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Rosemary Durham

Are there links among Watson Brake, Babel, Poverty Point?

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[Why our area has its unique political and religious attitudes.] We are continuing to pursue the first people in our area from pre-historic time. Nevertheless, archaeologists have developed a significant record from artifacts. History is not static. When we were taking Louisiana History, no one had heard of Poverty Point or Watson Brake. In a…

We have lost knowledge from our ancestral beginnings

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[Why our area has its unique political and religious attitudes.] We are continuing to pursue the first people in our area from pre-historic time. Pre-history simply means before a written history. Nevertheless, archaeologists have developed a significant record from artifacts. History is not static. We have followed the parallel development of the American Indian culture…

American Indian culture vs. the Cradle of Civilization

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[Why our area has its unique political and religious attitudes.] We are continuing to pursue the first people in our area from pre-historic time. Pre-history simply means before a written history. Nevertheless, archaeologists have developed a significant record from artifacts. History is not static. The last articles were pressing the question of what happened to…

What really happened to the people of the Watson Brake?

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[Why our area has its unique political and religious attitudes.] We are continuing to pursue the first people in our area from pre-historic time. Pre-history simply means before a written history. Nevertheless, archaeologists have developed a significant record from artifacts. History is not static. What happened to the people at the first mound in North…

Other than technology, were ancient people so different?

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[Why our area has its unique political and religious attitudes.] We are continuing to pursue the first people in our area from pre-historic time. Pre-history simply means before a written history. Nevertheless, archaeologists have developed a significant record from artifacts. We have the early great civilization of the world, Mississippi River Basin, setting up along…

Babylonian, Israeli and American histories intertwined

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[Why our area has its unique political and religious attitudes.] We are continuing to pursue the first people in our area from pre-historic time. Pre-history simply means before a written history. Nevertheless, archaeologists have developed a significant record from artifacts. What have we found so far about the relationship of the ancient Babylonian culture to…

Written history is beginning to make much more sense

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[Why our area has its unique political and religious attitudes.] Last article found that the pre-historic, pre-Columbian, Native American genome has significant modern Western Eurasian heritage with no ties to contemporary East Asian genome. Who were these people? All written historical records trace to the cradle of civilization. This becomes our heritage, whether European, Asian,…

Native American genes mostly come from Europe, not Asia

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[Why our area has its unique political and religious attitudes.] The research for this series of articles took a decidedly unexpected turn. Early mound-builders were predecessors of the people removed from the land, so that the forced migration could enter. From where did the mound-builders come? We left last article with the question “Did they…

The abundance of mounds in Oklahoma tells some stories

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[Why our area has its unique political and religious attitudes.] When driving through the countryside, outcrops or small rises with a flattop appear in places contrary to the surrounding terrain. Most of these are undocumented or we have simply lost their history in the last one-hundred years. During prehistory, societies around the world constructed mounds….