| JOIN THE PLEISTOCENE COALITION! | PREHISTORY IS ABOUT TO CHANGE |
![3 Musketeers, 2001[fromV_6-1-11].jpg](images/3%20Musketeers,%202001%5BfromV_6-1-11%5D.jpg)
![tn_Rex,_NC_LiDAR_DEM_of_Carolina_bays[reduced-to150from300dpi].jpg](images/tn_Rex,_NC_LiDAR_DEM_of_Carolina_bays%5Breduced-to150from300dpi%5D.jpg)
![tn_VSM_Intro[h90].jpg](images/tn_VSM_Intro%5Bh90%5D.jpg)
![tn_51+sRk3WgFL._SL500_AA246_PIkin2,BottomRight,-13,34_AA280_SH20_OU01_[h90].jpg](images/tn_51+sRk3WgFL._SL500_AA246_PIkin2,BottomRight,-13,34_AA280_SH20_OU01_%5Bh90%5D.jpg)
![tn_james reid moir[fromV_7-8-11]contrast+20_h65.jpg](images/tn_james%20reid%20moir%5BfromV_7-8-11%5Dcontrast+20_h65.jpg)
 |  |  |  ![tn_Winkler_M_Ancient Art & Modern Language Draft[4-24-10]_1_0001.jpg](images/Winkler_M_Ancient%20Art%20&%20Modern%20Language%20Draft%5B4-24-10%5D_1_0001.jpg) |
|
"I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else where I was capable of thinking for myself."
- Thomas Jefferson, 1789 -
|
PLEISTOCENE COALITION MEMBERS
Researchers with evidence challenging the standard view of early man
as promoted by mainstream science
Researchers with evidence challenging the standard view of early man
as promoted by mainstream science
| Challenging the Myth |
¯¯¯ Palaeolithic geometry, cartography, and linguistics
If you believe that early peoples such as Homo erectus and Neanderthals were less intelligent than we are today, then you are placing far too much trust in the objectivity of mainstream science and especially the evolutionary community. Unlike in other fields of science, and due to the less-rigorous nature and weaknesses of its tenets, this community routinely blocks from publication any evidence that challenges its core paradigms resulting in public perceptions that are not accurate. On this page (The Graphics of Bilzingsleben, in lieu of the forthcoming page), you can learn the story of how empirical and unequivocal geometric data challenging a paradigm and presented in a mainstream forum was held back from publication by the European, Australian, and U.S. scientific communities. Learn how this data (held back since 2006) demonstrates beyond any doubt that there has been no change in human cognitive ability for at least 400,000 years, challenging the veracity of the evolutionary paradigm in a way never anticipated and leaving the only strategic response from the faith-based Darwin community that of low, though standard evolutionary community, behaviors such as name-calling (see exposé below) or simply ignoring or censoring the evidence. (John Feliks) Websites: graphics-of-bilzingsleben-overview Selected articles in PC News: - Continuity through time (Issue 1) - Ardi: How to create a science myth (Issue 3) - The Pleistocene Coalition: Exploring a new paradigm (Issue 7) - The golden flute of Geissenklösterle: preview (Issue 8) - Graphics of Bilzingsleben series, Pt 1: Staight edge use by Homo erectus (Issue 12) - Graphics of Bilzingsleben series, Pt 2: The oldest human language (Issue 13) - Graphics of Bilzingsleben series, Pt 3: Base grids of a suppressed Homo erectus knowledge system (Issue 14) - Graphics of Bilzingsleben series, Pt 4: 350,000 years before Bach (Issue 15) - Graphics of Bilzingsleben series, Pt 5: Gestalten (Issue 16) - 12 Angry Men, starring Henry Fonda: a superb classic film for teaching critical thinking attitude and skills (Issue 16) |
  |
| Steen-McIntyre |
¯¯¯ People have been in the New World for 250,000 years
If you are absolutely convinced that people first arrived in the Americas a mere 15-30 thousand years ago, this is because you have been spoon-fed by an institution that will not allow you to see conflicting data. When scientific institutions withhold empirical data in order to promote a single belief system they can manipulate a trusting public into believing whatever paradigm they wish to impose upon them. Those who trust the institutions but do not investigate the evidence themselves are easily prodded along. On this website you can view actual archaeological data straight from a tephrochronologist (volcanic ash expert, Ph.D). Re-claim your ability to think for yourself. Go beyond what you read on blogs or watch on standard science programs and be prepared to question what you have long been taught regarding the peopling of the Americas. (This website is under construction. However, much of the data on the archaeological sites can be viewed temporarily on the Valsequillo and Hueyatlaco forums of the website.Click on the link or the picture for Virginia Steen-McIntyre's Pleistocene Coalition page and quick information on Valsequillo and Hueyatlaco.) Steen-McIntyre is a founding member of the Pleistocene Coalition and editor and advisor for Pleistocene Coalition News. Pleistocene Coalition webpage: Selected articles in PC News: HUEYATLACO/VALSEQUILLO SAGA - Introduction (Issue 11) - Part 1 (Issue 11) - Part 2 (Issue 11) - Part 3 (Issue 12) - Part 4 (Issue 12) - Part 5 (Issue 13) - Part 6 (Issue 13) - Part 7 (Issue 14) - The long haul: Virginia Steen-McIntyre on the fight for recognition at Valsequillo (Issue 1)
