brade wrote:Back to church everyone.
Are they claiming that when the Tennessee Valley Authority flooded the region that this site disappeared?
brade wrote:Back to church everyone.
BartBurk wrote:brade wrote:Back to church everyone.
Are they claiming that when the Tennessee Valley Authority flooded the region that this site disappeared?
brade wrote:I can't find anything about this supposed ancient temple in Tennessee. Anyone else been able to find anything?
tapirrider wrote:brade wrote:I can't find anything about this supposed ancient temple in Tennessee. Anyone else been able to find anything?
The photo comes from the Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 118, 1938, "An Archaeological Survey of the Norris Basin in Eastern Tennessee" by William S. Webb. It is plate 108 in the photos and is Site No. 19, Cox Mound.
The photo can be seen online at this link
http://archive.org/stream/bulletin118sm ... 7/mode/2up
You can download the entire report from this link
http://archive.org/details/bulletin118smit
Site No. 19, Cox Mound, can be read on pages 161 to 179. These structures are known to have been built by Native American peoples during the Mississippian period approximately AD 900-1500. The report gives many examples of burial comparisons to known practices of the Creek Indians and others.
The claim made on the video about it being a temple comes from an old newspaper article of 1934 from the Associated Press. Here is a link to one of the papers that published it.
The Florence Times, Florence Alabama, March 23, 1934
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=cS ... gypt&hl=en
The claims being made in the Lost Civilizations of North America DVD are not supported with science. Here are more links to scientists' statements and writings about the DVD.
Statement about "The Lost Civilizations of North America" DVD
http://ohio-archaeology.blogspot.com/20 ... ns-of.html
"In our opinion, there is no compelling archaeological or genetic evidence for a migration from the Middle East to North America a few thousand years ago, nor is there any credible scientific evidence that Old World civilizations were involved in developing Native American cultures in pre-Columbian times."
Civilizations Lost and Found: Fabricating History - Part One: An Alternate Reality
http://www.csicop.org/si/show/civilizat ... ernate_re/
Civilizations Lost and Found: Fabricating History - Part Two: False Messages in Stone
http://www.csicop.org/si/show/civilizat ... _messages/
Civilizations Lost and Found: Fabricating History - Part Three: Real Messages in DNA
http://www.csicop.org/si/show/civilizat ... _messages/
I hope these links and information help.
Thank you! Have you been able to find any basis for their claims that Egyptologists were brought in and asserted that what was found was similar to Middle Easter temples? I can't find any mention of that anywhere.
tapirrider wrote:You can also see the picture in one of Wayne May's books.
http://books.google.com/books?id=akOQXA ... 6&dq=false
He says it is stone ruins, but it is not.
If you notice on page 165 of An Archaeological Survey of the Norris Basin in Eastern Tennessee, by William S. Webb
http://archive.org/stream/bulletin118sm ... 4/mode/2up
"The earth piers shown in the photographs of the excavations contained post fragments which were being "treated" before being removed from the ground."
"This pair is one of seven such pairs found in the south wall, as shown in plate 108. The earth pillars were left, as they were necessary to support these post remnants, and the earth prevented the posts from drying excessively before the excavation was completed."
The picture does not show stone ruins at all, it shows cedar posts encased in the dirt left on them during the excavations. That is why I want to read Harris's "Temple in Tennessee". Did he even visit the site, or did he base his ideas on the picture?