Doc-

Not everyone will see, or will admit to seeing, what you see (I do by the way). You could be totally wrong. In the study of history and the study of other human events, one learns that just as it is difficult to know cause and effect the instant a thing happen, it can be equally, if not more difficult to know this upon reflection. E.g., we struggle to understand the recent history of powered flight (who did or who copied what.)

But the evidence is piling up in favor of the connections you are making between non-European (much less non-English) influences in the patterns/motifs, and perhaps even in the technology and there has been very little evidence to suggest otherwise.


Doug