New England Antiquities Research Association

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The New England Antiquities Research Association (NEARA) is a non-profit organization founded 1964. It is according to its website: "is dedicated to a better understanding of our historic and prehistoric past through the study and preservation of New England's stone sites in their cultural context."[1] The current president of NEARA is Suzanne Carlson.

The membership of NEARA consists for the most part of amateurs, and the organization was in 2003 described as a 'hotbed of "Diffusionist" thought, the belief that the Americas were widely visited by European and Asiatic cultures before Columbus'.[2] (See also Pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact.)

References

  1. ↑ "NEARA Home Page". Neara.org. Retrieved 2010-01-02.
  2. ↑ "Origins of the Newport Tower". Web.archive.org. May 2003. Archived from the original on 2006-08-23. Retrieved 2010-01-02.

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