are our inscribed rocks and tablets a heritage from a forgotten era of colonization. They tell us of settlers who came from the Old World and who remained to become founding fathers of some of the Amerindian nations. "Now, thanks to the genuis of a single man...We must include in our American Heritage - Fighting Celts from Spain...daring Semitic Seafarers from Carthage, Libya and Egypt. Who knows how many others will be added before the end of Barry Fell's epic voyage into the past!" - Reader's Digest "A stunning book...an authenic landmark...America B.C. destroys the premise of every previous text." - Peter Tompkins, author of Secrets of the Great Pyramid Paperback 352 pages

Barry Fell's book was very enlightening. The spiel that there was no intercontinental travel previous to ca. 1400 CE. short-sighted. The mainstream scientific establishment as of late (especially in America (and yes, I'm an American)) has become as Dogmatic as the church was before the reformation. New ideas that go against the establishment are quickly labeled "Heretical" and the authors are usually shunned (Dr. Atkins would be a prime example) by other scientists/scholars that could greatly benefit from discourse with a person championing and alternative to what is currently accepted. Galileo faced the same pressures in his lifetime and the scientific establishment needs to learn and accept that innovation and breakthrough often come from outside the establishment. I believe that modern Archaeologists need to take a serious look into the issues that Fell (and others like Hans Holzer, etc.) are raising. I found the information that ancient Macedonian pottery shards had been found in Northern California to be especially exciting. I believe that any student of history or archaeology owes it to themselves to pick up this book and give it a read, besides, even if you don't believe everything Fell has to say, it would still be decent entertainmen :)

Dr. Barry Fell uses his extensive knowledge of ancinet writing to document and prove commerce between Mediterannean people and America from approx. 2,500 BC to 100 AD. While his documented examination and dating of writings all over the American eastern seabaord through known variations in ancient writings styles etc is conclusive ... he is constantly attacked by the uneducated as as they cling to hugely out of date "history". What this book conclusive also then establishes is that out of date American educational system that will trash such scholarly work endlessly to defend itself.