Barry Fell (born Howard Barraclough Fell June 6, 1917 in Lewes, Sussex, England and died on April 21, 1994, of heart failure in San Diego, California) was Professor of invertebrate zoology at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology. His research was on starfish and sea urchins. Fell is best known however for his highly controversial work in New World epigraphy. June 6 is the 157th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (158th in leap years), with 208 days remaining. ... 1917 (MCMXVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar. ... Lewes is a town in the Lewes district of East Sussex in South East England. ... Sussex is a traditional county in South East England corresponding roughly in area to the ancient Kingdom of Sussex. ... Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: Multiple unofficial anthems Capital London Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Government Constitutional monarchy  - Queen Queen Elizabeth II  - Prime Minister Tony Blair MP Unification    - by Athelstan AD 927  Area    - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK)   50,346 sq... April 21 is the 111th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (112th in leap years). ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by United Nations. ... Flag Seal Nickname: Americas Finest City Location Location of San Diego within San Diego County Coordinates , Government County San Diego Mayor City Attorney         City Council District One District Two District Three District Four District Five District Six District Seven District Eight Jerry Sanders (R) Michael Aguirre Scott Peters Kevin... Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Area  Ranked 3rd  - Total 158,302 sq mi (410,000 km²)  - Width 250 miles (400 km)  - Length 770 miles (1,240 km)  - % water 4. ... Zoology is the biological discipline which involves the study of animals. ... Harvard redirects here. ... NON TECHNICAL AND OF LOW INTELLIGENCE COMPUTER USER CALLING TECH SUPPORT. SEE S.E.C.S. ALSO This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... Subclasses Euechinoidea Superorder Atelostomata Order Cassiduloida Order Spatangoida (heart urchins) Superorder Diadematacea Order Diadematoida Order Echinothurioida Order Pedinoida Superorder Echinacea Order Arbacioida Order Echinoida Order Phymosomatoida Order Salenioida Order Temnopleuroida Superorder Gnathostomata Order Clypeasteroida (sand dollars) Order Holectypoida Perischoechinoidea Order Cidaroida (pencil urchins) Group of black, long-spined Caribbean sea... Carte dAmérique, Guillaume Delisle, c. ... Epigraphy (Greek, επιγραφή - written upon) is the study of inscriptions engraved into stone or other permanent materials, or cast in metal, the science of classifying them as to cultural context and date, elucidating them and assessing what conclusions can be deduced from them. ...

Biography

Fell moved to New Zealand with his mother in the early 1920s, after his father, who was a merchant seaman, died in a shipboard fire. He received his Ph.D. at the University of Edinburgh in 1941, after which he served in the British Army during World War II. In 1946 he returned to New Zealand where he resumed his academic career. In 1964 he joined the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard, where he stayed until voluntary retirement in 1979. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The University of Edinburgh, founded in 1583, is a renowned centre for teaching and research in Edinburgh, Scotland. ... This article is about the year. ... This article is becoming very long. ... 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... 1964 (MCMLXIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1964 calendar). ... This page refers to the year 1979. ...

Epigraphy

Though Fell was an accomplished and respected marine biologist, outside of his academic specialty he is best known for his epigraphy. This interest began early in his career with a study of Polynesian petroglyphs published in 1940. However, his most famous work came much later, starting in 1976 with the publication of the book America BC, in which he argued that Old World scripts can be found on rock surfaces and objects throughout North and South America. This was followed in 1980 by Saga America, and in 1982 by Bronze Age America. Marine life can be very abundant. ... Carving from the ridgepole of a Māori house, ca 1840 Look up Polynesia in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Petroglyphs on Newspaper Rock State Historic Monument, southern Utah, USA Petroglyphs are images incised in rock, usually by prehistoric, especially Neolithic, peoples. ... 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1940 calendar). ... 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ...

As an example of Fell's claims, he and his followers have speculated that Irish monks reached North America centuries before Columbus. This is based on Fell's interpretation, published in 1983, of rock-cut inscriptions located at archaeological sites in West Virginia. According to Fell, these inscriptions narrated the story of Christ's nativity and were written in an old Irish script called Celtic Ogham dating back to the 6th or 8th Century A.D. Christopher Columbus portrait, painted by Alejo Fernándõ between 1505 and 1536. ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Official language(s) English Capital Charleston Largest city Charleston Area  Ranked 41st  - Total 24,244 sq mi (62,809 km²)  - Width 130 miles (210 km)  - Length 240 miles (385 km)  - % water 0. ... Ogham (Old Irish Ogam) was an alphabet used primarily to represent Gaelic languages that was probably often written in wood in early times. ...

Within the academic community, Fell's claims on epigraphy are almost overwhelmingly dismissed. His critics charge him with violating scientific archaeological protocols in order to make fantastic claims of pre-Columbian discoveries to a nonspecialist audience. One example of his linguistic methods is his translation of an inscription containing the word "PIA", found on a rock face on Turkey Mountain near Tulsa, Oklahoma. The most straightforward explanation would be that these were Roman characters, and were either somebody's initials or a word in Spanish meaning a pious, devout woman or a common woman's name in Spanish. However, Fell interpreted it as a Punic word meaning "white", and a nearby marking as a line of Ogham reading "GUIN", also meaning white in P-Celtic, asserting that it was a bilingual inscription [1]. Plato is credited with the inception of academia: the body of knowledge, its development and transmission across generations. ... Image:Turkey mountain tulsa. ... Downtown Tulsa Tulsa is the second-largest city in Oklahoma. ... Official language(s) None Capital Oklahoma City Largest city Oklahoma City Area  Ranked 20th  - Total 69,960 sq mi (181,196 km²)  - Width 230 miles (370 km)  - Length 298 miles (480 km)  - % water 1. ... Punic (from Latin pÅ«nicus) was a Latin version of the term Phoenician. (After the Punic Wars, Romans used this term as an adjective meaning treacherous.) In archaeological and linguistic usage, it refers to the Greco-Roman era culture and dialect of Carthage and its empire as distinct from their...

External links

• Biography

• A Linguistic Analysis of Some West Virginia Petroglyphs

• Is Carrier Celtic?

• Epigraphic Society

• Midwestern Epigraphic Society

• New England Antiquities Research Association

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