But wait: Before we get too excited, know that the scientist written about in the story (Mark Williams) is saying this is BS. What he is calling BS is the link to Mayan Culture. The question of whether Mayans inhabited what is now America, is a hotly debated topic.
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From: Raw Story
Written By: By David Ferguson
Archaeologists have discovered the ruins of an ancient Mayan city in the mountains of North Georgia believed to be at least 1,100 years old. According to Richard Thornton at Examiner.com, the ruins are reportedly what remains of a city built by Mayans fleeing wars, volcanic eruptions, droughts and famine.
In 1999, University of Georgia archeologist Mark Williams led an expedition to investigate the Kenimer Mound, a large, five-sided pyramid built in approximately 900 A.D. in the foothills of Georgia’s tallest mountain, Brasstown Bald. Many local residents has assumed for years that the pyramid was just another wooded hill, but in fact it was a structure built on an existing hill in a method common to Mayans living in Central America as well as to Southeastern Native American tribes.
Speculation has abounded for years as to what could have happened to the people who lived in the great Meso-American societies of the first century. Some historians believed that they simply died out in plagues and food shortages, but others have long speculated about the possibility of mass migration to other regions.
When evidence began to turn up of Mayan connections to the
Georgia site, South African archeologist Johannes Loubser brought teams
to the site who took soil samples and analyzed pottery shards which
dated the site and indicated that it had been inhabited for many decades
approximately 1000 years ago. The people who settled there were known
as Itza Maya, a word that carried over into the Cherokee language of the
region.
The find is particularly relevant in that it establish specific links between the culture of Southeastern Native Americans and ancient Mayans. According to Thornton, it may be the “most important archeological discovery in recent times.”
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