- Peking man a meeting with the last person to handle the Zhoukoudian erectus fossils (Issue 4) - Atepitzingo, Part 1: Was American Homo erectus fashion conscious? (Issue 5) - Atepitzingo, Part 2: Was American Homo erectus a right-brain thinker? (Issue 5) - BOOK REVIEW: Artchaeology by Dragos Gheorghiu (Issue 5) - BOOK REVIEW: Cycle of cosmic catastrophes, by Richard Firestone, Allen West, and Simon Warwick-Smith (Issue 6) - What happened to the Atepitzingo horse head? Ancient engraving from Mexico (Issue 7) - The enigmatic Ostrander skull (Issue 7) - BOOK REVIEW: Drawing on the right side of the brain (Issue 8) - Tetela 1 scribed bone: Oldest American artwork yet? (Issue 9) - An avocational archaeology page? (Issue 9) - Blocking data: At the editor's desk (Issue 9) - Data block: The conference from Hell (Issue 10) - The collapse of standard paradigm New World prehistory (Issue 14) - El Horno (Issue 15) - Bob McKinney, 1933-2011, Valsequillo Classic Project colleague (Issue 16) - Avocational archaeology: To clean or not to clean... that is the question (Issue 16) IN THEIR OWN WORDS series:
- Asian Homo erectus in the Americas? (Issue 2) - Caltrans site 300,000-year old mastodon kill site documented by California Deptartment of Transportation paleontological survey (Issue 3) - The mastodon as food in ancient Mexico (Issue 6) - Never before in the Western Hemisphere" ?? Tetela 1 mastodon (Issue 8) |
 Click for Virginia Steen-McIntyre's Pleistocene Coalition page. |
| OriginsNet.org | ¯¯¯ Art and religion have been around since the beginning The website of James B. Harrod, Ph.D. Do you have a picture of early peoples such as Homo erectus or Neanderthals as just barely intelligent enough to walk around or throw a few spears? Is your picture one in which early peoples spend their entire lives in little more than a desperate struggle for survival without stories or philosophies? On this website you can learn through images of actual artifacts how the archaeological evidence for early art, myth and religion is both immense and vast. If you are prepared to think in 3D and enter into the spiritual and philosophical minds of early people, then it is time to look beyond the mundane interpretations of artifacts so long promoted by mainstream science and realize with confidence what you probably already intuitively knew - that human beings have always thought and felt deeply about their world. Harrod is a founding member of the Pleistoecne Coalition. Articles in PC News, ISSUES #3 and #8: - Out of Africa revisited technological and symbolic innovation over 3 million years time (Issue 3) - Stratigraphic mythology 'Mytho-stratigraphy' and report on mythology seminar at Harvard (Issue 8) - Comment on dating of Benekendorff's Ohle pit artifacts (Issue 15) |
 |
| VanLandingham | ¯¯¯ Mainstream science runs when its precepts are challenged Scientists absorbed in the long-unquestioned paradigm that Homo erectus never made it to the New World may tell you to steer clear of "fringe" ideas. They often do whatever it takes to make certain that you, as a consumer of science, are left to know of only one perspective in regards how American archaeological sites are dated and when early peoples first appeared in the Americas. Often, they have provided dates for artifacts and even human remains specially-tailored to fit the preconceived notion that only modern Homo sapiens made it to the New World. See where this is heading? Rest assured, these scientists are now running scared in the face of hard-fast data. Here you can read the actual reports from one of the world's leading diatomists, Ph.D (reports these scientists would rather you didn't have access to) demonstrating beyond any reasonable doubt that archaic people were in the Americas 80-400 thousand years ago. VanLandingham is a founding member of the Pleistoecne Coalition. Pleistocene Coalition webpage: Articles in PC News: TWO-PART SERIES in PC News 7 & 8: Blocking data
SPECIAL SERIES ON HUEYATLACO - part one: The Dorenberg skull hoax caper (Issue 6) - part two: Misuse of the peer review process (Issue 7) - VanLandingham on Hueyatlaco (Issue 11) |
 Click for Sam VanLandingham's Pleistocene Coalition page. |
| The First American | ¯¯¯ Science will sometimes suppress what it doesn't understand This website is based on the comprehensive volume by archaeologist, Christopher Hardaker, detailing the entire story of how a whole generation of science readers have been deliberately steered away from data that might confuse them regarding the aggressively-promoted paradigm of no-early-peoples in the Americas. Are you, as an objective thinker, concerned by those attempting to do your thinking for you? You should be. Hardaker's page also features updates on an American archaeological site deemed invalid by promoters of the above-mentioned paradigm though one taken seriously by famed anthropologist Louis Leakey. All in all, it is the data that matter. Rather than allowing yourself to be prodded along, take a look at the data and think for yourself. Keep in mind that if one piece of data (e.g., VanLandingham diatoms) establishes the reality of even a single early site, then the entire New World frontier will change in an instant. Hardaker is a founding member of the Pleistoecne Coalition. THREE-PART SERIES: The abomination of Calico |
 |
|
Join us! BEGIN EXPLORING HUMAN PREHISTORY FROM A PERSPECTIVE UNLIKE ANYTHING YOU HAVE BEEN TAUGHT IN GRADE SCHOOL OR UNIVERSITY WHICH IS SCIENTIFICALLY ACCURATE AND COMPLIMENTARY TOWARD THE WORLD'S EARLY PEOPLES... ...YOUR ANCESTORS ![paleocameraPC1[fromMatt5-16-10]filesize-reduce-convert-to-grayscale[resofrom72to150_h4''].jpg](images/paleocameraPC1%5BfromMatt5-16-10%5Dfilesize-reduce-convert-to-grayscale%5Bresofrom72to150_h4%27%27%5D.jpg)
then you belong with us!
