Roman coins from the 1st-4th centuries AD were found along the Ohio River near Louisville, KY. The coins were assessed by David Wells, who organized them into two sets. The first set contained 8 coins, with images of the obverse and reverse sides of each. The second set contained 11 coins, also with images of the obverse and reverse sides listed for each coin.
This is a collection of photos of curious stone circles in the middle of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Were they part of ancient travelers who used the shortest route between Lakes Superior and Michigan? Are they foundations? Ceremonial? Or simply cisterns to gather and hold water?
This is a collection of photos of curious stone circles in the middle of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Were they part of ancient travelers who used the shortest route between Lakes Superior and Michigan? Are they foundations? Ceremonial? Or simply cisterns to gather and hold water?
What mysteries one may find while searching at close range, the waters of the earth...using Google Earth! Here are some things that are not easily explained. EnJoy! Love, Judy
My son works in a place that rebuilds-restores small to humongous turbines. During a recent tour, every place I looked, my artist eye saw patterns, shadows, and interesting details. So these shots are the result of my visit.
I love to find patterns in shadows and forms in nature. Sometimes playing with them to have an entirely different look. Nature is quite dramatic and artistic herself, without much help, but it's fun to share the creativity with her.
As an artist, my eyes, my very soul sees art in just about everything. There's art in nature in it's patterns, its details, its colors and textures and in its light and shadow. I like to frame it, manipulate it, enhance it, find it, and shoot it with my camera. And I like to share it. EnJoy! love, Judy
My mother, Helen Johnson, and I have collected old magazines (and other paper goodies) for many years. We love illustration, cover art and images. Here's a collection of ROMANCE as seen on vintage covers and story illustrations and advertising.
I've played with a 1959 ballet paper doll, with costume changes, to see if it looks sort of animated. I put two of the four dolls from the Whitman set onto a curtained stage. Well here goes....
It all started with my Great Grandma's framed ribbon doll. Her daughter-my Grandma Heath- gave it to me. Then her daughter- my mother- bought me some more, then I bought more, and I follwed them online, so now I have all these wonderful images to share with you.
A presentation of my collection of Easter cards, from 1900 through the early 1950s. Images of Easter Crosses, Easter Eggs, Children, Bunnies, Chicks, and more. Nostalgic and fun to view. May be used for community programs, schools, museums, libraries, service groups, but not for resale or reproduction. Copyrighted, Judy M Johnson, 2011
Moving a 28 ton boulder of pure copper is quite an adventure. This is the story of why on earth anyone would want to move such a beast! AAPS/Ancient Artifact Preservation Society and hundreds of friends want to save it from being sold for commercial melt down. As far as we know this is the largest natural glacial "float" copper in the world, and it's a specimen worth saving.
Who was Prince Madoc, and what is his connection to the famed and fabled ( is it?) King Arthur? Film-maker, Lee Pennington is pursuing evidence on these people...in NORTH AMERICA! Dr. Brenda Franey, fellow researcher on the topics has shared material with him.
Speaker at 6th Annual Conf. on Ancient America, Sept. 2010, Marquette Michigan: Sam Osmanagich of the Bosnian Pyramids enthralled us with his steady forward energy toward clearing off the outsides and inside tunnels of the world's largest pyramids. New discoveries there: a LAKE inside a pyramid, measurable energy frequencies in the tunnels (all volunteer workers want to be doing that job as it feels so good) Sam believes there were three distinct cultures there, as far back as 34,000 years (dated evidence.) First culture was megalithic peoples [perhaps between ice ages 3 & 4,] who cut monstrous stones. 2nd culture built the pyramids and tunnels- perhaps as healing centers. This was a long culture covering many thousands of years. 3rd culture would have come in after end culture had disappeared after a cataclysm of some sort...another glacial age? a comet? These peoples seemed afraid of the pyramids, removed all artifacts and filled the tunnels and sealed them off. And cleaning out the tunnels is one of the humongous jobs the volunteers are doing. At the pace they are going, of about 500 volunteers a year, Sam says they could have The Pyramid of the Sun fully revealed in a thousand years. They need more help! And you could be one of them. One of our members, Marta Thomas is organizing a group trip to work on the pyramids, spring 1011. Contact us if interested, via our website- www.aapscopper.org
An open invitation was placed on Facebook for people to make designs to "dress-a-doll" by Judy M Johnson. Two months were alloted to submit designs. None were judged or critiqued, only enjoyed. We received contributions from ages 4 to 88, and from the USA, Australia, Finland, Denmark, and Estonia.
