By John J. White, III Originally published in The Midwestern Epigraphic Journal Volume 16 Reporting and interest in ancient history is rather ethnocentric. The shortage of authors with Black African heritage leads to an understatement of Black African participation in Cultural Diffusion to the Americas. The leading contributor by far is Professor Ivan Van Read More
By, John J White, III Originally Published in The Midwestern Epigraphic Society Newsletter Volume 25 Ivan Van Sertima and Barry Fell made major impacts on the ancient history establishment in 1976 when they published their famous books. The MES joined forces with Barry Fell in 1983 and soon acquired the eastern Kentucky Ogham sites Read More
Bronze Age Town & Gulf Ports on the Copper Trail Open-fire manufacturing of Copper Oxhides (NE Louisiana, & Mississippi c.2000-700 BC) J.S. Wakefield, jayswakefield@yahoo.com Photos coming soon, apologies from AA staff. Summary The “Late Archaic” Poverty Point earthworks in Louisiana are the earliest and largest monuments in prehistoric North America. The site Read More
by Cyclone Covey, DFMES, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, N.C. Originally published in The Midwestern Epigraphic Journal, Volume 20, 2006. Comments on: Lawrence F. Athy, “Foreign Influences on the Priesthood & Nobility of Precolumbian America,” ESOP XVII (1983), 106-120 & “Beards in North America Before Columbus,” XIX (1990), 169-175. THESE SEMINAL ARTICLES did Read More