He was really interested in writings and inscriptions especially Ogham.

He also claimed that inscriptions found in the New World were written in many ancient European alphabets. He argued that there were linguistic connections between Native American languages and different European languages. His evidence ranged from linguistic to architectural. In these writings he proposed and supported with evidence that North America had been visited and colonized by practically everyone before Christopher Columbus stumbled upon the New World. in 1976, Saga America in 1980, and Bronze Age America in 1982. Instead Fell brought to light many conspiracy and pseudo-archaological theories that furthered controversy because he had no idea what he was talking about since he wasn't versed in archaeology or anthropology.īarry Fell wrote America B.C. Fell thought that he could provide objectivity to controversial areas within archaeology and anthropology because he was a marine biologist and somewhat distanced from the controversy. However archaeologists refer to him as a self-promoting pseudo scientist who is blindly trusted in anthropological matters and threatened to undo more than a century of careful progress in archaeological research. He has also been deemed the greatest linguist of the twentieth century because of his research on inscriptions. Fell was a professor of invertebrate zoology and his primary research included starfish and sea urchins, though he is best known for his controversial work on pre-columbian contact.įell had a lot of interest in inscriptions and linguistics and became a sort of amateur epigrapher. He emigrated to the US to join the staff of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard where he worked until he retired in 1979. Fell was well known for his knowledge on fossil sea urchins and was recruited by Harvard University in 1964.

Fell also served with the British Army during World War II, but returned to New Zealand to resume his academic career as professor of zoology at the Victoria University of Wellington. He returned to the British Isles to receive his Ph.D. Fell was born in Sussex, England, and then moved with his mother to New Zealand in the early 1920s after his father died. Howard Barraclough Fell or Barry Fell was born June 6th of 1918 and died in April 1994.

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