Articles

The Reconstruction and Archaeoastronomy of a Hopewell Hilltop Earthwork in Ohio

  by Richard D. Moats Overview: The Salisbury brothers authored a paper in 1862 describing several sites in Ohio. One of the sites they described was an “Ancient Symbolic Earth Works” in Northern Perry County. The paper included a narrative and plot map of a hill top earthwork and three associated features.  They were precise Read More

Anomalous DNA in the Cherokee

The third chapter of Donald Yates’ history of the Cherokee (Old World Roots of the Cherokee, McFarland 2012) contains the genetic story of the Cherokee Indians based on DNA Consultants’ 2009 study “Anomalous Mitochondrial DNA in the Cherokee,” but it is no easy read, being written for an academic audience. Earlier this year Yates published a condensation of Read More

Semiotic Relationships and Rock Art Sites

home.comcast.net/~carlbjork   By Carl A. Bjork     If we are to debate or discuss, or to develop a general theory about the symbols and possible semiotic relationships found at rock art sites, we must delineate and set boundaries on the definition or meaning of rock-art. I will use “rock art” to describe what is Read More