Reconsidering Satilla
A Source Audit and Argument for a Sati/Itsati/Santee Origin Abstract The Satilla River of southern Georgia is commonly said to
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Research Reports
Paquimé: Ancient America’s First Central Bank?
When archaeologists excavated Paquimé in northern Chihuahua, they found the remains of one of the most extraordinary cities ever built
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Achito Is Not Hitchiti
A Source and Linguistic Reassessment of Two Lower Creek Town Names Abstract The origin of the name Hitchiti has generally
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Paquimé: Ancient America’s 9/11?
The Fall of North America’s Great Desert Trade City Sometime during the first half of the fifteenth century, one of
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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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Ysa, Issa, Esaw, and Iswa
Reconsidering a Supposed Catawban Ethnonym Abstract The identification of the sixteenth-century Ysa/Yssa, later Issa and Esaw, with the Catawba expression
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Santee Origins
Before Santee: The Issa–Is? Ethnonymic Stem in Siouan-Catawban Historical Onomastics Abstract The ethnonym Santee presents an unusual historical-linguistic problem. In
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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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Reconsidering Ogechie and Ogeechee
A Source Audit of a Proposed Siouan Hydronym ABSTRACT: In Dakota Sioux Once Lived in Georgia, I proposed that the
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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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Ortona Mounds (Glades County, Florida)
History of the Ortona Mounds Early Documentation and Surveys (19th – Early 20th Century) The archaeological significance of the Ortona
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Florida Serpent Mound Represents Serpens Constellation
Around 250 AD a village was constructed in the Lake Okeechobee area of south Florida that was unlike any other
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