Could the Maya Reach Florida?
The Maya were known for their spectacular cities featuring dazzling pyramids. But these cities, often having 100-200,000 inhabitants, required an
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Native American Archaeology News
The latest updates and discoveries in Native American archaeology including Hopewell, Mississippian, and more.
Mayan Glyphs at Crystal River Site in Florida
The Crystal River site on the Gulf Coast of Florida has been called enigmatic for decades due to the
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Were there Mayans in the Florida Keys?
This very interesting article from 1985 highlights evidence of an ancient culture in the Florida Keys who were building
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Ancient Temples in Georgia and Egypt Share Solar Alignments
Did you know that the Ocmulgee Earth Lodge in Macon, Georgia and the Abu Simbel Temple in Aswan, Egypt are
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A New Religious Cult in 7th Century Florida?
Sometime in the seventh century AD Florida’s native people’s transitioned from producing Swift Creek pottery to Weeden Island pottery. How
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DNA Reveals New, Unknown Ancestors of Early Native Americans
The latest research shows a heretofore unknown lineage of Native Americans called the Ancient Beringians that eventually went extinct.
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Toltecs and Cahokia
Was the ancient Native American metropolis of Cahokia built or inspired by the Toltec empire of Central Mexico? That’s the
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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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Pyramids in the Everglades?
Eyewitness accounts of ancient stone ruins and pyramids in the Everglades and other locations in South Florida are investigated in
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Network of Ancient Canals in Florida
The Ortona Mounds site in the Lake Okeechobee region of Florida features a network of canals for canoe travel: The
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Native Americans in Florida built an extensive canal network for canoe travel. The only other such network of canals is
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Earliest turkey domestication found in Tennessee
Turkeys figured prominently into pre-contact Native American life, but the first archaeological evidence of probable domestication in the Southeast U.S.
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