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

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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

I had heard much about Dr. Fell's work on the internet, but this was the first of his books that I've actually read.

I'm stunned.

He was amazingly thourough, and amazingly polite and patient with all the criticisms and insults leveled at him by "experts" in the field. It's obvious now that the reason they insulted him so much rather than disputing his findings with solid facts and reasoning is that they know he was right and they were BORN wrong.

Of course he MAY have made errors [and this is not an inference that he did], but his detractors got so caught up in ad hominems that no matter how seriously they might finally take is work, they've lost all credibility on this subject.

God Bless Dr. Fell for being the pioneer with all the arrows in his back--and for proving that the "Celts" [or "Fenicians" as they called themselves] colonized America LONG before Columbus got here. Wouldn't it be nice if some of his critics managed to prove that much of this Ogam script pre-dates Jesus--something that today's scholars will admit only when nobody else is listening?

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.

If you are at all curious about the impacts of ancient migratory patterns of various peoples on ancient America, this is a book for you. The narative is an easy read and there is sufficient detail in the tables and the illustrations to satisfy the student looking for more facts behind the words. In my case, I have two American native male friends. One is a Passamaquoddy from Maine and the other a Chiricowah Apache from Arizona. They are full blood natives and their only common characteristic is that neither has a beard. One is "Celtic/Viking" in appearance; the other Mongol. This book tells you how that came to be. A wonderful read.

This is an excellent book.Not afraid to bring to light the sort of little known details which textbooks ignore!Should be in every school.

This work opens a whole new way of looking at prehistoric North America. Great reading and well documented.

Author presents a lot of interesting material and conjecture. Seems to be well organized and well written. You will be the final judge of who got here first. In total, an enjoyable, interesting read, worth your time.

Its still amazing that the established "lords" of published student text books, will not print such well documented truths that are in America BC.
This is not information that would attempt to influence someones' religious beliefs. This book is just good History.
Is the book technical in places where it describes the alphabets of different found texts ...?? Yes. But, it shows that Spanish sailors in 1492 AD, were not the FIRST to influence those who were already here.
If you enjoy the history of BC America, purchase this well written book.

Changes the out look on Columbus and 1492. This information is bringing the world a new understanding of our past.