In the article referenced here, Ross Perfect's "interpretation" of
Polynesian rock markings is essentially a claim that the crude markings
discussed were left by Greek navigators who came to Pitcairn Island
(one of most remote parts of the Pacific, possibly not even settled by
Polynesians by the proposed date of 233 BC.) The article is not very
convincing to me, though I am not a specialist in Greek epigraphy,
simply because it stretches credulity past the breaking point to think
that Greeks would have had any reason to come to such a place, that they
would have had the ability to get there, or that they would have
forgotten their normal alphabet along the way.
You can see crude rock art which looks somewhat like this in many parts
of the world, which could with equal credibility (i.e. not much
credibility at all) be construed as Greek writing.
Perfect's article is based on the work of Barry Fell, who was a
distinguished zoologist, but his writings on the meaning of American
rock carvings and his earlier studies on Polynesian rock art are not
taken very seriously by specialists in archeology or rock art.
--Jim McCulloch
On 12/28/10 10:56 PM, R Wall wrote:
Hi all,
Found the following on the eclipse of the Moon on Pitcairn Island in
233 B.C. They say that they were able to determine the longitude of
Pitcairn Island from the eclipse of the Moon and this was in 233 B.C.
http://www.21stcenturysciencetech.com/articles/Pitcairn_Island.pdf
Roderick Wall.
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