I'm from NE Texas, near Paris. There are so many mounds there, one on private land is well over 40 feet& is known by locals to be built by native Americans. The story is Davy Crockett road through there, by horse, for 3 days& 3 nights without ever losing sight of a teepee. I grew up arrowhead hunting, I actually had a real nice obsidian point that rang like a bell when you dropped it on any hard surface, but being a kid I took it to school to show off& lost it.
@kathy4084
2 жыл бұрын
I’ve just discovered your excellent channel and really enjoyed this Pinson Mounds video! I’m especially grateful for your valid archaeological information that doesn’t veer off into conspiracy theories, but does include carefully demarcated personal speculation. That being said, I’ve noted a very different feel to the Woodland sites in comparison with the Mississippian sites (for example, Old Stone Fort vs. Mound Bottom). The information here is very rich and I look forward to watching all your other videos. I plan to visit the Pinson mounds soon.
@robbywyatt1212
2 жыл бұрын
I feel it was like a hunting /fishing reservation. If you look at the public LIDAR , I feel I found a fish and hook effigy and a deer hoof effigy in land scape on either side of the river. Worth a look. Stranger things have happened lol. I took some screenshots but can't post in comments. The LIDAR map is definitely interesting.
@edalmeida1218
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for another good video sir. We appreciate your efforts. 🙏🏼
@bobs.209
3 жыл бұрын
Nathanael, Just discovered your posts and really find your videos interesting and educational. The field you work in is fascinating and shows that what I was taught in my undergrad years is now obsolete. I look forward to going through all your past and future posts.
@NathanaelFosaaen
3 жыл бұрын
Welcome Bob! Glad you're enjoying the content. We've learned SO much just in the last 10 years. It's an exciting time to be working here.
@rowanpost6063
3 жыл бұрын
Love your videos. Please match the volume of the music at the end to the volume of your voice. The music is way too loud
@Houston123ABC
3 жыл бұрын
I really enjoy your videos! I'm an IT guy who wishes he had went into archeology.
@baref1959
3 жыл бұрын
hoping your heart is healing. you are a wonderful person. thank you for the vids!
@NathanaelFosaaen
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks fam!
@NASkeywest
2 жыл бұрын
My grandad was a farmer all his life in Tennessee. He told me about their being more mounds and ancient site that the Tennessee valley authority buried under the lakes when they damned up the valleys. There is no telling what all is hidden underwater now.
@NathanaelFosaaen
2 жыл бұрын
the TVA did a TON of archaeology on those sites back in the WPA era.
@christianbuczko1481
3 жыл бұрын
Cf-apps has an interesting channel, he posts alot of those types of monuments in america and finds new ones never identified or recorded. Have you seen that?
@NathanaelFosaaen
3 жыл бұрын
I had not, but I just took a look and his work looks pretty solid.
@tombombadil3185
3 жыл бұрын
At the risk of letting my personal opinion conflict with the science, I think the mounds were of a religious nature. After all, we have the cathedrals of Europe for examples. What else could motivate multi-generational groups to expend so much energy to build the edifices?
@ekpil
3 жыл бұрын
There's on e in Wisconsin north of Barneveld on HH
@timwilliams990
3 жыл бұрын
I lived near here and visited it often. A awesome site. Good info, good channel.
@atagreg1
Жыл бұрын
Pinson is an interesting site. The reason the mounds have numbers higher than 12 is because Myer's 1928 map of the site published by the Smithsonian showed 34 mounds there and they kept his numbering. Robert Mainfort decided more than 20 of them never existed because he couldn't find them. Myer's map is on a wall in the museum but the staff there are totally unfamiliar with the history.
@orlandosantos406
2 жыл бұрын
Nice work. We quite easily forget the flux that is the history of the Americas. The Jomon in Japan, the Valdivia in Ecuador, the oldest is the most sophisticated in some cases. What pushed the urban Mound Builders out?
@NathanaelFosaaen
2 жыл бұрын
Europeans. Etowah was still a city when the Spanish showed up.