|
PLEISTOCENE COALITION MEMBERS (cont.)Researchers with evidence challenging the standard view of early man as promoted by mainstream science
| Paleo-camera | ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ United States The website of Matt Gatton. "Harsh climates in the Paleolithic era forced humans and their predecessors to adopt heat-retaining dwelling strategies, including the use of hide tents in cave mouths, under rock overhangs, and in the open. Small random holes in these hide tents would have coincidentally and occasionally formed camera obscuras, projecting moving images inside the dwelling spaces. These ghostly images carried with them spiritual, philosophical, and aesthetic implications." Website: Book chapter by Matt Gatton - 2009. "First light: Inside the Palaeolithic camera obscura," in Acts of seeing: Artists, scientists, and the history of the visual
Recently-published proceedings paper: - Gatton, M., L. Carreon, M. Cawein, W. Brock, V. Scott. 2010. The Camera Obscura and the Origin of Art: The Case for Image
Projection in the Paleolithic. In Fidalgo C., and L. Oosterbeek (vol. eds.), Proceedings of the XV UISPP World Congress (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006) 35, BAR S2108, Oxford.
Articles in PC News:- Paleo-camera and the concept of representation (Issue 5)
Article in PC News #7, FIRST ANNIVERSARY ISSUE:- Paleo-camera, Phase II: Projected images in art and ritual (Issue 6) |
![tn_paleocameraPC1[fromMatt5-16-10]filesize-reduce-convert-to-grayscale[resofrom72to150_h4''].jpg](images/tn_paleocameraPC1%5BfromMatt5-16-10%5Dfilesize-reduce-convert-to-grayscale%5Bresofrom72to150_h4%27%27%5D.jpg) ![tn_Horse projection-Matt'sField Reconstructions-page[htopsequ]crop.jpg](images/tn_Horse%20projection-Matt%27sField%20Reconstructions-page%5Bhtopsequ%5Dcrop.jpg) |
| Alan Cannell | ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Brazil International civil engineer and author of Throwing behaviour and the mass distribution of geological hand samples, hand grenades and Olduvian manuports. Pleistocene Coalition webpage: Slide show by Alan Cannell: Articles in PC News: - The next decade: What do you think will happen? (Issue 3)
- Deep roots of aesthetic design: Winklepickers and Phi (Issue 3) - Phi, beauty, and the Neolithic (Issue 4) - Chimps and bonobos: Gently putting the molecular clocks back (Issue 4) - Google Earth as a support tool in paleoanthropology (Issue 5) - Sexual selection in archaic populations: Were Neanderthals 'cute' in their own way? (Issue 6) - How do you keep the wolf from the door when the door has yet to be invented? Chimpanzee/bonobo morphing (Issue 10) - 'Mainstream' terminology: How to stay politically correct in these changing paleoanthropological times (Issue 15) Articles in PC News, FIRST ANNIVERSARY ISSUE: - Archaic populations and modern humans, parts 1 & 2 (Issue 7)
- The curious case of KSD-VP-1/1: In which afarensis becomes more modern the older it gets (Issue 7) TWO-PART SERIES in PC News 8 & 9: - THE DMANISI HOMINIDS Part 1: Uplift, Altitude and Coastal Location (Issue 8) - THE DMANISI HOMINIDS Part 2: Heights and Brains (Issue 9) |
 Click on the above image to go directly to Alan's paper on Throwing Behaviour. |
| Archives of Cultural Exchanges |
¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ United States This website specializes in unexpected links between widely-separated cultures and civilizations. It offers a large database of evidence for early contact between cultures of the Old World and the New World long before the voyages of Columbus and others in the European "Age of Exploration." Its aim extends into prehistory. Archaeological evidence for earlier contact than promoted by the mainstream science and historical communities includes appearance of new food crops, animals, calendars, religious practices, medical procedures, genetics, etc. The Archives' main focus is on early interaction between cultures located on opposite sides of the Atlantic or Pacific Oceans; i.e. between the Eastern Hemisphere and the Americas. The website's moderators are Carl L. Johannessen, Ph.D, Professor Emeritus at the University of Oregon, Dept. of Geography; and John L. Sorenson, Ph.D, Professor Emeritus at Brigham Young University, Dept. of Anthropology. They are co-authors of the ground-breaking book, World trade and biological exchanges before 1492 (2009). This comprehensive and rigorous volume was rejected for publication by mainstream presses and university presses alike. The blocking of evidence that does not adhere to mainstream views is a common problem for researchers who are challenging scientific dogma and is one of the primary reasons that the Pleistocene Coalition was formed. Johannessen's story in brief: In the 1960's, Dr. Johanessen began research into the domestication of plants and animals in Central America followed by investigations in the Himalayan region of Asia which were funded by grants from the National Science Foundation. Noticing the similarity of crops such as corn, beans, and squash which had not been observed before, Johannessen began to postulate that contact between cultures on opposite sides of the globe began long before the eras commonly taught. It was at this point that the grant money came to a halt. Johannessen suggests this happened because of mainstream allegiance to the idea of no early contact between the hemispheres and that sculptures depicting corn in East Indian temples, for example, that Johannessen provided as evidence could not possibly depict corn (See images at right and develop your own opinion). Despite these setbacks, like others in the Coalition, Johannessen and Sorenson (author of Pre-Columbian contact with the Americas across the oceans) continue to move forward with their research developing a compelling and expanding case for early contacts extending farther and farther back in time. Related articles in PC News:
