The Tucson Artifacts: An Album of Photography with Transcriptions and Translations of the Medieval Latin - Paperback

by Donald N. Yates (Author)

In the 1920s, a series of inscribed leaden crosses and ceremonial swords were excavated in the desert outside Tucson. This new inventory presents a complete set of documentary photographs plus transcriptions of the Latin accompanied by English translations. These improbable gems of American archeology record a unique trans-Pacific Jewish colony from Charlemagne's Europe in eighth to ninth century Arizona. Donald Yates's research and readings will forever lay to rest any modern-day notions that pre-Columbian civilizations developed without Old World influences.

Author Biography

Donald N. Yates (also published as Donald Panther-Yates) was born in 1950 in Cedartown, Georgia and is of one-quarter American Indian descent. With Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman he has co-authored When Scotland Was Jewish (2007), Jews and Muslims in British Colonial America: A Genealogical History (2012) and The Early Jews and Muslims of England and Wales: A Genetic and Genealogical History (2013). He is the author of Old World Roots of the Cherokee: How DNA, Ancient Alphabets and Religion Explain the Origins of America's Largest Indian Nation (2012) and Old Souls in a New World: The Secret History of the Cherokee Indians (2013). With his wife, Teresa A. Yates, he is co-author of the first two volumes in the DNA Consultants Series on Consumer Genetics: Cherokee DNA Studies: Real People Who Proved the Geneticists Wrong (2014) and DNA and You: Blog Posts from the Golden Age of the Human Genome Project (2016). They live in Colorado.