My mother, Helen C Johnson, is a talented designer with a specialty of cutting pretty papers and forming those pieces into amazing costumes for paper dolls. This is a sampling of her work. She has made another batch to sell at the 2010 paper doll convention...the last batch. She is 85 as of May 2010, and says she is done making these costumes now. So this is a way to preserve and share them.
As as publisher of paper dolls, I have access to hundreds of vintage titles. I love to use this method of sharing larger images to lovers of paper dolls and movie stars. As my website www.papergoodies.com can only show them quite small.
Being a paper doll publisher, I have and borrow hundreds of paper dolls. Here in the space alloted, I have selected some of my favorite ones. I haven't even included movie stars! That's another whole show itself. EnJoy! Judy M Johnson www.papergoodies.com
As a paper doll publisher, I am working with fashion and paper dolls every day. Here I have endeavoured to match paper doll clothes with fashions of the same time period. As I have tons of fashion reference, I thought it would be easy. Not so. But it was a fun challenge. Judy M Johnson
Part 8 of AAPS Paradigm Education Project.
by Dr. Myron Paine,
MANY (>24) OTHER PEOPLE
RED PAINT PEOPLE, 7500 BP
KING WODEN, 3700 BP
ABU BA KARI, 700 BP
Part 7 of AAPS Paradigm Education Project:
America's Adena MoundBuilders, By Ida Jane Gallagher. Author of Contact with Ancient America, Epigrapher since 1982 and
colleague of many advocates of ancient America for 30 years.
Part 6 of AAPS Paradigm Teaching Project: COPPER TRAIL by Fred Rydholm, with Script and Photo selection by Larry Stroud. This shows how millions of tons of copper may have been found, extracted and moved from Michigan's Upper Peninsula, out waterways, and across oceans to other civilizations, in ancient days.
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What mysteries one may find while searching at close range, the waters of the earth...using Google Earth! Here are some things that are not easily explained. EnJoy! Love, Judy
My son works in a place that rebuilds-restores small to humongous turbines. During a recent tour, every place I looked, my artist eye saw patterns, shadows, and interesting details. So these shots are the result of my visit.
I love to find patterns in shadows and forms in nature. Sometimes playing with them to have an entirely different look. Nature is quite dramatic and artistic herself, without much help, but it's fun to share the creativity with her.
As an artist, my eyes, my very soul sees art in just about everything. There's art in nature in it's patterns, its details, its colors and textures and in its light and shadow. I like to frame it, manipulate it, enhance it, find it, and shoot it with my camera. And I like to share it. EnJoy! love, Judy
My mother, Helen Johnson, and I have collected old magazines (and other paper goodies) for many years. We love illustration, cover art and images. Here's a collection of ROMANCE as seen on vintage covers and story illustrations and advertising.
I've played with a 1959 ballet paper doll, with costume changes, to see if it looks sort of animated. I put two of the four dolls from the Whitman set onto a curtained stage. Well here goes....
It all started with my Great Grandma's framed ribbon doll. Her daughter-my Grandma Heath- gave it to me. Then her daughter- my mother- bought me some more, then I bought more, and I follwed them online, so now I have all these wonderful images to share with you.
