European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 26, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Dent cow planting Calendar in on Comanche National grasslands when Robert myer. Professor of celtic studies at Catholic University of the americas in Washington visited one North Carolina Sile studied the Gam like Marks there he called the discovery As important to celtic scholars As the dead sea respected foreign scholars such As Spain s Imanol agile Pennar Davies of the University of Wales. Agree with fell s translations in scientific circles the notion of explorers from the East visiting America before the 15th Century . Is generally greeted Wilh amusement or worse. Gordon Willey a professor Al Harvard labels such theories escapism fable fantasy Ives Goddard. Curator of the smithsonian institution s department of anthropology called fell s work lha linguistic equivalent of critics say the grooves along these Sandstone Walls Are nothing More than random tool sharpening Marks or erosion caused by old roots tree limbs. Nobody sees these Marks makes that kind of insists Roll Gillespie a former Nasa Engineer who has been part of Mcglone Leonard s forays on several Marks tend to be curved he says. Tool sharpening does not leave iwo Sida grooves in Rock that would Dull an Edge nol hone it. The celts were an ancient people who spread their culture irom the iberian Peninsula now Spain Portugal North to whal is now Ireland France. Eventually. The phoenicians took Over the celtic Homeland of Iberia. July 26.19b6 among the purported Gam Marks in Ruth Eastern Colorado arc some thai appear to be punic or other Mediterranean languages such As libyan Numidia. Leonard says. The wealth of cultures said to be represented by the Rock writing there in the Colorado canyons reinforces these pilgrims belief thai it was onco common for people to sail across the Atlantic through the Gull of Mexico up the Mississippi along mid american Waterways like the Cimarron Arkansas. While the bulk of he writing appears celtic in origin the presence of the other languages May mean that sailors from different cultures had banded together to Cross the Ocean Leonard theorizes. Like fell the other believers in celtic America come from a Langle of backgrounds. Mcglone is an Engineer in new Mexico. Leonard is a former medical researcher turned stockbroker in Utah. Gillespie lives in Washington slate As a Nasa Engineer he helped develop the equations necessary for interplanetary trajectories the formulas lha helped put humans on the Moon. Elm Trekell is a retired . Forest service Ranger who settled in Southeastern Colorado alter being assigned to the grasslands during his last Lour. Earl Margaret Goodrich Are transplanted texans who have ranches near Here for nearly 60 years Ava Bell is a former peace corps teacher turned Small town journalist. Officially though they Are All amateurs at this business As their critics emphasize. To Leonard Mcglone the reluctance of american a Phol scholars to examine seriously the Pic Colin incur evidence stems from the Long standing scholarly fight Between the so called isolationists " someone who subscribes to the diffusion theory of culture believes cultural Contact to the ancient world spread discoveries. Isolationists behave similar developments came . Al innumerable sides around the world the isolationists say were insulting Ihu american Indian with our theories saying they Ecron i smart enough to come up Wilh these things on their own Mcgleno says shrugging. They say we re racist but the indians i talk to can accept whal we re talking Aboul they Tell us that s what out traditions say " fell first advanced such theories 12 years ago in a Book titled America in the years since he the others have grown accustomed to being called Mavericks or Loots. Undeterred the group has become increasingly eager to carry its Case to the Public hundreds of possible examples of Gam have been catalogued in Southeastern Colorado Leonard says White there s risk in cutting attention to such silos we need pubic pressure to protect them the Sites Are not immune to Graffiti cowhand marked the canyons Walls with names dates in the 1800s. Trekell recalls chewing out a boy scout troop for doing the same thing a few years ago. He Points to a spot near a larger than life Buffalo etched on one Canyon Wall. Some idiot has drawn a lace Here he mutters. The stars stripes Page 15
