1,100 Yr. Old Mayan Ruins In N. Georgia Mountains, USA

Pretty interesting. I'm seeing a road trip in my future.

1,100-year-old Mayan ruins found in North Georgia

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 city that is being uncovered there is believed to have been called Yupaha, which Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto searched for unsuccessfully in 1540. So far, archeologists have unearthed “at least 154 stone masonry walls for agricultural terraces, plus evidence of a sophisticated irrigation system and ruins of several other stone structures.” Much more may still be hidden underground.

The find is particularly relevant in that it establishes 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.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/12/2...north-georgia/

thats AWESOME!

I've seen a little about this before..... cool stuff!

I hope they find a 2013 calendar in there somewhere.

Wow. I found some more interesting things while reading other articles about the above story; like a story about something similar to Stonehenge once sitting atop Stone Mountain. I had no idea!

Wow!! VERY interesting, if there's any substance at all to this. It would go neatly hand-in-hand with a lot of the other stories that pervade this part of the country, like the massive Stonehenge-like megalith circle that once sat atop Stone Mountain (the Ku Klux Klan got ride of 'em about a hundred years ago when the likenesses of the Confederate generals were being carved into the rock face) and the local Native Americans said they had no idea who erected those boulders to begin with. Then there are the odd mounds and carvings here and there from South Carolina on up to the Ohio Valley.

http://theknightshift.blogspot.com/2...yan-ruins.html

I live near some of those mound sites in Ohio. There's a bunch of those that are not documented too, people just figure it's a hill...... forgetting the obvious "this area was leveled by glaciers" deal.

I love this kind of stuff! I have two hide scrapers that I found in North Carolina. They are some of my most prized possessions.

I'm not telling what I have.... I would probably have to give it back.

I've never shown anyone my stuff and I don't say exactly where I got it.

I had to take a cultural preservation class before working on a Navajo reservation.

If ANY little thing was found you had to report it. And they could even stop construction there until an archaeologist checked out the site. If it was a dwelling, etc. the plug would have been pulled on the spot for any further construction.

They take that stuff seriously.