A presentation of my collection of Easter cards, from 1900 through the early 1950s. Images of Easter Crosses, Easter Eggs, Children, Bunnies, Chicks, and more. Nostalgic and fun to view. May be used for community programs, schools, museums, libraries, service groups, but not for resale or reproduction. Copyrighted, Judy M Johnson, 2011
Moving a 28 ton boulder of pure copper is quite an adventure. This is the story of why on earth anyone would want to move such a beast! AAPS/Ancient Artifact Preservation Society and hundreds of friends want to save it from being sold for commercial melt down. As far as we know this is the largest natural glacial "float" copper in the world, and it's a specimen worth saving.
Who was Prince Madoc, and what is his connection to the famed and fabled ( is it?) King Arthur? Film-maker, Lee Pennington is pursuing evidence on these people...in NORTH AMERICA! Dr. Brenda Franey, fellow researcher on the topics has shared material with him.
Speaker at 6th Annual Conf. on Ancient America, Sept. 2010, Marquette Michigan: Sam Osmanagich of the Bosnian Pyramids enthralled us with his steady forward energy toward clearing off the outsides and inside tunnels of the world's largest pyramids. New discoveries there: a LAKE inside a pyramid, measurable energy frequencies in the tunnels (all volunteer workers want to be doing that job as it feels so good) Sam believes there were three distinct cultures there, as far back as 34,000 years (dated evidence.) First culture was megalithic peoples [perhaps between ice ages 3 & 4,] who cut monstrous stones. 2nd culture built the pyramids and tunnels- perhaps as healing centers. This was a long culture covering many thousands of years. 3rd culture would have come in after end culture had disappeared after a cataclysm of some sort...another glacial age? a comet? These peoples seemed afraid of the pyramids, removed all artifacts and filled the tunnels and sealed them off. And cleaning out the tunnels is one of the humongous jobs the volunteers are doing. At the pace they are going, of about 500 volunteers a year, Sam says they could have The Pyramid of the Sun fully revealed in a thousand years. They need more help! And you could be one of them. One of our members, Marta Thomas is organizing a group trip to work on the pyramids, spring 1011. Contact us if interested, via our website- www.aapscopper.org
An open invitation was placed on Facebook for people to make designs to "dress-a-doll" by Judy M Johnson. Two months were alloted to submit designs. None were judged or critiqued, only enjoyed. We received contributions from ages 4 to 88, and from the USA, Australia, Finland, Denmark, and Estonia.
My mother, Helen C Johnson, is a talented designer with a specialty of cutting pretty papers and forming those pieces into amazing costumes for paper dolls. This is a sampling of her work. She has made another batch to sell at the 2010 paper doll convention...the last batch. She is 85 as of May 2010, and says she is done making these costumes now. So this is a way to preserve and share them.
As as publisher of paper dolls, I have access to hundreds of vintage titles. I love to use this method of sharing larger images to lovers of paper dolls and movie stars. As my website www.papergoodies.com can only show them quite small.
Being a paper doll publisher, I have and borrow hundreds of paper dolls. Here in the space alloted, I have selected some of my favorite ones. I haven't even included movie stars! That's another whole show itself. EnJoy! Judy M Johnson www.papergoodies.com
As a paper doll publisher, I am working with fashion and paper dolls every day. Here I have endeavoured to match paper doll clothes with fashions of the same time period. As I have tons of fashion reference, I thought it would be easy. Not so. But it was a fun challenge. Judy M Johnson
Part 8 of AAPS Paradigm Education Project.
by Dr. Myron Paine,
MANY (>24) OTHER PEOPLE
RED PAINT PEOPLE, 7500 BP
KING WODEN, 3700 BP
ABU BA KARI, 700 BP
Part 7 of AAPS Paradigm Education Project:
America's Adena MoundBuilders, By Ida Jane Gallagher. Author of Contact with Ancient America, Epigrapher since 1982 and
colleague of many advocates of ancient America for 30 years.