- Let the review stand: Gloria Farley debate, by Carl L Johannessen (Issue 3)
- World trade and biological exchanges before 1492, book review by Peter Faris (Issue 4) - News: Archives of Cultural Exchanges website now up and running (Issue 11)) |
 Above: Pre-Columbian temple sculpture in India depicting a woman holding an ear of corn as a likely fertility symbol. "Maize breeders in India, China, United States, and Great Britain, who have seen extensive collections of the illustrations, concur...only sculptors with abundant ears of maize as models could have created these illustrations of maize" (Click to enlarge). Below: Similar sculpture at a different temple. Photos by Carl L. Johannessen.  |
| Rock Art Blog |
¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ United States The website of Peter Faris of the Colorado Rock Art Association (Archivist/Publications/and former president). "I began studying rock art back in 1979... I am particularly interested in using clues within the rock art, the culture, and its mythology, to attempt interpretations of meaning." DISCUSSION FORUM Website: Articles in PC News: - Debate article, In Plain Sight (Issue 2) - BOOK REVIEW: "World Trade and Biological Exchanges Before 1492" by John L. Sorenson and Carl L. Johannessen (Issue 4) |
|
| Groups on the Edge | ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ International In the past several years not only have researchers battling suppression questioned the objectivity behind mainstream science and anthropology but so has an increasingly Internet-savvy general public. Online researchers are less inclined to simply trust science once they realize that a single ideology rather than scientific objectivity has been driving interpretations of evidence in areas as important as human origins or human prehistory. Prior to the Internet, the peer review system in anthropology so effectively blocked conflicting data from publication that the general public had no way of knowing that conflicting data even existed; it believed that mainstream science was giving them a true and balanced interpretation of all known evidence. However, the Internet has changed everything; more people are privy to the fact that dissenting evidence—awareness of which is an absolutely crucial part of critical thinking and objectivity—is being withheld in anthropology while selected evidence is being presented as unchallenged and in the context of what is increasingly being recognized as a belief system or worldview. As a response, more and more people have joined together to form discussion groups to weigh out the evidence for themselves, express doubts, and otherwise openly challenge proclemations in anthropology presented as science that would never pass as science in any other field. This page will contain links to various such groups. It should make no difference to readers whether these groups are motivated by science alone or contain members whose concerns include religions or philosophies. What matters, and what skeptics should pay attention to, is that these groups have mounting empirical reasons to doubt the veracity and objectivity of what is presented to them as fact by mainstream science. In one way or another, groups of this nature support a premise of the Pleistocene Coalition that mainstream scientific behaviors such as suppression of conflicting data need to be fought, that is, unless we are all content to become puppets of an international belief system presented as science yet which is somehow immune to the standard scientific requirement of testability in real time. IMPORTANT NOTE: Most of these groups feature regular contributions by mainstream scientists though these contributors, for obvious reasons, often write under the safety of anonimity via avatar or nicknames. It is likely that many of these scholars will come out publicly when the paradigm changes and the evidence begins to be weighed in an equitable manner. |
 |
| Jörn Greve | ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Germany "There has to be stated a continuous line showing how ethnocentristic our scientific view is focussed and thereby rejecting our ancestors like the Neandertals as being only another aberration and not at all a part of our ancestral line." -Jörn Greve, PD, MD, neurologist, author "Pre-Symbolic Interaction and the Palaeo-Ecology of Religion." Pleistocene Coalition webpage: Articles in PC News: - Diversity not Darwinism, Jörn Greve, Gerhard Neuhäuser (Issue 2)
