Archaeological Oddities

Does evidence show that Native Americas residing in Utah a thousand years ago lived among dinosaurs, depicting those creatures in their rock art? Did some of those same ancient Americans also encounter visitors from other planets, painting images of space-suited aliens on canyon walls? Have archaeologists discovered evidence that members of the Lost Tribes of Israel visited ancient America, leaving their mark by engraving the Ten Commandments in Hebrew on rocks in New Mexico? And Ohio? Is there archaeological evidence of ancient Celtic visitors to the New World in the form of messages etched in stone, megalithic monuments, and even the remnants of the villages in which they lived? Are American archaeologists covering up the remains of lost cities deeply ensconced in a secret cave in Arizona and in a subterranean chamber in Missouri? Finally, have archaeologists discovered the far western outpost of an ancient Egyptian pharaoh, not in Egypt or even Africa, but in, of all places, California?
Those questions and more are answered by archaeologist Ken Feder in Archaeological Oddities: A Field Guide to Forty Claims of Lost Civilizations, Ancient Visitors, and Other Strange Sites in North Americathat the above listed questions and others addressed in his book represent the equivalent of "fake news" about America's ancient past. The forty sites he highlights are, in fact, fascinating and fun places to visit. Feder's guide provides an entertaining summary of those forty sites along with the practical information you'll need to visit them. This full-color book includes over 100 fascinating photographs.

Kenneth L. Feder, professor of anthropology at Central Connecticut State University, specializes in the archaeology of North America. He is author of several books, including Ancient America: Fifty Archaeological Sites to See for Yourself . Feder has appeared on numerous television documentaries on the National Geographic Channel, the BBC's Horizon, the History Channel, the Discovery Channel, and the SyFy Channel and has been featured in episodes of the Canadian-based William Shatner'sWeird or What?

Preface - What I Did on My Summer Vacations (and intersessions, Spring breaks, and too many long weekends to count)
Chapter 1- Turn and Face the Strange
Chapter 2- Here's What We Know
The Sites
Ancient Visitors: Written Messages
1. Crack Cave, Comanche National Grassland, Colorado
2. Davenport Tablets, Davenport, Iowa
3. Dighton Rock, Berkley, Massachusetts
4. Westford Knight, Westford, Massachusetts
5. Michigan Relics, Michigan
6. Kensington Rune Stone, Alexandria, Minnesota
7. Los Lunas Decalogue Stone, Los Lunas, New Mexico
8. Newark Holy Stones, Newark, Ohio
9. Heavener Rune Stone, Heavener, Oklahoma
10. Bat Creek Stone, Loudon County, Tennessee
11. Grave Creek Stone, Moundsville, West Virginia
Ancient Visitors: Stone Monuments
12. Acton Stone Chamber, Acton, Massachusetts
13. Upton Stone Chamber, Upton, Massachusetts
14. Peach Pond Chamber
15. Druid Hill, Lowell, Massachusetts
16. Balanced Rock, North Salem, New York
17. Newport Tower, Newport Rhode Island
Ancient Visitors: Villages
18. Gungywamp, Groton, Connecticut
19. America's Stonehenge/Mystery Hill, North Salem, Massachusetts
20. L'anse aux Meadow, Newfoundland, Canada
Ancient Visitors: Aliens
21. Roswell Flying Saucer Crash Site, Roswell, New Mexico
22. Serpent Mound, Peebles, Ohio
23. Head of Sinbad, San Rafael Swell, Utah
24. Sego Canyon, Thompson Springs, Utah
Lost Civilization
25. Tucson Artifacts, Tucson, Arizona
26. Grand Canyon Secret Cave, Grand Canyon, Arizona
27. Moberly Subterranean City, Moberly, Missouri
28. Burrows Cave, Illinois
Biblical Proof?
29. The Cardiff Giant, Cooperstown, New York
30. Paluxy River Footprints, Glen Rose, Texas
31. Black Dragon Pictograph, San Rafael Swell, Utah
32. Kachina Bridge Pictograph, Natural Bridges National Monument, Utah
New Age Antiquity
33. Palatki Cliff Dwelling, Sedona Arizona
34. Honanki Cliff Dwelling, Sedona, Arizona
Unexpected Critter Depiction
35. Painted Rock Hairy Man Depictions, Tule Indian Reservation, Porterville, California
Follies
36. Lost Egyptian City, Guadaupe, California
37. Carhenge, Alliance, Nebraska
38. The Dig, Governor's Island, New York, New York
39. Columcille Megalithic Park, Bangor, Pennsylvania
40. Maryhill Stonehenge, Maryhill, Washington State