Video – The oldest known copper tools in the world are found in the Great Lakes region of the United States!

As seen above, they include sickles for harvesting grain.

The oldest known burial mounds in the world . . . 11,000 years old . . . are on the campus of LSU in Baton Rouge, LA. They are twice as old the next oldest mounds in France.

Some of the oldest permanent village sites in the world were unearthed by my late friend, Archeologist Bill Gardner near the Shenandoah River and Front Royal, VA. The villages were occupied from around 11,300 BP to 5,000 BP.

It appears that Savannah, GA is oldest, continuously occupied urban site in the Americas. The Bilbo Mound, Harbor and Village site dates from about 3,545 BC-800 BC. Nearby, in and around Downtown Savannah were mounds, earthworks and shell rings, which dated from a time spectrum varying from 4,800 BP to the founding of Savannah by the British in 1733 AD.

Archaeologist Robert Wauchope was astounded to unearth evidence that the Nacooochee Valley in Northeast Georgia was continuously occupied by humans from (at least) 12,800 BP to the present. At the time of European Contact, it contained the most advanced Indigenous culture, north of Mexico.

With these facts to gird my loins, I will continue to research the past of the Americas with an open mind and no theories. I will continue to view this Story as an unfinished book. However, you are about to see increasingly “slicker” graphics! and videos LOL

Richard L. Thornton, Architect and City Planner