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Summer Solstice 2023
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This is my 10th anniversary issue with PCN
(I’m working to locate a fossil Ibex skull from Iowa which was evaluated in a 1956 paper. I focus on the skull in this PCN article. When I locate it, I want to get it dated and have a DNA analysis done if possible.)

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Winter Solstice Sacrifice

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Is Hunting and Foraging the future of Mankind

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Sacred Rock Art (a reason to save)
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Fall Equinox 2020
(I identified this site many years ago as an Equinox Marker but never got there to document it. Michael Lau documented it for me.)

New articles PCN July-Aug 2020

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Summer Solstice Marker Site 1
Summer Solstice Marker Site 2
Update to Winter Solstice 2019
Cross Quarter
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New articles PC Nov Dec,2019 Pages 9-13

Winter Solstice site 1Winter Solstice site 1 follow up visitWinter Solstice site 2
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New Articles PC July August 2019

Mammoths
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Summer Solstice 2019
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Spring Equinox 2019
Little Girl Project  Other (a Sci Fi short story I recently wrote)
New articles in Pleistocene Coalition
Winter Solstice(Eagle’s Nest)
Video
Eagles
Bears Ears
Very impressive Winter Solstice Marker that Michael Lau did a great job documenting. I calculated what would happen and when and it was relayed to him. There is also a nice horizon marker which I didn’t calculate since I have never been to the site.
Winter Solstice Marker

Pleistocene Coalition Nov Dec 2018
Pages 10-13Pleistocene Coalition Sept Oct 2018

Pages 14-17Pleistocene Coalition July August 2018

Pages 15-18
Pleistoncene Coalition May June 2018
pages 14 & 13

Pleistocene Coalition March April
pages 16-18

Pleistocene Coalition March April

Pages 19-21
2018
https://www.facebook.com/notes/ray-urbaniak/2018/10216487909891325/

 

 

 

 

 

 
Equinox Sunrise   


 Winter Solstice Sunrise                                          

Archaeoastronomy & Archaeology
Books, Articles, Videos & Links

By: Ray Urbaniak

RAY URBANIAK is an engineer by education and profession; however, he is an artist and passionate amateur archeologist at heart with many years of systematic field research on Native American rock art, especially as related to archaeoastronomy, equinoxes and solstices in Utah. He has noted that standard archaeological studies commonly record details of material culture but overlook the sometimes incredible celestial archeological evidence. Urbaniak has also played a major role in documenting and raising concerns for the accelerating vandalism, destruction and theft of Native American rock art. He has brought state representatives to rock art sites with the hope of at least placing labels as protected nearby what he calls “sacred art” sites as a deterrent to vandalism.

Ray is a contributing writer for the Pleistocene Coalition News, and has also written numerous articles published on the Manataka American Indian Council website.

Ray has written several Archaeology books and in 2016 published his first fiction novel based on actual findings.

This new web site has links to many other works, & archaeology facebook posts

Great Eagle, an Ancestral Puebloan Shaman, follows the bread crumbs(corn crumbs), to unravel the story of a Celtic visitation in the distant past. His adventures explore the history of the visitors as well as the mystery of life itself.

The story starts in the year 1257 ce.

Prehistoric Fiction, Native American, Science Fiction, Eco-fiction, 

Petroglyphs, Archaeoastronomy, Ogham, Celtic, Rock Art

 

See Reviews:

Manataka American Indian Council

Pleistocene Coalition Page 6

 

 


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This book delves into recent discoveries of previously unrecorded Solstice, Equinox, and Cross Quarter Markers both petroglyph and horizon markers in Southwest Utah.  Also included are the first ever general guideline for identifying Solstice and Equinox markers.

 

How often do you look at a calendar or in other ways confirm the date?  Well, the Anasazi’s preoccupation with the Sun should come as no surprise! Celestial event recording stone & horizon markers, including petroglyphs & pictographs, have been recognized around the world for a long time.  However, in 1977 when Anna Sofaer discovered an Anasazi “sun dagger” solstice marker at Fajada Butte in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, interest in Native American Solstice markers in the United States skyrocketed!

Manataka web site shopping cart link below may not be staffed any more? Therefore you can ORDER directly from the author.

 


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This is an unabridged version of Anasazi of SW Utah, The Dance of Light and Shadow.
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Ray Urbaniak has been an amateur archeologist most of his life. He spent his professional career as an engineer and consultant. Then took a different direction and became an artist. In March of 2001 he moved to Hurricane Utah where circumstances dictated the writing of this book.

2001 an Anasazi Odyssey

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Ice Age Animals in SW Rock Art
in Pleistocene Coalition News
  • Learn the real story of our Paleolithic ancestors, a cosmopolitan story about intelligent and innovative people – a story unlike that which is promoted by mainstream science
  • Explore and regain confidence in your own ability to think for yourself as a broader range of evidence becomes available to you
  • Join a community not afraid to challenge the status quo. Question with confidence any paradigm promoted as “scientific” that depends upon withholding conflicting evidence from the public in order to appear unchallenged.

Refined thinking regarding Ice Age Animals in Rock Art

I stumbled into writing about my findings of Ice Age Animals depicted in Rock Art.

I have now had a number of years researching Ice Age animals and have refined my observations and thinking based on that research.

