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Dr. Dennis Stanford is Curator of Archaeology and Chairman of the Anthropology
Department at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, D.C. He has devoted his career to early American prehistory, and
done field work from Alaska to Monte Verde in Chile, where the oldest human
remains in the Americas were found. With his Smithsonian colleague Bruce
Bradley, he is working on the possibility that Clovis points, first found in
North America around 11,000 years ago, derive from similar flaking techniques
developed thousands of years earlier in Spain. Dr. Stanford is also one of the
eight archaeologists suing the U.S. government to make the Kennewick Man
available for study. An article on his theories about the link between European
and American flaking technology can be found at
this link.
-- part of a Smithsonian web site called "Northern Clans,
Northern Traces." His recent publications include the book Ice Age Hunters of
the Rockies (1992, Boulder: University Press of Colorado). He is working on a
book about his theory of an early North Atlantic crossing. Dr. Benjamin B. Olshin is a professor of philosophy, history, and history of science at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Initially, his work looked at Greek and Roman texts dealing with cartography and exploration in the Atlantic Ocean. Later, his research turned to early European maps and texts concerning Atlantic exploration, and as a Fulbright scholar, he studied Portuguese navigations and cartography in Lisbon, Portugal. A skeptic by nature, he is nonetheless interested in an open-minded attitude towards evidence, and believes that a "systems" approach is needed to sort out the many claims concerning early ventures into the oceans. Despite his European focus, Dr. Olshin has also written on early Chinese navigation and cartography. Edo Nyland, a world renowned Linguistic Archaeologist, is digging up artifacts of language. He is a well-known author of such books as Linguistic Archaeology: An Introduction. He identified a subset of the Basque language, the core words of which have come through five millenia in almost unchanged form, as the nearest equivalent of the neolithic universal language which has been spoken in Europe and the Near East before the 'babylonian speech confusion.' His presentation for the Atlantic Conference will be regarding be the translation of a large encoded inscription in West Virginia, written in Basque about 600 AD. Click here to learn more >>
Evan T. Pritchard, a descendant of the Algonquian Mi'kmaq tribe, is the founder
of The Center for Algonquin Culture, and Professor of Native American history at
Marist College in Poughkeepsie, NY. He is also the author of No Word for Time:
The Way of the Algonquin People. Scott F. Wolter P.G. will be speaking on the Kensington Runestone, carved in 1362. Alice B. Kehoe refers to Wolter as "a hard scientist...who understands the methodology of science and inference, from data, to the best explanation. As Kehoe says, "The notion that the Kensington Runestone is a hoax is not supported by contemporary data." Click here to learn more >> Each of our speakers will submit a synopsis of their presentation approximately three months before the Atlantic Conference and make it available to this website for review by all other speakers to allow time for constructive criticism, preparation and debate in advance of the Conference. |
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