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Native & Early America Time Line 1 After the Ice: Northeast American Land & First Peoples 2010 Keynote Address on Native New England Ecology Stone-works, Corn & Calendars Time Line 2 The Transatlantic, 1400s - 1621 The Medlyn Site A Connecticut Native Scholar’s Dig, by Fox Running Gosnold, 1602 Edited by Karle Schlieff Transatlantic Ways Before 'Pilgrim' Arrival Time Line 3 1621-1624:  Transatlantic Ways & 'Pilgrim' Departures 2004 Keynote Address on the 1623 "Weymouth Massacre" Meet Thomas Morton of Merrymount, 1624-1630 New English Canaan, Book II: 'A Description of the Beauty of the Country, with her Natural Endowments' (1637) Discover America's First Poet in English Reading the Revels The Riddle of May Day in New English Canaan Merrymount:  A True Adventure Comedy (screenplay for a someday-film) The Maypole of Merrymount:  A Young Reader's Story of Early America *** ILLUSTRATOR WANTED! *** Revels at Merrymount Today and Governor Deval Patrick's Proclamation: May 1st is Thomas Morton Day in Massachusetts! Time Line 4 1630 Through The Pequot War Mystic Fiasco: How the Indians Won The Pequot War First Rhode Island An African-American Regiment in the American Revolution Still Here Native New England Today, Support Parole for Iron Thunderhorse, & Poems by Little Owl NATIVE & EARLY AMERICAN SOURCES ANCIENT LIGHTS FILM ARCHIVE Morton (1992), Nani (2000), Rare Interviews, Clips & More! MAYPOLE HILL An Early American Discussion Forum

Minoan Crete Calendar House  Home Page 1 Matching Discoveries Clues to a Knossos Calendric Cycle 2 Into the Labyrinth The Bull-Leap Fresco, & Elements of a Minoan Great Year Calendar 3 Sign & Countersign The Fresco Border’s Lunar/Solar Operations 4 Forms of Time Seasons, X, Great Year & Saros, Relatives 5 Astronomy & Sacred Animals Problems, Politics & Symbols of the Cycle 6 Griffin & Labrys Guides to the Journey Beyond 7 Kinship & Cosmology Great Year Signs & Festivals in New Palace Times 8 Calendar & Kingship A Labyrinth to Contain the Minotaur 9 Continuities From Crete & Cyprus to Palestine Coda: Homer's Calendar, Classical Curiosities, & Marshack’s Critical Review SOURCES Cited & Suggested Ariadne’s Brother: A Novel on the Fall of Bronze Age Crete (1996) People of the Sea: A Novel of the Promised Land (In Progress) THE WEST COURTYARD A Minoan Discussion Forum

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