Part 6 of AAPS Paradigm Teaching Project: COPPER TRAIL by Fred Rydholm, with Script and Photo selection by Larry Stroud. This shows how millions of tons of copper may have been found, extracted and moved from Michigan's Upper Peninsula, out waterways, and across oceans to other civilizations, in ancient days.
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2. “The Ohio River is the most beautiful river
on earth. Its current gentle, waters clear,
and bosom smooth and unbroken by rocks
and rapids, a single instance only
excepted.”—Thomas Jefferson
In January or February of 2009, David Wells, Charlestown, IN found 8 Roman Coins along the Ohio River.
On June 14, 2009, he found 11 more Roman Coins 20 miles east of the first site.
Jefferson quote
First, comment or two about the Ohio River. Nearly a thousand miles long, running from Pittsburgh to Cairo, IL where it meets the Mississippi River. The Indians did not consider the river ending at the Mississippi but felt it was the same river that continued on to the Gulf of Mexico. A major water road into the interior. At Louisville, KY, the Falls of the Ohio: the stopping point going both ways!
Ohio River looking toward Indian
Ohio River from Kentucky Shore
This is 14 mile creek. Legends of the Backbone are connected to the Welsh Prince Madoc.
Roman Coins found in 1963 during the building of Sherman Minton Bridge. Two Wells collections found in January and June of 2009.
Sherman Minton Bridge, bottom is New Albany, IN. Coins found digging pier for bridge.
Site of Wells first set of coins
Site of Wells 2nd set of coins, 1 mile east of Bethlehem, IN
Eight coins found in first set
Can make out the name Claudius II who reigned 268-270 AD, coin on right.
11 coins found in second set
Notice the (radiates) sun rays on the obverse of these two coins. Radiates only occurred during the 3rd Century, 215 AD to 295 AD . All the small coppery radiates were likely struck between 260 and 295 AD.
One of the things I heard concerning Wells finding two sets of Roman coins is that such a thing is likely suspicious because the odds are against someone finding any Roman coins, much less two sets in one year!
This article by BBC describes coins found in Wales in 2008
This man, also using a metal detector, found two hoards of Roman coins in Wales.
You remember coin # 2, Wells Set I, was of Claudius II. Likewise one of the Sherman Minton Bridge coins is of Claudius II.
Notice the radiates here, indicating the 3rd Century AD
This excellent report by Jim Scherz concerns 10 coins found by Fred Kingman on the Wisconsin River in the early 1970’s. On of the coins in this collection is of Claudius II.
Jeremiah Epstein’s article in the February 1980 issue of Current Anthropology is considered the definitive article on pre-Columbian coins in America.
Epstein discusses 40 Pre-Columbian coins found in America between 1533 and 1977. I find it interesting that of the 40, 32 are Roman coins.
Page 2, TABLE 1, Epstein
Epstein comments: “The minting dates do not support the diffusionist position. If there had been contact through European exploration, we would expect it to have been more frequent in one period of Greek or Roman history than in another. Similarly, if the coins came to the New World as a result of drift voyages, the incidence of drifts should correlate more or less with periods of intensive Roman shipping.”
Miguel Rivera Dorado, Dept. of anthropology in Madrid, Spain , praises Epstein and says while a relatively great number of ancient coins have been found, in contrast, there is a lack of other Roman objects (he mentions swords, for example, among other things). I was able to find descriptions of five different Roman swords which were found.
Top sword, same as the Buddy Lemon sword, identified as Roman Sword.
River Systems of US.
Swords found: Norwood (near Cincinnati), Paducah, KY; St. Louis, Mo; Nashville, TN; St. Paul, MN. The swords and coins were found along waterways and doesn’t appear to be collectors dropping coins and artifacts.
So what does all this mean? I believe It means that traders using Roman currency were here and, through whatever circumstances, left these coins behind. With so many coins found, along the super highways of ancient times, the rivers, it’s hard to imagine another scenario to match the evidence.