- Does symbolism represent progress? Jörn Greve, Lutz Fiedler (Issue 2) - Ardi and Ida: On their way - not only out of Africa, Jörn Greve, Gerhard Neuhäuser (Issue 4) - Determinants of human development - exemplified by Homo floresiensis, Jörn Greve, Gerhard Neuhäuser (Issue 6) - Approaching prehistoric "art" by socio-systemic dating of the Cussac Cave engravings, Jörn Greve and Gerhard Neuhäuser (Issue 10) - Which factors could have caused the expansion of Modern Man - impact, hazard or transition? Jörn Greve and Gerhard Neuhäuser (Issue 13) |
 Neanderthal range in Europe and the Middle East charted by Ryulang
|
| ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Germany Department of Pediatrics, Neurology (retired), Justus-Liebig-University in Giessen. Head of Child Neurology and Social Pediatrics, 1978-2001. Professor Neuhauser is especially interested in developmental problems and neurobiology of behavior. Pleistocene Coalition webpage: Articles in PC News: - Diversity not Darwinism, Jörn Greve, Gerhard Neuhäuser (Issue 2) - Ardi and Ida: On their way - not only out of Africa, Jörn Greve, Gerhard Neuhäuser (Issue 4) - Determinants of human developoment - exemplified by Homo floresiensis, Jörn Greve and Gerhard Neuhäuser (Issue 6) - Approaching prehistoric "art" by socio-systemic dating of the Cussac Cave engravings, Jörn Greve and Gerhard Neuhäuser (Issue 10) - Which factors could have caused the expansion of Modern Man - impact, hazard or transition? Jörn Greve and Gerhard Neuhäuser (Issue 13) |
 |
|
| Beth McCormack |
¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ United States Beth McCormack's background and interests are diverse. She did her dissertation (M.A. Univ. of Reading, UK) on altered states of consciousness and is interested in Lower Palaeolithic societies as well as exploring the union of art and science. McCormack has studied data from Lower Palaeolithic sites such as Bilzingsleben and applied ideas formulated by those studies to the prehistoric passage graves of Wales and Ireland. Also influencing McCormack's approach to archaeology is a strong background in music. She is currently studying Neanderthal musical culture as well as Palaeolithic campsites. McCormack is project manager and editor for a U. S. archaeological company. Pleistocene Coalition webpage: Articles in PC News: |
 |
| Paulette Steeves | ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ United States Paulette Steeves is a Graduate student and PhD candidate at Binghamton University, New York, under the Clifford D. Clark Fellowship program, 2008-2013, with technical training in molecular anthropology and archaeology. Steeves is First Nations Cree. She was born in the Yukon Territories, Canada, and grew up among the very traditional Salish people of British Columbia. Steeves' website, which is in process, will feature a comprehensive database of nearly 500 archaeological sites in the Americas dating as far back as several hundred thousand years. The database will incorporate not only well-known sites excavated from a European mindset but sites known foremost to indigenous American peoples. The website will also feature plotted maps, migration routes, and sea-level charts in time zones such as 20-40,000 years ago as well as evidence of 60,000 playa lakes in what is now desert area of the U. S. Western plains. Website:Articles in PC News, FIRST ANNIVERSARY ISSUE: |
 |
| Lutz Fiedler | ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Germany State archaeologist, Hesse, Germany. Fiedler is the discoverer of the early Stone Age (Acheulian) figurine known as the "Venus of Tan-Tan" which is regarded as one of the earliest examples of sculpture in archaeology. It was found during excavations on the north bank of the River Draa in Morocco right next to Acheulian handaxes between undisturbed layers dated 300,000-500,000 years old. Fiedler is not averse to questioning the tenets of mainstream archaeology and has even gone so far as to question the emphasis and importance typically placed upon symbolism as a sign of advanced human behavior. Pleistocene Coalition webpage: Articles in PC News: - Does symbolism represent progress?, Jörn Greve and Lutz Fiedler (Issue 2) - At the core of language and culture, Lutz Fiedler (Issue 5) - The Mousterian structures of La Ferrassie: Peyrony's 1934 results revisited, Lutz Fiedler (Issue 13) |
![tn_000_Makuyuni66%[Lutz-fig-fromJorn4-8-10]cropped&grayscaled-h600.jpg](images/tn_000_Makuyuni%5BLutz-fig-fromJorn4-8-10%5Dcrop&grayh600.jpg)  |
The Cosmic Tusk |
¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ United States Subtitle: Abrupt climate change induced by comets and asteroids during human history. This is the website and blog of George Howard, BA, Political Science, co-author of the Firestone et al paper, Evidence for an extraterrestrial impact 12,900 years ago that contributed to the megafaunal extinctions and the Younger Dryas cooling, PNAS, 2007. The full paper is available free online. Howard is an expert on the phenomena known as Carolina Bays including field work and analysis and has also produced several posters on the topic. (Carolina Bays are large oval impressions ranging in size from one to several thousand acres which are found in the Atlantic seaboard states of Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Georgia, and Florida. There are as many as 500,000 Carolina Bays which, for the most part, are all aligned in exactly the same direction.) Howard's blog investigates the Bays and other impact-related phenomena (both proven and unproven) with a focus on the proposed Younger Dryas Event. Howard's background also includes six years as a political staffer in the U.S. Senate as well as being actively involved in the restoration of natural habitats. Website: Articles in PC News: |
