The Santee Sioux Connection to Etowah and Ocmulgee
Were Georgia’s Great Mound Centers Built Around an Ancient Merchant Network? The Etowah Mounds and Ocmulgee Mounds have long been
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Georgia Mississippian Period
The Sati Corridor
Tracing a Santee Merchant Route from the Savannah River through the Southern Appalachians to the Tennessee–Mississippi Exchange Network Abstract Previous
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The Santee Merchant Guild
A Shawnee-Style Enclave Model For Siouan Trade Networks in Pre-Contact Georgia Abstract Previous cartographic and toponymic research in my paper
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Ancient DNA Reveals Chocolate Was Consumed at Georgia’s Etowah Mounds 900 Years Ago
For more than a century, archaeologists have noticed intriguing similarities between the ancient civilizations of the southeastern United States and
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Lost Worlds: Georgia on YouTube
Lost Worlds: Georgia is a documentary I created in 2004 and updated in 2006 featuring the seven most important ancient
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Etowah Elites from Cahokia
In 2004 I argued that the site of Etowah Mounds in Cartersville, Georgia was inhabited by elites from Cahokia, a
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Evidence of Foreign Invasion of Georgia in 1100 AD?
Why was a fortified town built on the lower Chattahoochee River in southwest Georgia around 1100 AD? Known as the
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Cahokia-Moundville-Etowah Artifacts Unearthed at Mayan site in Mexico
Over the past year there has been much debate about the possible presence of Maya in America, specifically in Georgia.
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Archaeoastronomy of the Ocmulgee Earth Lodge
Was the Ocmulgee earth lodge an astronomical observatory and sophisticated scientific apparatus designed to forewarn its designers of impending catastrophe
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Ancient Chihuahua pots in Georgia, 700 years old, suggest Mexican connection
In 1937, archaeologists in Georgia unearthed a surprise: a dog effigy pot that looked like a Chihuahua. How did Chihuahuas,
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Ancient Chihuahuas in Southeastern U.S.?
Do three dog effigy pots excavated in Georgia in the 1930s at the Bull Creek Site and one from
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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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