Originally published in Ancient American magazine. by Ross Hamilton Long ago in central North America, there was a great civil war. It was a war owning many battles, and had an incredible loss of life. It wasn’t the North versus the South, although it sponsored a confederacy against a union. It probably spanned the geography Read More
First published in Ancient American magazine and later in Nexus magazine. by Ross Hamilton Noted Native American author and professor of law emeritus, Vine Deloria, writes in a personal communication: It’s probably better that so few of the ruins and remains were tied in with the Smithsonian because they give good reason to believe Read More
by, Jim Burchell John Young of London, Kentucky found this pipe under a rock shelter in Clay County, Kentucky. He brought it to me for examination. The pipe was broken but I was able to piece it together and trace the writings that were on it.There were two Ogam scrips on it. The bottom of Read More
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
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
by, Warren W. Dexter Originally published in Ancient American Magazine – Issue #54. An unusual site is located just West of Writing on Stone Provencal Park, in Alberta. There, the Milk River starts at the eastern edge of Glacier National Park, in Montana, then flows north across the Canadian border, traveling parallel Read More
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
Dear Editor, I am Hezekiah Hensley and I have decided to write an article about a natural winter solstice alignment site I discovered. It is a small cave located in the Red Bird River Valley in Eastern Clay County that aligns to the winter solstice. I was at this cave back in the 1990’s with Read More