Footnote

DNA test markers for Southeastern Indigenous Peoples are finally going to be published in a book about movement of peoples around the world. I can’t tell you any more, for now.

Hernando de Soto visited one of their towns. The Spanish spelled their name as Guaxule. In English phonetics, their name would be Washawlee. Their name survives on the landscape as Wassaw Sound near Savannah, GA and Waxhaw, SC. The word means “Ocean People” in several Polynesian languages. However, the presence of Austronesian DNA in the Indigenous Southeastern Peoples is far more prevalent than the place names suggest.

by Richard L. Thornton, Architect and City Planner

Through my professional work for a scientist, who grew up in Georgia, but lives elsewhere now, I am privy to some fascinating information. It would be unethical for me to be more specific, until the book is published. I will let readers know when the book is available.

Via the interpolation of genetics with archaeological discoveries and historical archives, the scientist will trace the movement of peoples around the planet. His discoveries slap anthropological and genetical orthodoxy in the face.

It has been my complaint all along that geneticists were making grand statements about mankind’s past with too few samples of our genes. Most of the indigenous peoples of the present-day United States lived in the Southeast and Mississippi River Basin, yet consumer-oriented DNA labs do not carry any DNA markers from those regions. There are absolutely no genetic studies of the people, who lived in the Tennessee Valley, Moundville, AL, Ocmulgee Mounds, GA or Etowah Mounds, GA before Columbus’s voyages.

It’s a whole New World out there in anthropology . . .