publishing help for archaeological find

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Many of us with Asperger's seem to have the flair for discoveries. I made a discovery many years ago, and I have thought about publishing an article on it. But...it is hard to do this. I just can't walk up to a major magazine and expect them to take my idea because they don't know me. But yet I have this major discovery.

I want to get this idea published somehow so that is recorded that I discovered this major finding. Here are some basics of this:

It involves an ancient culture in America and their works. I have discovered a connection between their culture and one overseas. There is something about this American culture's works that defies what anyone so far has ever discovered about them.

I need help with this. I have always wanted to publish it. Even though I can write, this one is hard because I don't know a lot about describing this culture and getting into my findings---as most magazine articles do. Instead, I have focused on this finding and would find it difficult to introduce this topic by giving background information on this culture. I would prefer if a magazine writer would interview me and put the article together. Is there anyone here who knows what I can do?

Best to make friends with some archaeology students and help them make their thesis on the subject. Of course, this is without any monetary gain or any rise to fame but it gets the idea out there and it gets properly debated. You don't want your idea to become a part of junk science, now do you?

All I want is for my finding to be published---and I do want credit for the discovery. I want no money for it. I want to be able to lecture about this finding without the fear of someone else taking the discovery and claiming it as their own.

Moundbuilder? Something is known but not much, every part is important.

First step is write up what you know, then the parts that can be learned and filled in can be, except a lot are missing.

A lot about where to publish is what type of information, but all call for putting your main facts in context of the known.

In the case of Hopewell Adena, we know less than we admit. They do not fit the general American history. Archaic, woodland, Missippian, an art and culture of their own.

There has been some speculation about a Numidian connection, or perhaps Welsh.

As for "Junk Science" most is to start with, and some things can never be proven, the Scientific Method, just understood.

I do a lot on connecting cultures, to compare them both have to be studied.

PM me for details.

You can publish on the internet any time.

To get into an academic peer reviewed journal, you'd probably need a co-author, and it sounds as though you might need one anyway. To protect your intellectual property, publish what you do have to the internet, (even if published on a site somewhere in a hidden file), this will give you an electronic record of "first publishing" of data you have personally discovered.

If you cannot find an academic co-author, and you can write to a high quality, either research what you are missing, or find someone who can fill in the gaps, prepare the article together (remembering to pre-publish your original data electronically, even if in hidden internet files). When the article is to copy-standard, choose a number of magazines that routinely publish non-fiction articles of a similar quality and within the interest area (check you library/newsagent to research this). Then approach likely candidates with you "free lance" article.

Best of luck. If you need help getting research started, I might be able to help you with some leads (or maybe not); if you PM a broad outline of the kind of information you are looking for (the two cultures concerned for instance) I will let you know if I know where you should start looking.

Find an archaeologist who studies the culture you think the item came from or the European culture you think it's linked with. You'll have a hard time getting published with no formal qualifications.