![tn_Rex,_NC_LiDAR_DEM_of_Carolina_bays[reduced-to150from300dpi].jpg](images/Rex,_NC_LiDAR_DEM_of_Carolina_bays%5Breduced-to150from300dpi%5D.jpg) Digital elevation map centered on Rex, North Carolina (Robeson County). showing extent of the Carolina Bays in this single 600 sq. km region. Click on the zoomable image to see the remarkable phenomenon of Carolina bays. |
| Michael Cremo |
¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ United States
Michael A. Cremo is a long-time researcher on the topic of human origins and human antiquity. He is best known for his comprehensive volume, Forbidden Archaeology (which he co-authored with the late Richard Thompson, Ph.D, Mathematics), and its follow-up, The Hidden History of the Human Race (The Condensed Edition of Forbidden Archeology), as well as for the controversial television special, The Mysterious Origins of Man, hosted by Charlton Heston. His most recent book is The Forbidden Archeologist: The Atlantis Rising Magazine Columns of Michael A. Cremo. Cremo's most recent broadcast work is the Ancient Aliens television series now in its fourth season. Pleistocene Coalition webpage: Websites:
- The Calaveras skull (Issue 8) - Data blocking by threat and intimidation (Issue 9) - Valsequillo, Forbidden Archeology, and I (Issue 12) |
 |
| Chantal Jègues-Wolkiewiez | ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ France Chantal Jègues-Wolkiewiez, Ph.D, Anthropology, M.A. Psychology, Ethno-astronomy, is a long-time Paleolithic researcher who received her doctorate with special honors and congratulations of the Jury. She has specialized in the time-keeping and astronomical capabilities of the people of Lascaux Cave in France. Jègues-Wolkiewiez' first book, sur les chemins étoilés de Lascaux, presents in a fictional setting her theories about the astronomical knowledge and knowledge of space and time of the people of Lascaux Cave in France. See Blog la table d’Hermes for a review with excerpts in French. The book—in a way similar to Tom Baldwin’s, The Evening and the Morning—challenges the standard view of our ancestors making their abilities and sentiments, not unlike our own, the foundation rather than limitations as taught by mainstream science. Website:Articles in PC News: |  |
| Classic British Archaeology | ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ USA/UK This is the ongoing research project of Richard Dullum and Kevin Lynch focusing on early British archaeology. Their research includes locating rare historical documents and important artifacts presently known only from the literature, as well as the physical locations of important long-forgotten archaeological sites. Dullum is a surgical R.N. working in a large O.R. for the past 30 years as well as a long-time researcher in early human culture. He is also a Vietnam vet with a degree in biology. Lynch is a retired British businessman, archivist and member of the Prehistoric Society of Britain. He lives in Suffolk, UK, at Walton-on-the-Naze near the largest exposed cliffs of the Red Crag Formation. Lynch's specialty is British archaeology of the late 19th and early 20th centuries concentrating on the life and works of J. Reid Moir (pictured at right). Articles in PC News:- The artistic impulse as seen through prehistory: Beads, by Richard Dullum (Issue 3) - Coloring their world in the Ice Age: Pigment use by Paleolithic man, by Richard Dullum (Issue 4) - The Red Crag portrait, an enigmatic shell artifact from the late Pliocene of Great Britain, Richard Dullum (Issue 10) - Ancient tools of the Crag: Lithic evidence for early man in and under the Norwich and Red Crag Formations of Britain, Richard Dullum and Kevin Lynch (Issue 12)
- Ancient tools of the Crag, Part 2, Richard Dullum and Kevin Lynch (Issue 14) - Ancient tools of the Crag, Part 3, Richard Dullum and Kevin Lynch (Issue 14) - Who was Red Crag Man? Richard Dullum (Issue 16) | ![tn_james reid moir[fromV_7-8-11]contrast+20.jpg](images/tn_james%20reid%20moir%5BfromV_7-8-11%5Dcontrast+20.jpg) |
| Babel's Dawn | ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ United States The website of Edmund Blair Bolles, author of Einstein Defiant, Galileo's Commandment, and The Ice Finders: How a Poet, a Professor, and a Politician Discovered the Ice Age. Babel's Dawn is a highly-rated blog about the origins of speech. DISCUSSION FORUM Website: |
 |
| Patagonian Monsters | ¯¯¯¯¯¯ Argentina The website of Austin Whittall, engineer, Vicente López, Buenos Aires, Argentina, and author of Patagonian Monsters: A guide to Patagonia's mythical (and real) monsters and legendary beasts (in press). Whittall's blog contains a fascinating array of postings not only related to the field of cryptozoology but also about the past history of humankind and all manner of anomalies and enigmas.
