Asiatic Echoes:

The Identification of Ancient Chinese

Pictograms in pre-Columbian North

American Rock Writing

Supplemental Report #2

THE ANCIENT CHINESE WRITINGS

OF THE MOJAVE DESERT

by

John A. Ruskamp, Jr., Ed.D.

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The Ancient Chinese Rock Writings of the Mojave Desert

By John A. Ruskamp, Jr.

Copyright © 2016

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The Ancient Chinese Writings of the Mojave Desert

John A. Ruskamp, Jr., Ed.D.

© 2016

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This, the second supplemental report of the ongoing study "Asiatic Echoes," documents and translates

sixteen ancient, identifiable, and highly complex Chinese script images that were pecked into the rocks of

a remote Southern California desert canyon approximately 2500 years ago. Significantly, many of these

identifiable petroglyphs are of a style matching that of ancient Chinese oracle-bone writings, a long

forgotten form of writing associated with China's Shang Dynasty (1500 - 1046 BC).

In all of human history, there is no record of a writing system being invented more than one time.

Consequently, this collection of uniquely identifiable scripts provides demonstrable and prodigious proof

that long ago, and in pre-Columbian times, literate Chinese explorers were present in North America.

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In a small canyon located in a remote section of Southern California's Mojave Desert reside no

fewer than sixteen long overlooked and until now, unrecognized ancient Chinese script

petroglyphs. Significantly, knowledge of the distinctive ancient oracle-bone style of Chinese

writing displayed by many of these Mojave Desert pictogram-glyphs was lost to humanity

following the fall of China's Shang Dynasty in 1046 BC. Only relatively recently, in AD 1899 at

Anyang, China, was oracle-bone script subsequently rediscovered and deciphered. Consequently,

these Mojave Desert, identified and confirmed by multiple world-renown sinologists as having

forms matching known ancient Chinese characters, are reliably readable and datable.

Of no small importance to the serious historian or rock art researcher, the repatination levels

evident upon these ancient Chinese symbols indicate that they are not recent specious

fabrications. Demonstrably these glyphs were created long before oracle-bone script resurfaced

in AD 1899 and, as no form of writing has ever been invented more than once in human history,

there is only one credible explanation for the existence of these images… that is, approximately

2,500 years ago, and shortly following the demise of China's Shang empire, literate Chinese

individuals were in North America and created these historically significant and previously

overlooked messages.

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As part of the ongoing independent study of "Asiatic Echoes", a statistical comparison was made

of the line strokes comprising each of these petroglyphs with those of known ancient Chinese

pictograms. The results of these calculations, generated by application of the Jaccard Index of

Similarity, reveal that the apparent similarity of each of these petroglyph and script pairings

could only be credited to an unrelated chance event less than one percent of the time, and in most

of the cases this value is less than one in a thousand. Collectively, the probability for the chance

occurrence of all sixteen of these identifiable symbols being independently invented, and at a

single location, is then less than one chance out of 10-40

. That is, the likelihood that these sixteen

identifiable ancient Chinese symbols were created independently, apart from knowledge of

ancient Chinese writing, is less likely than the chance of picking up one particular grain of sand

from off the whole surface of the earth! On the following pages are photographs of the sixteen Mojave Desert petroglyphs discussed

above, each accompanied by an illustration of its corresponding ancient Chinese script pictogram.

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The Mojave Desert Chinese Pictogram-glyphs

Jiàn pictogram Mojave Desert glyph Image: Sears

Chinese Jiàn (look / see) Pictogram vs. Mojave Desert glyph (Calculated probability for a chance similarity: P < 0.001)

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Gān pictogram Mojave Desert glyph Image: Sears

Chinese Gān (dry) Pictogram vs. Mojave Desert glyph (Calculated probability for a chance similarity: P = 0.01)

Guó pictogram Wáng Mojave Desert glyphs Image: Sears Image : Chalfant

Chinese composite Guó (nation) and Wáng (king) Pictograms

vs. conjoined Mojave Desert glyphs (Calculated probability for a chance similarity: P < 0.001)

Jiŭ pictogram Mojave Desert glyph Image: Sears

Chinese Jiŭ (liquor) Pictogram vs. Mojave Desert glyph (Calculated probability for a chance similarity: P < 0.001)

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Zhù pictogram Mojave Desert glyph Image: Sears

Chinese Zhù (granary) Pictogram vs. Mojave Desert glyph (Calculated probability for a chance similarity: P = 0.01)

Mŭ pictogram Mojave Desert glyph Image: Sears

Chinese Mŭ (mother) Pictogram vs. Mojave Desert glyph (Calculated probability for a chance similarity: P < 0.001)

Fū pictogram Mojave Desert glyph Image: Sears

Chinese Fū (man) Pictogram vs. Mojave Desert glyph (Calculated probability for a chance similarity: P < 0.001)

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Gān pictogram Mojave Desert glyph Image: Chinese Text Project

Chinese Gān (sweet) Pictogram vs. Mojave Desert glyph (Calculated probability for a chance similarity: P = 0.001)

Zhōu pictogram Mojave Desert glyph Image: Karlgren (GSR)

Chinese Zhōu (boat) Pictogram vs. Mojave Desert glyph (Calculated probability for a chance similarity: P = 0.01)

Bāng pictogram Mojave Desert glyph

Image: Karlgran (GSR)

Chinese Bāng (state or nation) Pictogram vs. Mojave Desert glyph (Calculated probability for a chance similarity: P < 0.001)

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Dāo pictogram Cì pictogram Mojave Desert paired glyphs Image: Karlgren (GSR) Image: Wieger

Chinese Composite Dāo (knife) & Cì (thorn) Pictograms

Meaning "to stab" vs. Mojave Desert paired glyphs (Calculated probability for a chance similarity: P < 0.001)

Tián pictogram Mojave Desert glyph Image: Karlgren (GSR)

Chinese Tián (field) Pictogram vs. Mojave Desert glyph (Calculated probability for a chance similarity: P < 0.001)

Seal era Zhōng pictogram Mojave Desert glyph Image: Wieger

Chinese Zhōng (middle) Pictogram vs. Mojave Desert glyph (Calculated probability for a chance similarity: P = 0.001)

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Cè pictogram Mojave Desert glyph Image: Sears

Chinese Cè (book) Pictogram vs. Mojave Desert Glyph (Calculated probability for a chance similarity: P < 0.001)

Zōng pictogram Mojave Desert glyph

Image: Sears

Chinese Zōng (ancestor) Pictogram vs. Mojave Desert Glyph (Calculated probability for a chance similarity: P = 0.05)

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