@orlandosantos406
2 жыл бұрын
@@NathanaelFosaaen an Arab historian - his name escapes me at the moment - divided the world into nomads and city dwellers. The Iroquois developed a sedentary but warlike mentality, mobile, fast. I wonder whether the fact of city/town dwelling in itself, when confronted with a mobile organize group like the Iroquois, would result in a (western) Rome like collapse phenomenon, and then the de Jesuit incursions in the Ohio valley, the French fur traders, disease, etc. But before this post 15th century, writing existed in Central Mexico/Maya world for very very long time. The mound builder urban civilization, however, presents no evidence of writing. And you use the term "trading relations" rather than "civilization". So I wonder, have you ran into anything suggestice of writing north of the Rio Grande? De Las Casas described a world teeming with people, a far cry from scattered "hunter gatherers". And the early chronicles describe healthy natives, tall, strong, organized.
@NathanaelFosaaen
2 жыл бұрын
@@orlandosantos406 as you say, huge cities. Large hinterland populations, and much more cultural diversity than is commonly imagined. But they were completely illiterate. There is much more use of representational art and iconography used to pass information from generation to generation, but nothing in which the spoken word is converted to symbols the way the Mayan epigraphy does.
@orlandosantos406
2 жыл бұрын
@@NathanaelFosaaen I am in Toronto, Canada, so time for sleep! The various civilizations of Central Mexico, Teotihuacan, the Itzas and the various collapses, all common era it seems. Before common era, a blur, with evidence of writing being quite old. The Mississipi and Ohio valleys were very very close to these centres of learning. Curious that no evidence of attempt to record is found! Curious that fertile plains north of the Rio Grande did not do what the Nile, Euphrates, and Yellow rivers did. Or for that matter, if the path of travel was north to south, why was complex civilization south to north? Your video on the 30 000 year old steps was quite good. Good night.
@ncbluegrassevents1984
3 жыл бұрын
Study of the South American pyramids- sun worshipping temples- and human sacrifice. It was a world wide phenomenon- these sun mounds pyramids are all over the whole world.
@briancrowley922
2 жыл бұрын
Can you tell me if you know anyone specifically investigating the surveying and measurement of these mounds, or any other mound sites that you know of? I am fascinated by Harriet Smith's work at Cahokia and wondered if there was anyone who has continued to examine her work?
@NathanaelFosaaen
2 жыл бұрын
I don't remember who off the top of my head, but in Sassaman's Eastern Archaic Historicized he mentions somebody coming up with units of measurement that fit southeastern monuments.
@JohnBoy
2 жыл бұрын
I'm 10 miles south east of Pinson...I've found two giant mounds in the woods. One of them make a 5 acre footprint... It would hold 3 Pinson mounds on its platform top.
@eriknelson2559
Жыл бұрын
From the 6th to 10th centuries CE (AD), Roman civilization declined into the "Dark Ages", as global temperatures decreased (causing populations, like the Huns, to migrate out of harsher regions into the Roman world). Meanwhile, Teotihuacan and the Mayan city-states declined, in Meso-America, and the Hopewell interaction sphere (with its long-range trade routes & megalithic constructions) declined, in North America. OTOH, different sources give different enough dates for pre-Columbian events throughout the Americas that some or all of these apparent coincidences may well be spurious
@Trainspotter.777
8 ай бұрын
Pinson mounds is a pretty awesome place.. we used to go to Pow Wows there.. funny when I went to Chichen Itza & found it was the same Serpent Culture, just a tad different.. hence the serpent mound.. not enough people pay it mind glad to see a video on it
@ONE_OF_MANY-MANY_OF_ONE
Жыл бұрын
I used to live in Lavinia Tennessee. Lavinia is about 20-30 minutes from Jackson. I remember visiting Pinson Mounds several times. This was around the late 90's or so. I remember that the place had a certain vibe to it. It's definitely a place once seen, can never forget it. Do any of the mounds sit on Earth laylines like for instance The Great Pyramid of Khufu does? I believe Pinson Mounds sits on the 37th parallel, are their any that reside on the 33rd? And do you believe that certain mounds had giants buried within?
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