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
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.
--------------------------------------------------------------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
Image: Sears
Image : Chalfant
Mojave Desert glyphs
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
Image: Karlgren (GSR)
Image: Wieger
Mojave Desert paired glyphs
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
Image: Sears
Mojave Desert glyph
Chinese Zōng (ancestor) Pictogram vs. Mojave Desert Glyph
(Calculated probability for a chance similarity: P = 0.05)
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Supplemental Report #2
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