Topic ID #16528 - posted 2/20/2012 5:33 AM
Jennifer Palmer
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Mayan pyramids and gold mines in the SE US?
Jennifer Palmer
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History | February 18, 2012
Pyramids in Florida and Georgia constructed by Mayans?
Gary Daniels
Orlando Travel Examiner
Around 200 AD Indians in Florida and Georgia began the construction of enormous earthen pyramids. At the same time corn also arrived in Florida. Corn is a native crop of Mexico and archaeologist William Sears, who first discovered this evidence of corn agriculture in Florida, argued in his book that it must have come from Mexico or Central America.
Read more here.
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History | February 19, 2012
Maya gold mines in Georgia? The Ocala Connection.
Gary Daniels
Orlando Travel Examiner
When Europeans first stepped foot in Florida and Georgia they all recorded eye-witness accounts of Native Americans in possession of gold. The Spanish expedition of Narvaez saw a Native American wearing gold trinkets in northwest Florida and inquired about the origins of the gold. The Indian told Narvaez that it came from a far-away province called Apalachen in mountains north of Florida obviously a reference to the Apalachian mountains that begin in north Georgia. Coincidentally, these same mountains were the site of America's first gold rush.
Read more here.
Pyramids in Florida and Georgia constructed by Mayans?
Gary Daniels
Orlando Travel Examiner
Around 200 AD Indians in Florida and Georgia began the construction of enormous earthen pyramids. At the same time corn also arrived in Florida. Corn is a native crop of Mexico and archaeologist William Sears, who first discovered this evidence of corn agriculture in Florida, argued in his book that it must have come from Mexico or Central America.
Read more here.
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History | February 19, 2012
Maya gold mines in Georgia? The Ocala Connection.
Gary Daniels
Orlando Travel Examiner
When Europeans first stepped foot in Florida and Georgia they all recorded eye-witness accounts of Native Americans in possession of gold. The Spanish expedition of Narvaez saw a Native American wearing gold trinkets in northwest Florida and inquired about the origins of the gold. The Indian told Narvaez that it came from a far-away province called Apalachen in mountains north of Florida obviously a reference to the Apalachian mountains that begin in north Georgia. Coincidentally, these same mountains were the site of America's first gold rush.
Read more here.
Post ID#19330 - replied 2/20/2012 4:37 PM
bcoe
Is this the same writer who was responsible for the Mayan temple ruins in Georgia story?
Post ID#19368 - replied 2/25/2012 5:49 PM
StarRider
No, that was Richard Thornton, in his scheme he places the arrival of the Mayas to Georgia around 800AD.
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