|  |
| Adrienne Mayor | ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ United States Author of Fossil Legends of the First Americans, The First Fossil Hunters, and many other publications including military history. Mayor's broad-scoped research has been featured on NPR, the BBC, and the History Channel as well as in The New York Times and National Geographic. In addition to researching classical Greek and Roman literature, Mayor also writes about other "'pre-scientific' myths" and parallels to modern scientific methods. Website: |
 |
| The Lost Way of Stones |
¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ United States The Lost Way of Stones is one of the website projects of Joel Weishaus. Weishaus is a writer, literary artist and sculptor, art and literary critic, and editor, as well as Visiting Faculty in Portland State University's Department of English; Portland, Oregon. Over the past thirty years, Weishaus has published books, poems, and essays, along with exhibiting his literary texts in museums. He also reviews poetry and poetics for several newspapers and journals. His online work is hosted by three universities. Among many articles and books, Weishaus wrote the Introduction and Notes for Thomas Merton's, Woods, Shore, Desert. Weishaus' most recent book, The Healing Spirit of Haiku, was co-authored with Jungian psychiatrist, David H. Rosen, McMillan Professor of Analytical Psychology and Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Science at Texas A&M University. Here are a few quotations from The Lost Way of Stones which Weishaus uses as a portal to muse on Palaeolithic peoples and times: "The
Lost Way of Stones is built around indigenous rock art
found in Southern California, including
that of the Chumash Indians who lived mainly along the
Santa Barbara Channel; and
art made
by Shoshonean peoples that is located
on the Naval Air Weapons Station, near Death
Valley, CA., where, contrasting
human creativity with its destructive shadow, it is 'one
of the most spectacular concentrations of rock art sites in North
America.'" "My interest in Amerindian rock art began during a residency at the University of New Mexico's Center for Southwest Research. Cataloging slides of rock art of American Southwest also whet my interest in Aurignacian cave art." "Archaeologist Paul Bahn writes that 'it was the process of journeying to a location and leaving an image there which counted, rather than the image itself, its appearance, degree of completeness, or durability.' However, I would argue that journey and images are entangled in an uncanny web of continuity." "Christine Finn wrote that 'a poetic interpretation of archaeology—and by that I mean one that moves into the metaphysical to consider the essence of a "thing"—should be included in the armory of interpretative tools available to the archaeologist.'" "No matter where we are or when, 'a whole mythology is deposited in our language,' recalling our past as present in the depths of a collective imagination." Website:Rain Taxi 2010 interview: |  Example of Weishaus' superimposition imagery from The Lost Way of Stones the text of which consists of many layers of quotations (or quotes within quotes) to create a similar 'palimpsest' effect only in a literary medium. |
| Luann Udell | ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ United States Luann Udell is a nationally-exhibited artist and writer with a B.A. in art history and an M.A. in education. Her article in Pleistocene Coalition News #9 tells the intriguing story of how she went from the young dream of being an artist to art history and academia and then back to the dream of being an artist again only this time it struck the chord after being inspired by slide projections of Lascaux Cave. "A girl can dream, and so I did. If there was no place in art history for me, then I would invent one. I'd start with Lascaux, move on to ancient Egypt and then maybe hit the Bayeux tapestry. But it didn't happen that way. I began with the Lascaux Cave ... and never left. I had no idea I was entering a whole new life, one filled with imagination, story telling and passion." -Stories from the cave Website: Articles in PC News: - Stories from the cave (Issue 9) |
 |
| Tom Baldwin | ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ United States Tom Baldwin is an award-winning author, educator, and amateur archaeologist living in Utah. He has also worked as a successful newspaper columnist. Baldwin has been actively involved with the Friends of Calico (maintaining the controversial Early Man Site in Barstow, California) since the early days when famed anthropologist Louis Leakey was the site's excavation Director. Calico is the only site in the Western Hemisphere which was excavated by Leakey. Baldwin's recent book, The Evening and the Morning, is an entertaining fictional story based on the true story of Calico Early Man Site. Along with Ice Age adventure stretching from Central Asia to North America, the book touches on many levels including Native American mysticism and a "critical look at the scientific establishment." The setting takes place in two time periods simultaneously, the modern day and a much earlier age 185,000 years ago. Along with Virginia Steen-McIntyre and David Campbell, Baldwin is one of the core editors of Pleistocene Coalition News. Articles in PC News:
- Lake Manix The dried lake bed of Pleistocene-age Lake Manix in California; Photograph by Tom Baldwin (Issue 3) - Reassessing American archaeology: The legacy of Professor George F. Carter (Issue 12) - Breaking the Clovis barrier (Issue 16) |
  |
