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and dirt there is the same as dirt here
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Ellijay, Georgia . . . the secrets in its soil could change the history books





includes both the most sophisticated stone masonry that we have seen among the known 16+ Itza-te (Itza Maya descendants) towns in Georgia, Alabama and South Carolina, plus the ruins of what appears to be a 17th century European house

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This unwinds an amazing history and really shows us just how attractive these lands were to all comers. Most of that history evolved faraway from any governor or his agents.  Then the trail of tears did strip out those legitamately indigenous.

Yet what is clearly left is a body of folk of multiple origins both European and Caribbean.

I would love to see an academic effort that gathers remaining folk knowledge of all these peoples.  The archeology and the DNA work confirms real complexity and that also means cultural cross fertilization that was important..


Read more at https://globalwarming-arclein.blogspot.ca/2017/07/ellijay-georgia-secrets-in-its-soil.html.


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