Reinoud de Jonge (a Dutch chemist) and Jay Wakefield (an American biologist) have specialized in the study of megalithic culture. They present their analysis of a dozen archaeological sites, showing how many petroglyphs are geographic maps. They show how megalithic monuments provide numerical data revealing megalithic religion and ancient sailing discoveries in the Atlantic. For example, numeric picture writing at Loughcrew, Ireland, deciphered by the authors, reveals that these people gave up their efforts to cross the Ocean west of Greenland in 3200 BC. However, decipherment of the petroglyphs at Dissignac, France, shows that they next explored the earth to the east, where they discovered Australia and Alaska. Subsequently, they found routes across the Atlantic, and built Stonehenge, the monument for the discovery of America.
These decipherments shed light on a number of mysteries in American prehistory, such as the origin of the Olmec civilization, the Michigan copper mines, and the stone chambers of New England. This is the only book providing solid evidence, reasonable explanations, and comprehensive dating for megalithic petroglyphs and monuments. The authored illustrate the predictive power of these decipherments in several instances. This book will fascinate anyone interested in old religions, little-known petroglyphs, ancient seafaring, voyages of discovery, and the prehistory of Europe and America.
Reinoud de Jonge (1949) is a theoretical physical chemist and a teacher at an International School in the Netherlands. In his youth, he read Thor Heyerdahl's stories, and learned of heroic discoveries in the Atlantic Ocean that were not taught in school. His interest in megalithic monuments started in 1991, when he was challenged by an article in a Rotterdam newspaper which claimed, that despite an abundance of factual information, Stonehenge was inexplicable. In 1993 de Jonge's first publication "Stonehenge as Sea Chart" (in Dutch) appeared in the periodical BRES (No.158). In 1996 he published De Stenen Spreken (The Speaking Stones), with Professor Gerard IJzereef, which focused on the important petroglyphs of Dissignac, France. In 1998, in cooperation with the Atlantis Foundaton, he organized an exposition in the Pinkenberg Museum, outside Arnhem, Holland, which presented an interpretation of these petroglyphs. This book, with Jay Wakefield of Kirkland, Washington (USA), is the first time any of this material (now further developed and illustrated) has been printed in English.