| Michael Winkler | ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ United States Michael Winkler is a palaeolithic theorist and conceptual installation artist. In addition to being featured in art journals such as Rampike Magazine and in books such as Imagining Language (Rasula & McCaffery, MIT Press, 1998), Winkler's work is also part of the permanent collections in various art and literary institutions in the U.S. and abroad such as the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Library of The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Hans Sohm Archive at the Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany; the King Stephen Museum, Hungary; and the National Institute of Design, in India. Recent exhibitions include: Alignments, an installation at Galeria AT, Academy of Fine Art, Poznan, Poland; a large-scale wall installation in Poetic Positions at the Kassel Art Museum in Germany; and a 20-year survey at the Rosenwald Gallery, Van Pelt-Dietrich Center, University of Pennsylvania (image lower right). On Imagining Language: "What Rasula and McCaffery have accomplished is to put together an astonishing and unprecedented assemblage of the multiple ways in which language has been used or been conceptualized in relation to reality. Imagining Language is a continuous revelation." -Jerome Rothenberg, Professor of Visual Arts and Literature, University of California, San Diego Website: Articles in PC News: |
   |
| Anarchaeology | ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ United States David Campbell is an author/historian and an investigator of geological or manmade altered stone anomalies or large natural structures which may have been used by early Americans. He also has a working knowledge of various issues regarding the peopling of the Americas. Along with Virginia Steen-McIntyre and Tom Baldwin, Campbell is one of the core editors of Pleistocene Coalition News. Website: Articles in PC News: - Anomalies: An example of 'palaeo-smarts 350,000 years ago, by Ishtar Babilu Dingir and David Campbell (Issue 1) - A case of the 'limited hangout', by David Campbell (Issue 2) |
 |
The links in this section are to representative Pleistocene Coalition News articles, artwork, or news
|
Carl L. Johanessen Tony Mitton Neil Steede Paulette Steeves Michael Winkler Ishtar Babilu Dingir Mathieu Gasc Jim Bischoff |
Carrie Malde George Howard Gerhard Neuhäuser Peter Faris Ed Gutentag Ron Alexander Jeffrey Goodman Austin Whittall Ursel Benekendorff |
Thomas Bargatzky Lee Laughlin David Campbell Ren Lallatin Charles W. Naeser Jörn Greve Marshall Payn Kyron O'Doherty |
Richard Dullum Virginia Steen-McIntyre Michael Cremo Ekkehart Malotki Dragos Gheorghiu Kenneth B. Johnston Bill Cote Joel Weishaus Alan Day |
Lutz Fiedler Laura Lyons Jim Harrod Henry D. Wallace Luann Udell Chantal Jègues-Wolkiewiez Kevin Lynch Sam L. VanLandingham |
Tom Baldwin Jean Raab Alan Cannell John Feliks Chris Hardaker Harold E. Malde Joe Liddicoat Juan Armenta |
- Pleistocene Coalition News -
 #1 Oct 2009 Patrick Lyons Virginia Steen-McIntyre David Campbell Ishtar Babilu Dingir Alan Cannell John Feliks |
 #2 Nov-Dec 2009 Jörn Greve Gerhard Neuhäuser Lutz Fiedler Peter Faris Patrick Lyons Beth McCormack David Campbell Laura Lyons Virginia Steen-McIntyre Ishtar Babilu Dingir |
 #3 Jan-Feb 2010 Carl L. Johannessen Richard Dullum Tom Baldwin Jim Harrod Alan Cannell Virginia Steen-McIntyre Ishtar Babilu Dingir John Feliks |
 #4 March-April 2010 Sam VanLandingham Michael A. Cremo Jörn Greve Gerhard Neuhäuser Virginia Steen-McIntyre Alan Cannell Peter Faris Richard Dullum |
#5 May-June 2010 Michael Winkler Matt Gatton Ed Gutentag Alan Cannell Lutz Fiedler Virginia Steen-McIntyre John Feliks |
 #6 July-August 2010 Alan Cannell Sam VanLandingham Matt Gatton Jörn Greve Gerhard Neuhäuser Chris Hardaker Ishtar Babilu Dinger Virginia Steen-McIntyre |
 #7 Sept-Oct 2010 Paulette Steeves Patrick Lyons Sam VanLandingham Chris Hardaker Alan Cannell Matt Gatton Virginia Steen-McIntyre John Feliks |
 #8 Nov-Dec 2010 Ekkehart Malotki Henry Wallace Jim Harrod Ron Alexander Michael A. Cremo Chris Hardaker Alan Cannell Virginia Steen-McIntyre John Feliks |
 #9 Jan-Feb 2011 Ren Lallatin Sam VanLandingham Luann Udell Michael Cremo Alan Cannell Kenneth B. Johnston Virginia Steen-McIntyre John Feliks |
||
 #10 March-April 2011 Richard Dullum Alan Cannell Jörn Greve Gerhard Neuhäuser Dave McIntyre Michael Winkler Virginia Steen-McIntyre John Feliks |
 #11 May-June 2011 Jeffrey Goodman Charles W. Naeser Bill Cote Paulette Steeves Sam VanLandingham Virginia Steen-McIntyre John Feliks |
 #12 July-August 2011 Richard Dullum Kevin Lynch Tom Baldwin Michael Cremo Harold E. Malde Ekkehart Malotki Henry D. Wallace Virginia Steen-McIntyre John Feliks |
||
 #13 September-October 2011 Lutz Fiedler Joe Liddicoat Jim Bischoff Jörn Greve Gerhard Neuhäuser Fred Budinger Ken Johnston Kyron O'Doherty Richard Dullum Kevin Lynch Virginia Steen-McIntyre John Feliks |  #14 November-December 2011 Chantal Jègues-Wolkiewiez |  #15 January-February 2012 Ursel Benekendorff James B. Harrod Chantal Jègues-Wolkiewiez Alan Cannell Juan Armenta Virginia Steen-McIntyre John Feliks | ||
 #16 March-April 2012 George Howard Paulette Steeves Tom Baldwin Richard Dullum Dragos Gheorghiu Jim Bischoff Virginia Steen-McIntyre John Feliks |
- Coming Soon! Pleistocene Coalition Art Gallery -
The Pleistocene Coalition is a group of researchers, scientists and others challenging the tenets of mainstream scientific agendas which are promoted despite empirical evidence to the contrary.
The vision of the Pleistocene Coalition is fully international in scope with a
homepage that will soon be available in many languages.
![tn_bilzingsleben-tony-mitton09[jfcrop].jpg](images/tn_bilzingsleben-tony-mitton09%5Bjfcrop%5D.jpg)
![tn_peking-man_tony-mitton09[jfcrop1_2views-flipped].jpg](images/tn_peking-man_tony-mitton09%5Bjfcrop1_2views-flipped%5D.jpg)
If you have published work which is in line with tenets of the Pleistocene Coalition or would simply like to join us in our challenge please contact the webmaster, John Feliks (right-click)
- Prepare for a journey into a world you never knew existed -
© The Pleistocene Coalition 2009
This page last updated May 8, 2012