An interesting film called Holy Grail in America or will be shown this weekend on the History Channel. This film is based on the book The Hooked X. Key to The Secret History of North America (http://www.hookedx.com) by Scott Wolter who gave a compelling presentation on the same subject at the NEARA Fall 2008 conference. The two-hour documentary will be shown at 8:00pm on Saturday 9/26/09 and at 12:00am on Monday 9/27/09 (in other words midnight Sunday). It is scheduled to be rebroadcast on Saturday 10/3/09 at 5:00pm. NEARA members may recognize some familiar faces in the film.
1)Recently discovered ruins of nine palaces may help explain the collapse of the Mayans
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/columnist/vergano/2009-09-19-mayan-collapse_N.htm
2) Did ancient Britons use a complex network of stones, hillforts and earthworks as a navigation system?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1213400/Ancient-man-used-stone-sat-nav-navigate-country.html
3) Stone shrines and a carved human figure found on a remote Hawaiian island.
http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/20090918/NEWS01/909180346/Ancient+objects+found+on+remote+Mokumanamana++an+archaeological+mystery
4) Examples of how ground penetrating radar has been used in archaeological research.
http://dispatch.com/live/content/science/stories/2009/09/13/buriedtreasure.html?sid=101
5) Did Mayans "play" their pyramids to make music for their rain god?
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327266.200-mayans-played-pyramids-to-make-music-for-rain-god.html
6) More on the research of rock shelters in Ohio.
http://www.columbusdispatch.com/live/content/science/stories/2009/09/20/Sci_Rock_Shelter.ART_ART_09-20-09_G3_RJF37TH.html?sid=101
7) The 10 most puzzling ancient artifacts
http://www.aroundglobe.net/2009/09/10-most-puzzling-ancient-artifacts.html
8) A dolmen decorated with petroglyphs has been found near Villupuram, India
http://www.hindu.com/2009/09/20/stories/2009092052290900.htm
9) A housing plan in Charlestown RI is scrapped after Native American stone structures were found on the proposed site.
http://www.thewesterlysun.com/articles/2009/09/23/news/local/doc4aba1545584c0637394212.txt
10) A description of various fall equinox spiritual traditions. The article mentions burial cairns in Ireland, Stonehenge and the Calendar One site in Vermont.
http://www.religioustolerance.org/fall_equinox2.htm
Keep on freein' up the rock world
Rob