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The Atlantic Conference
Saint Mary's University, Nova
Scotia, 15th-17th August 2008
The Atlantic Conference to be
held at Saint Mary's University, Nova Scotia, should bring much
needed
light to a dark corner in history.
We all know the rhyme "In Fourteen Hundred and ninety two,
Columbus sailed the Ocean Blue", and all that follows from that.
In 1992, on the 500th Anniversary of Columbus voyage a Native
American response in a song was "Columbus didn't discover
America, it wasn't lost, it was always there." Our view of the
Continent called America is very Eurocentric. We talk of the New
World, but it was only New to the Europeans. We do not now know
what it was called before because we have replaced most of the
original names, used by the "native Americans" (even that term
is incorrect, but better than "Indian" which followed from
Columbus not actually knowing where he had arrived). They have
always told a different story and it has been neglected too
long. DNA testing is starting to show that there are ancient
links across the oceans, and archaeology is dispelling long held
historical "fact".
The organisers have brought together a number of well know and
exceptionally qualified speakers to look at topics ranging from
the theory of an early North Atlantic crossing, the Kensington
Runestone, the much-debated Newport Tower, ancient cairns,
astronomical alignments and on petroglyphs in the Eastern
Townships of Quebec, the traditional practices, language and the
history of native people, the origin and development of early
Meso American temple centres, to a Chinese version of North and
South America nearly a century before Columbus, Bristol and the
exploration of North America in the late fifteenth century and a
large encoded inscription in West Virginia, written in Basque
about 600 AD.
This conference promises an interesting debate and the start of
a process of establishing the facts and promoting wider
knowledge of historical reality as opposed to mythology.
Link:
The Atlantic Conference
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