Mammoths were believed to have gone extinct 10,000 years ago. Now the latest findings show that Mammoths survived on St Paul Island until 5700 BP in addition to surviving on Wrangel island, Russia until 1700 BC (3700 BP).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrangel_Island

 “Gomphothere Radiocarbon dating of charcoal flecks and burned bone found within the context of the fossils indicated a reliable age of 13,390 years. This made these two gomphotheres the last known gomphotheres in North America.”(fossils have been dated to as recently as 6,060 BP in South America)
http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/june-2011/article/archaeologists-discover-one-of-the-oldest-known-clovis-hunting-sites-in-north-america

 This animal was mistakenly thought to have been extinct long before the arrival of humans in North America, the same is most likely true for some species of Pronghorn antelope which are believed to have gone extinct before the arrival of humans in North America. Some of these pronghorn species and Ibex are not believed to have lived in this area either.

These extinction dates and areas of habitation are simply derived because bones and horns have not been found yet in these areas. Opossums, raccoons, squirrels, porcupines, chipmunks, mice, rats and any other animal that needs calcium eat antlers, horns, and bones.
Rodents chew on antlers for the mineral content and also because of their dentistry.
Rodent teeth grow continually so they need to chew to keep them worn down.

The truth is that this is a very murky area. Few animals are fossilized and few animal and human bones survive long periods. “If a body is exposed to water, insects, open air, or highly acidic soil, then bacteria and fungi will be able to invade that porous network, and seek out the proteins of the collagen within the bones, which causes those bones to break down and eventually crumble to dust!”

https://www.scienceabc.com/humans/skeleton-mystery-dont-bones-decay-decompose.html

I feel that extinction dates and locations are just Educated Guesses.

I had read about and accepted that this species died out before the last ice age and that these species died out at the end of the last ice age. Now I realize that this simply isn’t true!

It is a generalization based on a limited sample of fossils and bones that happen to have been found to date.

Many species of pronghorn that are believed to have gone extinct before the end of the Pleistocene. However, rock art depictions appear to indicate that some of them may have survived much longer, to the end of the Pleistocene or later. Other images appear to confirm the presence of Ibex, Saiga Antelope, and other animals in Southern Utah and Arizona where they are not supposed to have lived.

How many other species survived much longer, in pockets in certain areas, than the dates that have been discovered in the fossil record to date? And I feel it is possible that non-recorded species of pronghorn antelope could have existed as well.

The Tetrameryx shuleri (Shuler’s pronghorn) is an extinct pronghorn which lived until 11,000 -12,000 years ago. Its existence is based on scant remains at 5 sites (possibly only 3 sites in Texas since horns were not found at the other 2 sites)! Therefore, it could easily have survived longer, and begs the question of how many other varieties existed which haven’t as yet been found? Some of these Antilocaprids that survived near the end of or after the end of the ice age may in fact be depicted in rock art despite an absence of fossil evidence.

These dates are only based on what has been found to date, and as you can see from the above discussion, these dates are constantly changing as new evidence becomes available. I submit that these petroglyphs should be considered new evidence!

Petroglyph and pictograph images appear to be a good indicator as to which animals existed or survived longer than is presently believed.

I accept that many other depictions of extinct animals were passed down through oral tradition but the detail of some pictographs and petroglyphs appear to indicate a personal intimate knowledge of these animals.  The inhabitants of this area were either familiar with them before these same people migrated here from Beringia, and or they lived with these animals in this area!

Articles by Ray Urbaniak in PC News:
 News item Ray Urbaniak:
-Recommended article: Aboriginal memories of inundation of the Australian coast dating from more than 7000 years ago (Issue 44)
http://pleistocenecoalition.com/newsletter/november-december2016.pdf
-Recommended articles: Articles providing more evidence of oral histories passed down across millennia (Issue 45)
http://pleistocenecoalition.com/newsletter/january-february2017.pdf


Fiction by Ray Urbaniak overview:

The Shaman and the Cult of Ogham Page 6

 

 

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Articles published on Manataka American Indian Council web site.

For thousands of years this sacred site was known as Ma-na-ta-ka®(Place of Peace – the Unbroken Circle). Elders of many nations from the four corners of Turtle Island made long pilgrimages to this magnificent place to perform ceremonies and share the gift of the curative waters called No-wa-sa-lon (Breath of Healing). They received other special gifts like healing stones, healing clay and healing herbs to enhance their journey through life.

Read the fascinating and true saga of Manataka® and see how hundreds of tribes, Spanish Conquistadors, two American Presidents, Mayan and Lakota spiritual leaders, and the Rainbow Woman all played a role in the exciting Story of Manataka“.

The Manataka America Indian Council® exists to preserve and protect this sacred place. Welcome to our village! Please come into our lodge and enjoy the gifts we have for you.

Please note: Manataka web site is no longer on-line(I will leave links up in case the site is reactivated. I suspect the founder and financial supporter has passed away.)
Click on pdf’s at bottom of page to view articles

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 Links to other Articles
& Findings
Significance of the T Shape (This appeared in Ancient American Magazine, Volume 10 Number 62, pages 26-29)
Mammoth Panel(attempt at dating)  I posted this because the technique I came up with is sound, but in this case there were too many variables
 Solstice Videos on Facebook Winter Solstice and Summer Solstice

 

 

Cross Quarter Video (I originally identified and photographed this marker with a camcorder. Todd Ellis and Shelby Meinkey did a much better digital version. Scroll down to Shelby’s video.)