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Lost Worlds: Georgia is a documentary I created in 2004 and updated in 2006 featuring the seven most important ancient
Read moreLost Worlds: Georgia is a documentary I created in 2004 and updated in 2006 featuring the seven most important ancient
Read moreIn 2004 I argued that the site of Etowah Mounds in Cartersville, Georgia was inhabited by elites from Cahokia, a
Read moreWhy was a fortified town built on the lower Chattahoochee River in southwest Georgia around 1100 AD? Known as the
Read moreOver the past year there has been much debate about the possible presence of Maya in America, specifically in Georgia.
Read moreWas the Ocmulgee earth lodge an astronomical observatory and sophisticated scientific apparatus designed to forewarn its designers of impending catastrophe
Read moreIn 1937, archaeologists in Georgia unearthed a surprise: a dog effigy pot that looked like a Chihuahua. How did Chihuahuas,
Read moreDo three dog effigy pots excavated in Georgia in the 1930s at the Bull Creek Site and one from
Read moreIs there evidence that the Maya were in Georgia and Florida? If so, why were they there? Were they mining
Read moreIt’s possible that a culture influenced by both west Mexican and Olmec ideas settled in Georgia during the Mississippian period. Both the cultural traditions and oral history of the Creek Indians strongly suggest an origin from west Mexico.
Read moreAn ancient civilization of mound builders who lived near the Ocmulgee River just northeast of what is now downtown Macon may have been home to more native people than originally thought. Though the research, much of it done with a ground-scanning instrument to roughly map underground shapes and forms, is still under way, early analysis seems to indicate more unearthed dwellings at the site than were previously known to have existed.
Read moreOcmulgee Mounds located in Macon, Geogia consists of seven mounds and associated plazas. The Great Temple Mound at Ocmulgee was built atop the Macon Plateau and rises 56 feet high from the surface of the plateau.
Read moreThe Etowah Mounds complex consists of six earthen Indian mounds all in the traditional Mississippian truncated pyramid shape. These Indian mounds were built between 950 A.D. and 1450 A.D. although major construction didn’t truly begin until around A.D. 1250.
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