[Why our area has its unique political and religious attitudes.]

We have evidence in North America of huge mounds along the Mississippi and tributaries from as far back as 3500 BC, just 400 years after the archaeological dating of Babel. Some smaller mounds date to 4000 BC.

Think about the history of the world and its correlation to the Native American culture. These were not evolutionary cultures, but parallel societies as far back as pre-history. These were equivalent civilizations using similar technology existing on opposite sides of the planet.

Unless we have a written record, which is seldom the case, history gets written years after the event. Most history is an extrapolation of previous tradition, reflecting the philosophical proclivity of the historian. Consequently, history all too often as written has no basis in fact or reality, but is a political commentary.

The other source of history is the scientific method. We have affirmed numerous times that there is no such thing as settled science, but that the scientific method is an iterative process of asking different questions, getting more data and developing hypotheses. Archaeologists, astrophysicists, and analysts are just some of the science specialties who write history with a basis in corresponding reality.

Last week, the article ended with the question about the history of the world and its correlation to the Native American culture. How did equivalent societies using similar technology exist in the ‘Cradle of Civilization’ at the same time as Oklahoma and Louisiana?

Tradition tells us that all native cultures came across a land bridge from northeastern Asia. Why that model? Why can it not be accurate?

The reason for the projection is an extrapolation of conventional thinking that the ancients were simple people, unknowing and ignorant. We have already ascertained that is inaccurate because the ‘Cradle of Civilization’ had a sophisticated culture, by pottery and other excavations.

We have already seen that the Native Americans had at least as advanced culture, and perhaps earlier advanced technology of ‘mound’ building which predates the Pyramids. Cultures used the available material. So, the premise of uneducated, technologically unsophisticated, and primitive goes out the window.

As much as has been tried by linguists and anthropologists, the languages of the Native Americans do not have a common source. Like the Hungarian and Finnish languages, which are Uralic Huns (old Hamitic) in the Middle of traditional Indo-European (old Japhetic) cultures, different language groups make up the Original Americans.

Then we have the correspondence between western South America culture and Polynesian Easter Island. Who does not remember the story of ‘The Raft Kon-Tiki,’ a documentation by Thor Heyerdahl in 1947 of travel by raft using ancient materials between Peru and French Polynesia?

The ancient histories, including the Jewish Tanakh and Babylonian epics, tell of great migrations of people at the same time. Like all histories and records, they focus on their people and culture, but allude to others.

We start with the question of where did the pre-Mississippian Culture originate?

We have the data just outlined. The Smithsonian Institute, including data from an archaeology excavation by Thomas Jefferson, has affirmed that all mounds in the United States are construction by early American Indians.

Most were predecessors to the woodland people, who were the forebears of the Five Tribes. The Creek people are later cultural occupants of the Ocmulgee Mounds in Georgia, built about 900 AD during the Mississippian Culture expansion.

The earliest mound civilizations were in the Lower Mississippi River Delta. If they had migrated across the Alaskan land bridge, why keep travelling all the way across the continent to near the Gulf of Mexico?

The artifacts indicate that is not a reasonable hypothesis. The simplest answer is the original global travelers for this group migrated from the Gulf along the huge Mississippi River to a stable region of the delta.

Over time, they migrated up the Red, Arkansas, and Ohio River tributaries.

We have evaluated and dismissed other hypotheses. Following the scientific method, the most reasonable hypothesis which fits the data is that the people came from the Gulf of Mexico. Now that creates a new problem.

Think about, where or how did people in 4000 BCE get to the mouth of the Mississippi River? Our history is older than we can fathom.

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Excerpts from our books:

Where Indians, Outlaws & Oilmen Were Real, ISBN: 9781658834643.

No Man’s Land Pioneers, Louisiana’s wild, wild West, ISBN: 9781694632128.