Language Evidence of Mesoamerican Trade Contact in Southeastern U.S.
Linguist David Kaufman at the University of Kansas has found compelling linguistic evidence of trade contact between Mexico and the
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Maya in America
Evidence of the ancient Maya in the present-day United States of America.
Mayan Pottery, Pyramids Unearthed in Georgia
New research reveals that symbols which appear on ancient Georgia pottery are identical to Mayan glyphs, the symbols used to
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Mayan Glyphs on Georgia, Florida Pottery?
The arrival of corn at the Fort Center and Ortona sites in the Lake Okeechobee area of Florida by 200
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Did Maya mine blue pigment from Georgia?
One of the many mysteries involving the ancient Maya is the origin of a blue pigment they used to paint
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Maya gold mines in Georgia?
When Europeans first stepped foot in Florida and Georgia they all recorded eye-witness accounts of Native Americans in possession of
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Mayan Words Among Georgia’s Indians?
Mayan Words in Hitchiti-Creek Language Suggest Ancient Connection The Hitchiti language, one of many languages spoken by Creek Indians, was
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Were the Maya Mining Gold in Georgia?
Is there evidence that the Maya were in Georgia and Florida? If so, why were they there? Were they mining
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Possible Mayan Site Discovered in Georgia Mountains?
Architect and scholar Richard Thornton has published his findings about an archaeological site on the side of Georgia’s highest mountain
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Fort Mountain Stone Wall (400 AD)
A mysterious stone wall constructed atop Fort Mountain in north Georgia around 400 AD could represent an astronomical observatory built by people from Mexico.
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New Artifacts Suggest Mexican connection to Ohio’s Hopewell Culture
Jaguars and panthers aren’t from Indiana but they show up at the Mann Hopewell Site as beautifully detailed carvings. Put them together with clay figurines that have slanted eyes — not a Hopewell feature — and Linderman says we could be looking at a connection between Indiana and Central or South America.
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Turquoise suggests new trade routes between ancient America and Mexico
Thirty years ago the archaeological scientists Garman Harbottle and Edward Sayre used neutron activation analysis to show that turquoise mosaics from Mexico, found as far away as the great Maya city of Chichén Itzá in Yucatan and dating back to around AD900, used raw material originating in the Cerrillos mines between Albuquerque and Santa Fe in New Mexico, an overland distance of some 3,200 km (2,000 miles).
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Jade Axes Proof of Vast Ancient Caribbean Network, Experts Say
A discovery of ancient jade could shake up old notions of the New
World before Columbus. Scientists say they have traced 1,500-year-old
axe blades found in the eastern Caribbean to ancient jade mines in
Central America 1,800 miles (2,900 kilometers) away.
