A New Understanding of the South Atlantic Coast . . . from Chesapeake Bay to Key West

A New Series in “The Americas Revealed” for the remainder of 2025

Recent international genetic and linguistic studies prove that the orthodoxy created by the archaeological profession in the late 20th century was ALL WRONG. The Southeastern Indigenous Peoples were the hybrid descendants of many peoples from many parts of the world.

The Clovis Culture obviously was begun by a people, who arrived by sea at the mouth of the Savannah River. Their unique stone tools then spread across much of North America to peoples, who had migrated from Siberia.

The Algonquins on the North Atlantic Coast appear to be descended from Asiatic and Proto-European peoples, who crossed directly over the Ice Cap from an ice-free zone in Northeastern Siberia to eastern Canada, using sleds pulled by dogs or reindeer.

The Panoan Peoples of eastern Peru speak several words, which are pronounced the same and mean the same as words spoken today in Sweden and Denmark. The name of Ossebaw Island, GA is derived from two of those words!

by Richard L. Thornton, Architect & City Planner

Readers probably thought that I was going off topic this past winter, when I discussed the Yamnaya Culture of the Eurasian Steppes. I knew something else, but couldn’t divulge the confidential information. Ancient Pre-Columbian Yamnaya DNA has been identified in modern-day Native American descendants of the tribes in the Eastern United States and Canada. The Deptford Culture, which began at the Deptford Mound in Savannah, GA contained stone and ceramic artifacts identical those made by the peoples of Northwestern Europe, who were descendants of the Yamnaya intermarrying with Neolithic farmers.

A 35-year-long regret

As mentioned in some earlier articles, on the night of December 15, 1990, Smithsonian archaeologist Dennis Stanford plopped down in Vivi’s place, when she went to the restroom. On the way back, she was corralled by the Director of the National Museum of American History, Roger Kennedy and National Geo archaeologist, George Stuart. Dennis proceeded to consume vast quantities of my goat cheese and Ambassador Andreani’s expensive French wines.

Dennis told me about his discoveries in the Tidewater Region and archaeologist Bill Gardner’s astonishing discovery of `large villages, up to 10,000 years old in the Shenandoah Valley. These discoveries refuted the belief that all Indigenous Americans came across the Bering Strait. I told him about seeing many petroglyphs in southern Sweden, which were identical to those in the Georgia Mountains.

Dennis was dumbfounded by my descriptions of the Swedish Bronze Age petroglyphs and was puzzled why no Georgia archaeologist seemed to know this fact. In a few months, Gardner’s firm would become my consulting archaeologists for historic preservation projects.

Vivi eventually appeared and told me that our hostess had politely suggested that we relocate our increasingly passionate PDA to the Guest Quarters. As an employee of Sutton Place Gourmet transferred the wine and cheese to our pending Love Shack, Dennis quickly scribbled his autograph and pass code to the back of a Smithsonian business card. It gave me free entrance to the National Museum of American History and admission to the inner sanctum of its Archaeology Department.

Alas . . . I never returned Dennis’s offer of friendship. In April, my life entered the Twilight Zone. When he learned in the summer of 1992 that Vivi and her daughter were staying on my farm, he invited them and me to visit the archaeology lab then join he and his wife, Jodi, for dinner. Vivi and Aimee soon had to leave for France and stay out of the USA for six weeks prior to returning with a business-owner’s permanent visa. We postponed the invitation to late September. Then my life went far deeper into the Twilight Zone. The first of several murder attempts occurred.

Although the theories by Dennis Stanford and his colleagues about Solutrean peoples from France skimming the edge of the Ice Pack during the last Ice Age to reach Virginia might not be totally correct, the genetic and linguistic discoveries made in the last year suggest that the Truth is far closer to Dennis’s theories than to archaeological orthodoxy.

Countercurrents of Prehistory: What Private Alleles and Rare Genes Have to Say about Human Migrations is now published and available from Amazon.com. I am now allowed to quote the orthodoxy-shattering messages that our Native American genes have to tell us.

I therefore, dedicate this series to Archaeologist Dennis J. Stanford.

To Dennis Stanford (1943-2019)