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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, [...]

Sapelo Shell Rings (2170 BC)

Gary C. Daniels — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:24:39 +0000

The Sapelo Shell Rings Complex is the most ancient Native American civilization in the state of Georgia and is older than the pyramids of Egypt! See 3-D computer reconstructions and take a virtual reality tour of this lost city consisting of three circular villages each with a circular central plaza and each surrounded by a massive circular wall constructed from tons of sea shells.

Origin of Ancient Jade Tool Baffles Scientists

Gary C. Daniels — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 04:45:42 +0000

A composite photograph of the front and back of the jade gouge shown with a centimeter scale. CREDIT: Les O’Neil, University of Otago An international team of archaeologists and geologists has found an extremely unusual example of jade in the Southwest Pacific, thousands of miles away from the nearest known geological source. The small green [...]

Ancient walled city, older than Egypt’s pyramids, unearthed off Georgia coast

Gary C. Daniels — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 02:49:00 +0000

Watch an excerpt from the Lost Worlds: Georgia DVD. Buy today or make a donation and help support LostWorlds.org. All proceeds help fund future videos and exhibits. Six hours southeast of Atlanta off the Georgia coast on Sapelo Island, archaeologists have unearthed the remains of an ancient walled city which predates the construction of [...]

Ancient popcorn discovered in Peru

Gary C. Daniels — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 18:52:12 +0000

Some of the oldest known corn cobs, husks, stalks and tassels, dating from 6,700 to 3,000 years ago were discovered at Paredones and Huaca Prieta, two mound sites on Peru’s arid northern coast. (Credit: Tom D. Dillehay) People living along the coast of Peru were eating popcorn 1,000 years earlier than previously reported and before [...]

Super Solar Flare Recorded in Ancient Rock Art?

Gary C. Daniels — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:01:07 +0000

The discovery that objects from the Neolithic or Early Bronze Age carry patterns associated with high-current Z-pinches provides a possible insight into the origin and meaning of these ancient symbols produced by man. This paper directly compares the graphical and radiation data from high-current Z-pinches to these patterns. The paper focuses primarily, but not exclusively, on petroglyphs. It is found that a great many archaic petroglyphs can beclassified according to plasma stability and instability data. As the same morphological types are found worldwide, the comparisons suggest the occurrence of an intense aurora, as might be produced if the solar wind had increased between one and two orders of magnitude, millennia ago.

Forty New Rock Art Sites in Mexico

Gary C. Daniels — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 22:35:47 +0000

Rock-art has been discovered and recorded in forty sites in northeastern Guanajuato, Mexico, as part of an ongoing project carried out by researchers from the National Institute of Anthropology and History. The majority of the images were created by hunter-gatherers who occupied the area during the 1-5 centuries AD, but religious iconography and inscriptions were also discovered dating to the colonial era, as well as the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Carvings in Land Attest to Amazon’s Lost World

Gary C. Daniels — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 16:24:24 +0000

The earliest explorers of the Amazon recorded that it was filled with villages and towns. After European diseases swept the area and wiped out its inhabitants, the jungle regrew and hid all evidence of these civilizations. Later explorers would find no evidence of such civilizations and the archaeological community, in all their brilliance and wisdom, [...]

Mayan Words Among Georgia’s Indians?

Gary C. Daniels — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 05:07:49 +0000

Mayan Words in Hitchiti-Creek Language Suggest Ancient Connection The Hitchiti language, one of many languages spoken by Creek Indians, was spoken in Georgia and Florida during the Colonial Period by tribes including the Hitchiti, Chiaha, Oconee, Sawokli, Apalachicola and Miccosukee. Based on the number of place names derived from the Hitchiti language, scholars believe this [...]