In this book veteran space reporter E.P. GRONDINE surveys the effects of ASTEROID AND COMET IMPACTS on man in the Americas. The book includes an Introduction to the topic, and chapters on the effects of asteroid and comet impacts on man's evolution; how and when man crossed to the Americas; the impact events at the end of the last Ice Age; the arrival in North America of the Red Paint Peoples and the appearance of Copper Trading Giants; accounts from the Mayan records of the impacts at Rio Cuarto in Argentina and of the ensuing climate collapse; the accounts of the Maya and other peoples of the Great Atlantic Mega-Tsunami, and a survey of that tsunami's effects on man in the Americas; the Six Nations' eye-witness accounts of "Hopewell" societies, their crops, and their astronomy; the arrival of Comet Encke near the Earth in 536 CE and the ensuing climate collapse in the Americas; How, where, and why the Mississippians emerged; the smaller impacts at Key Marco, Florida, Genessee, New York, and in the Bald Mountains of Tennessee; eye witness accounts of the lives of the "Mississippians"; the migrations of the Little Ice Age and the end of the "Mississippians"; and the First Peoples' accounts of the arrival of the Europeans. Written using the First Peoples' own accounts and their remains, the book includes a brief TRAVEL GUIDE to their sites, along with photographs or maps of several key sites, and a small MAP of the principal trade routes in southeast North America. The book includes adaptations into easy to read modern English of the FULL TEXTS of: David Cusick's SKETCHES OF THE ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE SIX NATIONS; The Chief of the Guardians of the Temple's account of THE ANCIENT WORD OF THE NATCHEZ; Tenskwatawa, Bluejacket, Black Hoof, James Clark, Nancy Sky THE ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE SHAWNEE; THE KUSHITA TALE OF THE ANCESTORS; and THE WALUM OLUM of the Lenape
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E. P. Grondine tells us at the beginning of this book how it started as little more than an op-ed piece for an industry paper. In 1997, NBC aired the sci-fi movie "Asteroid" and the Washington Post's Kathy Sawyer had written that no one had ever been killed by an impact. Grondine was sure that several people had been killed by the Tunguska overhead comet explosion (which it now seems certain it was), and he simply intended to dig out that report and doing a short write-up about it. He went to the internet... and says this was a "terrible mistake." Why? Because he found so much material, serious work being done by scholars and scientists, showing that impacts had, at various times in our history - now suppressed - killed extremely large numbers of people.
Up to this point in time, Grondine had dismissed the warnings of Dr. Edward Teller about the danger of cosmic impacts to the earth. He figured that they were all just talking about "the big one" and who could do anything about something like that? But now, he discovered that the most cohesive theory involves multiple small impacts, or overhead explosions, and that such have killed significant numbers of people quite frequently within the past 5,000 years for certain. He gathered what he could quickly, wrote a short piece, and it was rejected. This was followed by multiple rejections... He then attended a meeting of the American Anthropology Association and found that a prominent researcher was giving a talk on the very topic. A working relationship was formed and Grondine was privileged to be included in a discussion group of professionals in the field. Since that time, he has been privy to a virtual mountain of material on impacts, writings, records surviving from mankind's past in the Americas through various means, most of it unknown to the rest of the world. The book is loaded with summations of the latest paleontological and anthropological work in the Americas and it is not a surprise to discover that most of the ancient stories and legends and myths center around comet or meteorite type impacts either exploding overhead or directly impacting the surface of the planet. These stories are compared with the archaeology and hard science is brought in here and there when needed. The book is a bit tedious in places because long passages of ancient stories are included whole, but that is actually a good feature of the book for the person interested in seeing how an interpretation is made. Included in the appendices are several complete ancient oral histories that have been written down by anthropologists and other workers in the field. This material is absolutely priceless! This book is worth having for that alone! It is useful to read several other books in conjunction with this one, namely The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes: How a Stone-Age Comet Changed the Course of World Culture by Firestone, West and Warwick-Smith, The Cosmic Serpent by Victor Clube and Bill Napier, New Light on the Black Death, and more. The topic is important because it is very likely that we are presently moving into just such a time... a time of increasing small impacts, some of which may very well kill an impressively large number of the inhabitants of our planet. The fact that this research is not more widely known, that the governments of our world are concentrating on a fake global warming scam instead of revealing that global warming always precedes ice ages, and the phenomenon is always related to cosmic impacts, is just one example of the irresponsibility of our leaders in coming to terms with what is real and preparing the public for survival. Reading how our ancestors witnessed, experienced, and in many cases survived, such events can both give warning and hope.
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This book is the first to examine the mythologies and migrations among Native American peoples in the light of our growing knowledge of comet and asteroid impacts. Grondine combines his knowledge of astronomical events gained from his work as a space reporter with anthropological and archaeological research into the history of the First Peoples in America in a feat of phenomenal scholarship that will open your mind to a whole new way of looking at these cultures. I learned something new on every page. His rendering of David Cusick's 1825 'Sketches of the Ancient History of the Six Nations' into modern English is alone worth the price of the book. In addition he writes in a straightforward, no BS way that was a pleasure to read. Highly recommended.
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If your interested in another piece of the puzzle on the how's & why's of First Nations peoples don't pass E P Grondine's trek thru the Americas.
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