Ancient Infrastructure: Remarkable Roads, Mines, Walls, Mounds, Stone Circles

by William R. Corliss

Despite the cover and title page, the series is the Catalog of Anomalies and is devoted to documenting phenomena in a range of fields that science cannot explain. This is the first volume to concern archaeology. Mere size or mass is not sufficient for mention; the criteria include high degrees of innovation, precocious use of technology and science, apparent lack of purpose, and the unknown identity of the builders. Findings here are used as evidence that the Vikings ventured well beyond Newfoundland, that extensive pre-Columbian contacts existed between the Old and New Worlds, and that vastly superior civilizations preceded our own. A subsequent volume will cover buildings per se. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Genres: Science, Nonfiction, Archaeology, History

406 pages, Hardcover

First published November 1, 1999

About the author

William Roger Corliss was an American physicist and writer who was known for his interest in collecting data regarding anomalous phenomena.
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Reviews

[Blackout · Rating 5 out of 5]

I found it endlessly fascinating

[Allan · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is a compendium of strange things, which is why I like it. Anomalies, you might say, from the fields of architecture and archaeology are presented in brief summary, leaving the reader to frequent conclusions of "huh?" or "wha?" Are these things evidence of undocumented human activity? Broadly minunderstood chronologies? Seemingly impossible overlaps in the space/time continuum? Is time itself not like a river, but more like an ocean, with currents from the past seeping into the present? Anyway, that's the kind of thinking I do, and this book provides plenty of fuel for the fires of my slightly deranged curiosity. Maybe you'll find the same, but first you have to find this book.

Corliss wrote a number of other such catalogs: Geophysical, Astronomical and Geological anomalies are covered in a half-dozen volumes or so, which I have yet to stumble upon like an out-of-place stone which turns out to appear deliberately hewn by unknown hands at an undetermined time. And there I go again.