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Mississippian Moundbuilders Art on Display Online

Gary C. Daniels — Sun, 20 May 2012 15:45:41 +0000

Mike Ruggeri’s Mississippian Moundbuilders Art Portfolio is an online exhibit showcasing the artistry of Native Americans living in the Midwest and Southeast. The online exhibit features Mississippian head pots, human effigy vessels, pottery, smoking pipes, shell art, and chunkey stones. The showcase also features Mississippian iconography which shows how the Native American cultures represented themselves. [...]

Native American artifacts on Pascagoulas Greenwood Island date to 1000 B.C

Gary C. Daniels — Sat, 19 May 2012 14:16:55 +0000

Greenwood Island on the western side of Bayou Casotte in Pascagoula has long been known for its Native American history. Now, archaeologists have dated that history to 1000 B.C., and said that pottery shards found there are the oldest known specimens uncovered on the Mississippi coast. The findings were released by Carey Geiger, president of [...]

Tour of Lamar Mounds

Gary C. Daniels — Thu, 17 May 2012 20:13:20 +0000

Atlanta may be one of the most modern cities in America yet it is surrounded by the remnants of ancient Native American civilizations that date back thousands of years. One such civilization was located in Macon, Georgia at the archaeological site known as Lamar Mounds. Located just an hour south of Atlanta, the Lamar Mounds [...]

Large Hopewell site unearthed in Ohio

Gary C. Daniels — Thu, 17 May 2012 14:52:00 +0000

A huge archaeological site has been unearthed in Ohio dating to the Hopewell time period. From the news report: Five weeks of digging this summer by professional and amateur archaeologists from the Cleveland Museum and the Firelands Archaeological Research Center, guided by the magnetic readings, have confirmed the presence of a major occupation, and have [...]

Moundville Aerial Video

Gary C. Daniels — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 12:35:14 +0000

Chickasaw.tv, the Chickasaw Nation’s online video network, has produced an amazing video featuring the Moundville site in Alabama. The video features aerial flyovers of the Moundville site revealing its true majesty. The site notes, Moundville was a preeminent ancient center of mound culture on the Black Warrior River, just west of present-day Tuscaloosa, Alabama. It [...]

Sacred Mayan Journey 2012

Gary C. Daniels — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 19:12:42 +0000

The Maya of the Postclassic era considered the sea as a source of food and a navigable resource but it was also the cause of devastation and death, as the marine world was linked to the Xibalbá or underworld. And so, a sea crossing meant a transition to the afterlife or a rebirth. Ports like [...]

Mayan Pottery, Pyramids Unearthed in Georgia

Gary C. Daniels — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 21:24:39 +0000

New research reveals that symbols which appear on ancient Georgia pottery are identical to Mayan glyphs, the symbols used to write the Mayan language. The pottery known as Swift Creek was a highly decorated form of pottery produced around 2,000 years ago beginning around 0 A.D. Many of the Swift Creek designs were collected in [...]

Who Discovered America?

Gary C. Daniels — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 13:56:58 +0000

This History Channel documentary entitled “Who Really Discovered America?” highlights the various theories of Precolumbian contact with the Americas by cultures ranging from the Chinese to the Vikings to the Polynesians. It really helps show that ocean voyages have been possible for thousands of years and that neither the Atlantic or Pacific Oceans were the [...]

Mayan Glyphs on Georgia, Florida Pottery?

Gary C. Daniels — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 04:57:21 +0000

Distribution of Swift Creek sites in Southeastern U.S. The arrival of corn at the Fort Center and Ortona sites in the Lake Okeechobee area of Florida by 200 AD coincides with a pottery tradition known as Swift Creek. In fact, this pottery tradition appears in the same places where the Hitchiti language was spoken thus [...]

Did Maya mine blue pigment from Georgia?

Gary C. Daniels — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 16:54:23 +0000

One of the many mysteries involving the ancient Maya is the origin of a blue pigment they used to paint murals and buildings. Archaeologists have searched far and wide for the source of this pigment. It now appears that the largest source of the clay that makes this pigment can be found in southwest Georgia. [...]