Asiatic Echoes

For centuries, researchers have been debating if, in pre-Columbian times, meaningful exchanges between the indigenous peoples of Asia and the Americas might have taken place. Many sinologists have written positively on this topic, yet, so far, no conclusive proof has been put forth establishing such trans-Pacific contact as a historical event.On these pages the reader will find written evidence that in pre-Columbian times multiple meaningful intellectual exchanges took place between...
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For centuries, researchers have been debating if, in pre-Columbian times, meaningful exchanges between the indigenous peoples of Asia and the Americas might have taken place. Many sinologists have written positively on this topic, yet, so far, no conclusive proof has been put forth establishing such trans-Pacific contact as a historical event.On these pages the reader will find written evidence that in pre-Columbian times multiple meaningful intellectual exchanges took place between Asiatic and North American populations. Using the novel integration of the legal construct of substantial similarity with the comparative statistical tool of Jaccard's Index of Similarity, the Chinese script origin of twenty-four North American petroglyphs is firmly established. In each instance, comparative analytical evidence is presented for the sometimes-obvious similarity of each glyph's line-strokes with the corresponding features of an equally ancient and complex Chinese script pictogram. Here is epigraphic proof that Asiatic explorers not only reached the Americas, but that they interacted positively with Native North American people long before any European expedition to the continent began.