Trackrock Happenings - July 2. July 1. 3 & 1. Festival on the Square, Hayesville (NC); http: //www. July 1. 9 thru 2. Annual Georgia Mountain Fair, Hiawassee; http: //www. July 2. 0 - Kathy Mattea in Concert, Smoky Mountain Center for Performing Arts, Franklin (NC); http: //www. July 2. 0 - Georgia Mountain Fair Parade, 1. Downtown Hiawassee. July 2. 0 & 2. Blairsville Chamber of Commerce Community Guide. Hand-picked favorites from our editors. HPM Associates, Inc., Whittier. Looking for group incentive travel programs. Judy Meyers is an expert at making budgets work and giving our group the most bang for our buck. Preservation Programs provid-ed by the Community Council. Welcome to Trackrock and the special hospitality of the Alexander family. High Country Artisans, Inc.’s intent is to promote quality craftsmen and artists in the region through exhibitions and demonstrations and to support art programs in the community. Our purposes are exclusively charitable and. Moccasin Creek State Park: Driving Directions; Park Map; Calendar; Photo Gallery; Weather Report Reservations 800-864. Work will include picking up litter and cleaning fire pits. Please bring water and be prepared to get dirty. Butternut Creek Festival, Meeks Park, Blairsville; http: //www. July 2. 6 - John Berry in Concert at Copperhead Lodge, Blairsville, http: //www. July 2. 7 - Green Bean Festival, Union County Farmer's Market, Blairsville; http: //www. August 2 - Blairsville Cruisers Block Party, Walmart, Blairsville; http: //www. August 3 - Blairsville Cruisers Cruise- In, Blairsville Restaurant, 4- 6pm, Blairsville; http: //www. August 8, 9 & 1. Annual Moonshine Cruize- In, Georgia Mountain Fairgrounds, Hiawassee; http: //www. August 9 - Clint Black in Concert, Smoky Mountain Theater for Performing Arts, Franklin, NC; http: //www. August 1. 6 & 1. Kiwanis Rodeo, Blue Ridge; http: //www. August 2. 4 - Annual Tomato Festival, Crane Creek Vineyards, Hiawassee; http: //www. August 2. 4 & 2. Young Harris Arts Festival, Mayor's Park, Young Harris; http: //www. August 3. 1 & Sept 1 - Unicoi Art Fest, Helen; http: //www. August 3. 1 & Sept 1 - Georgia Mountain Heritage Festival, Blairsville; http: //www. Every Wednesday & Saturday, tours at 2pm - Misty Mountain Model Railroad, http: //www. Fridays at 8pm - July 5 and July 1. Mayan Ruins Found In Georgia(EXAMINER) Ruins in Georgia mountains show evidence of Maya connection. Richard Thornton. Architecture & Design. Examiner. December 2. Archaeological zone 9. UN3. 67 at Track Rock Gap, near Georgia’s highest mountain, Brasstown Bald, is a half mile (8. Much more may be hidden underground. BLAIRSVILLE, GA (December 2. Around the year 8. AD the flourishing Maya civilization of Central America suddenly began a rapid collapse. A series of catastrophic volcanic eruptions were followed by two long periods of extreme drought conditions and unending wars between city states. Cities and agricultural villages in the fertile, abundantly watered, Maya Highlands were the first to be abandoned. When the combination of volcanic eruptions, wars and drought erased the abundance of food, famines struck the densely populated Maya Lowlands. Within a century, most of the cities were abandoned. Most agronomists were convinced that corn, beans and tobacco came to the natives of the United States and Canada from Mexico. Historians, architects and archaeologists have speculated for 1. Maya people. Archaeologists could not find any region of Mexico or Central America that evidenced a significant immigration of Mayas during this period, except in Tamaulipas, which is a Mexican state that borders Texas on the Gulf of Mexico. However, Maya influence there, seemed to be limited to a few coastal trading centers. When Europeans first settled the Georgia Mountains in the early 1. Dozens of Indian mounds and stone masonry structures were scooped up by highway contractors to use in the construction of highways being funded by the Roosevelt Administration. For the most part, however, the stone ruins remained outside the public consciousness. In 1. 99. 9 archaeologist Mark Williams of the University of Georgia and Director of the LAMAR Institute, led an archaeological survey of the Kenimer Mound, which is on the southeast side of Brasstown Bald in the Nacoochee Valley. Residents in the nearby village of Sautee generally assume that the massive five- sided pyramidal mound is a large wooded hill. Williams is a highly respected specialist in Southeastern archaeology so there was a Maya connection that he did not know about. Itsate is what the Itza Mayas called themselves. Also, among all indigenous peoples of the Americas, only the Itza Mayas and the ancestors of the Creek Indians in Georgia built five- side earthen pyramids as their principal mounds. It was commonplace for the Itza Maya to sculpt a hill into a pentagonal mound. There are dozens of such structures in Central America. The name of Brasstown Bald Mountain is itself, strong evidence of a Maya presence. In 2. 00. 0 he persuaded the United States Forest Service to hire a professional archaeologist from South Africa, Johannes Loubser, to study the famous Track Rock petroglyphs, and also prepare a map of the stone walls across the creek in site 9. UN3. 67. Waldrup and his neighbors felt that the stone structure site deserved more professional attention. Loubser’s work was severely restricted by his available budget, but his discoveries “opened up the door” for future archaeological investigations. Loubser estimated that some of the shards were made around 7. AD – 8. 50 AD. He was in a conundrum. The Eastern Band of Cherokees had labeled Track Rock Gap as a “Cherokee Heritage Sacred Site.” He had been led to believe that the area had occupied by the Cherokee Indians for many centuries, yet he also knew that the Cherokees never built large scale public works. In fact, the Cherokees established a handful of hamlets in the extreme northeastern tip of Georgia during the 1. Brasstown Bald Mountain, where Track Rock is located, was not official Cherokee territory until 1. Much of its research has focused on tracing the movement of people, ideas and cultivated plants from Mesoamerica and Caribbean Basin to North America. The archaeological site would have been particularly attractive to Mayas because it contains an apparently dormant volcano fumarole that reaches down into the bowels of the earth. People of One Fire researchers have been aware since 2. English arrived in the Southeast, there were numerous Native American towns named Itsate in Tennessee, Georgia, South Carolina and western North Carolina. They were also aware that both the Itza Mayas of Central America and the Hitchiti Creeks of the Southeast actually called themselves Itsate . Their architecture was identical to that of Maya commoners. The pottery at Ocmulgee National Monument (c 9. AD) in central Georgia is virtually identical to the Maya Plain Red pottery made by Maya Commoners. In July of 2. 01. Waldrup furnished a copy of the 2. Stratum Unlimited, LLC archaeological report to People of One Fire members. Johannes Loubser’s radiocarbon dates exactly matched the diaspora from the Maya lands and the sudden appearance of large towns with Mesoamerican characteristics in Georgia, Alabama and southeastern Tennessee. For unknown reasons, I was not able to comment on my article, but I would like to respond to some of the comments, since it is obvious that several readers are reading the comments rather than the article. The situation is getting out of hand, with numerous web sites on the internet debating comments to this article as if they were the article. In short, if it builds the same buildings as the Itza Maya, says the same words as the Itza Maya, and has the same DNA as the Itza Maya . Check the weather report before leaving home. If you have questions about Native American history, please contact Richard at Native. Question@aol. com. Update: The article headline was revised to clarify that the connection between the Georgia ruins and the ancient Maya is still a matter of debate rather than universally accepted fact.
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