SUPPLEMENTAL REPORT #3
ANCIENT CHINESE ROCK WRITING IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA:
DEFINING THE LUNAR MONTH

Abstract:  In this study, a unique set of petroglyphs located in the Mojave Desert of southeastern California is analyzed and deciphered as Chinese writing. Together, these images are interpretable as being an ancient astronomical message defining the monthly lunar cycle as the sum of three 10-day periods. Along with other evidence, epigraphic and statistical analysis of these images leads compellingly to the conclusion that literate Chinese individuals were present in western North America approximately 2,500 years ago, and that some of the three-ring concentric-circle rock art motifs found in the American Southwest – as well as around the world – may represent the set of three ten-day weeks employed in ancient times to describe a lunar month. Curiously, long ago both the Chinese and certain Native American groups embraced such a calendric system. Collectively, this set of archaic petroglyphs implies an early Chinese transpacific transfer of intellectual property.

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