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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font face="Calibri">Following up on my earlier response to John Ruskamp, I see that my predictions concerning reactions in Korea were realized even before I made them. Please see the news link below from Yonhap News:</font></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font face="Calibri">A Korean independent researcher based in Chicago (Yu Kwang-</font><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">ŏ</span><font face="Calibri">n) has interpreted John Ruskamp’s work to indicate that the
glyphs found in various sites in North America were made by people of Shang, who were Dongyi people, whom he claims to be the ancestors of modern Koreans (or at least closely associated with them). This represents two major fallacies, the first being that
the Shang were Dongyi (they were not) and the second that the Dongyi of Shang-Zhou times were the same as the later Han-period Dongyi (they were not). The implication here is that the people who made these glyphs were ancient Koreans. Beyond this, according
to Mr. Yu, they also were the founders of Olmec civilization. </font></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font face="Calibri">Best,</font></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font face="Calibri">Mark Byington</font></p>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Koreanstudies <koreanstudies-bounces@koreanstudies.com> on behalf of John <ruskampj@hotmail.com><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, March 8, 2017 11:04:19 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> koreanstudies@koreanstudies.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [KS] Ancient Asiatic Scripts in America - a research report</font>
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<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Greetings!</span></p>
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<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">I recently joined and I find the discussions very informative. Now I would like to share a short paper</span></p>
<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">detailing the presence of ancient Asiatic scripts written upon the rocks of Southwestern America with the members.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">From the style of these script characters, the syntax of the messages</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">, and the level of weathering upon them</span></p>
<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">a date of about 2500 YBP is most reasonable. A copy of this research report attached to this email.</span></p>
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<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Please note the following quote from the larger research manuscript </span><i><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Asiatic Echoes - The Identification of Ancient </span></i></p>
<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><i>Chinese Pictograms in pre-Columbian North American Rock Writing, 3rd edition
</i>to which this paper is the first supplemental report.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">"While a number of authors have provided secondary evidence for early pre-Columbian visits by the Chinese to the Americas, it
is equally possible that other Asiatic populations, such as the Japanese, Koreans, and Vietnamese, who employ</span><i><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
</span></i><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">styles of writing derived from Chinese script, were responsible for at least some of these cultural exchanges."</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">This is my first attempt to post an item to the site. Any help you may be able to provide will be greatly appreciated. T</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">hanks! </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">John A. Ruskamp, Ed.D., M.B.A.</span></p>
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