Pre-sapient humans in America
Pre-sapient humans in America: the case for sparse, technologically simple hominin arrivals long before Clovis and their faint archaeological traces.
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The Neolithic Ankh of Russia’s White Sea
A Neolithic White Sea petroglyph looks uncannily like an Egyptian ankh, and its first cataloguer noticed the resemblance in 1938.
An Egyptian King List: From the First Time to Cleopatra
A synthetic Egyptian king list dating sacred rule from c. 28,000 BC through Menes and the dynasties to Cleopatra VII.
How the Gods Came East: Nüwa, Pangu, and the Western Roots of Chinese Civilization
Nüwa, Eve, Pangu, and Purusha preserve a creation package that moved east through the same Eurasian roads as wheat, chariots, metals, and glass.
Why China Will Not Open Qin Shi Huang’s Tomb
The First Emperor's sealed chamber still breathes mercury—and opening its painted, lacquered cosmos could destroy it in minutes.
The Sumerian and Egyptian Roots of China’s Terracotta Army
The Terracotta Army's giants trace a western royal tradition from Sumer and Egypt through Persia and Central Asia into Qin China.
Nüwa in the Neolithic: The Goddess Temple and Pyramid of Niuheliang
Niuheliang's Goddess Temple and great pyramid preserve the Neolithic cult behind Nüwa, China's ancestral mother and creator.
The Serpent in the Snuff: Cebil, Yopo, and the Animal Grammar of Vision
How cebil and yopo became linked to serpents, jaguars, and shamanic transformation across the ancient Andes and Amazon.
The Bullroarer Atlas: Mapping a Thousand Attestations of the World’s Strangest Instrument
An interactive world atlas of 1,000+ bullroarer records reveals a sacred-to-toy gradient, a 9,000-year archaeological gap, and a snake where the wood survives.
The Paleolithic Tech-Tree of the Americas (Sites, Tools, “Modes,” and Cultural Signals)
A site-by-site, table-heavy guide to Paleolithic technologies and cultural signals across North & South America, mapped to Old World lithic “modes” and traditions.
How Wrong Would We Have to Be About Old World Contact?
A systematic look at how archaeology, genetics, linguistics, and disease ecology would all have to fail for substantial Old World settlement in pre-Columbian America to be real.
Romans in Tucson? Steelmanning the Tucson Artifacts
A critical but sympathetic reconstruction of the strongest case for the Tucson lead crosses as evidence of a medieval Old World colony in Arizona.
If the Stones Were True: How One Proven ‘Hoax’ Would Rewrite American Prehistory
A counterfactual: what would change if even one ‘hoax’ artifact like the Bat Creek Stone or Newark Decalogue were proven genuinely Old World and pre-Columbian?
Beringia’s Two-Way Street: Toolkits, Standstills, and Back-Migrations
What Beringian toolkits and genomes reveal about two-way movements between Siberia and the Americas—from Dyuktai microblades to toggling harpoons and back-migrations.
The Pirahã in Eden: A Holdout Beyond the Human Condition
Argues—within the Eve & Snake Cult theories—that Pirahã culture preserves a pre-Holocene mode of mind; contrasts with Clovis-era ‘apex’ consciousness; weighs genetics, ritual, and myth.
Ghosts of the Ice Age: The Ancient North Eurasians and Their Global Legacy
Ancient North Eurasians: who they were, what their Ice Age culture looked like, and how far their genes and cultural innovations reach today.
The Serpent Without a Self: A Deep History of Buddhism
From Paleolithic serpents and female self-making to the Buddha’s deathless: tracing a cultural-blood chain—from Mal’ta to the Ganges—that flowers as Buddhism.
The Great Mother and Sacred Prostitution: a phenomenology of hieros gamos and cultic eros
How older scholars stitched the Great Mother to temple sexuality—through hieros gamos, consecrated personnel, and fertility rites—using Greek, Near Eastern, and Roman evidence.
Serpents as Control‑Surfaces: Iranian Plateau Iconography, Eve Theory, and the Snake Cult of Consciousness
Across the Iranian Plateau, snake imagery worked as a ritual interface for water, time, and sovereignty—keys for Eve Theory and the Snake Cult of Consciousness.
Female‑Led Cosmogenesis vs. the Great Mother
Defines 'female‑led cosmogenesis' and argues that Paleolithic art and cross‑cultural myth patterns support multiple active female creators over a monolithic Great Mother, with phylogenetic and archaeological evidence.
