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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Woodland Period
Rock Eagle & Rock Hawk (100 AD)
Rock Eagle is an effigy mound in the shape of a bird with its wings spread. It is believed to have been constructed around 2,000 years ago. It is one of only two such structures known to exist east of the Mississippi river with the second structure known as Rock Hawk also located nearby.
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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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Fort Mountain Stone Wall (400 AD)
A mysterious stone wall constructed atop Fort Mountain in north Georgia around 400 AD could represent an astronomical observatory built by people from Mexico.
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New Artifacts Suggest Mexican connection to Ohio’s Hopewell Culture
Jaguars and panthers aren’t from Indiana but they show up at the Mann Hopewell Site as beautifully detailed carvings. Put them together with clay figurines that have slanted eyes — not a Hopewell feature — and Linderman says we could be looking at a connection between Indiana and Central or South America.
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45-Foot Ancient Canoe Stuck In The Muck Of Weedon Island
A 45-foot canoe, buried for more than a thousand years and used by a long-dead culture of Native Americans was used to paddle over the open waters of the bay — unlike the other ancient canoes uncovered in Florida which were used to ply the calmer waters of lakes and rivers.
Read moreA dog’s life long ago
In ancient Illinois, small dogs were made to carry or pull sacks of firewood until the tips of their vertebrae broke. Sometimes their heads were lopped off with stone axes during sacrificial ceremonies. Most often, they were buried with the trash.
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Oakville excavation raises more questions
OAKVILLE, Iowa — The prehistoric Indian village that was excavated near here a year ago has been covered up again,
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Native American artifacts on Pascagoulas Greenwood Island date to 1000 B.C
Greenwood Island on the western side of Bayou Casotte in Pascagoula has long been known for its Native American history.
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Shawnee Lookout Oldest Hilltop Settlement?
The Shawnee are one of the most important Native American groups in North America due to their long standing and far flung trade networks. They had trading outposts throughout eastern North America from the Great Lakes to Florida. One site known as Shawnee Lookout in Ohio appears to have been continuously occupied by the Shawnee for over 2,000 years. It is also much larger than the original 1960 archaeological investigations revealed.
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Large Hopewell site unearthed in Ohio
A huge archaeological site has been unearthed in Ohio dating to the Hopewell time period. From the news report: Five
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Virtual First Ohioans
The Ohio Historical Society has a new online exhibit entitled Virtual First Ohioans which includes videos and photos of artifacts
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