Category: History Publisher: OakChylde Books/Lulu Press Inc.
ISBN-10: 1300144491
Type: Non-Fiction
Pages: 100
Copyright: 10/30/12
ISBN-13: 9781300144496
A new book by Gary R. Varner on the mysterious cup-marked stones and rock art found around the world. Introduction by Vyacheslav Mizin, member of the Russian Geographical Society.
An illustrated analysis of the mysterious cup-marked stones found around the world from Russia to California, Great Britain, Sardenia and Ethiopia. These ancient cup-marked stones have been created since the dawn of time. They appear on every continent and have almost identical characteristics. With so many of them still in existence and so many people aware of them one would think that current day archaeologists would know what they are—what they meant to ancient man. The sad fact is current science doesn’t have anything more than theory, assumption and guess to go on. Were they used for healing? Did they signify the burial of great teachers, warriors and leaders? Were they used as star maps?
This is the story of the author’s great great grandparents, Edward Lewis and Sarah Crosby, who were convicts transported to Van Diemen’s Land in the 1840s. It is told from the perspective of a detective agency searching for what happened to Edward, w