C. 1500 BC . . . The Itzas establish a colony on the Pacific Coast of Chiapas

The inherent wanderlust, artistic talents, maritime skills and entrepreneurial nature of the Itzas would be the spark that would set off an explosion of cultural advancement in Mexico. The indigenous peoples of southern Mexico had already proved themselves to be master farmers, but tended to be conservative otherwise.

The South America and Caribbean Basin Series

by Richard L. Thornton, Architect & City Planner

The Itzas intermarried with locals then began spreading across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec

Recent ground-breaking genetic studies that will soon be published in The Countercurrents of Prehistory by Dr. Donald N. Yates, suggest that Austronesians, originally from Taiwan, made contact and intermarried with Pacific Coast peoples, originally from Siberia. Polynesians returned to South America at a much later date.

Hybrid Austronesians subsequently worked their way through the Caribbean Basin and along the Gulf Coasts of Mexico and the United States. Dr, Yates obtained DNA samples of Uchee descendants, whose ancestors lived in the Lower Savannah River Basin. The results suggest that their ultimate ancestors were Austronesians from Taiwan . . . not Siberians. Deptford Check Stamped pottery in Georgia is almost identical to Austronesian Check-Stamped pottery in Taiwan, the Philippines and Japan. Indeed, many Uchees in Oklahoma, who look like “full-blood” or “almost full-blood”,carry almost no typical American Indian DNA markers.

It should be added, however, that the Uchee tribes within the interior of the Southeastern United States have Gaelic, West Germanic, Iberian, Itza Maya or Sami (Lapp) names. There were many Sea Sami traditions and words associated with all the Uchee tribes. This suggests that there was a great deal of mixing between Sea Peoples, who arrived on the South Atlantic Coast of North America.

The Itzas were one of those peoples, who probably spun off from this mixing of genes in South America, As they established colonies along the Pacific Coast, they carried with them the South Americans” knowledge of pyramid and town building, plus the fabrication of pottery. The Gulf Coast of southern Mexico would not begin building earthen mounds and pyramids or make sophisticated pottery until around 1000 BC. Most of the Mesoamerican words found on Eastern North America’s landscape are Itza words.

Geographical and tribal names of Mesoamerican origin in North America