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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. [...]

Europeans in Ice Age America? The Solutrean Hypothesis

Gary C. Daniels — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 13:40:07 +0000

Dennis Stanford spent thirty years of his career searching the Arctic and Russian Siberia for the origins of the Clovis Culture, the supposedly first Native American culture in America. After thirty years of searching he found no evidence that Clovis came across a land bridge from Siberia. What the evidence suggested was that the Clovis [...]

Ancient Chihuahuas Once Roamed, and Eaten, in Southeastern U.S.?

Gary C. Daniels — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 18:58:55 +0000

Chihuahua pot from Niesler Mound in Georgia The origins of the Chihuahua have been lost in the mists of time yet new research reveals they once roamed the southern states of Georgia and Tennessee. The discovery was made by analyzing dog effigy pots unearthed in Georgia and Tennessee to determine the most likely breed they [...]

Ancient Chihuahuas in Southeastern U.S.?

Gary C. Daniels — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 20:25:30 +0000

Do three dog effigy pots excavated in Georgia in the 1930s at the Bull Creek Site and one from the Neisler Mound site represent the Chihuahua breed, a native dog of Mexico? Is the tribe most likely associated with these pots the Kasihta/Cussetta Creek Indians whose migration legends strongly suggest an origin in west Mexico, [...]