Richard Thornton: Maya in America, The Untold Story of Ancient America

Earth Ancients

Cliff Dunning

Society & Culture, Social Sciences, Science

4.4 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2016

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

Maya in America is a new book that shows how the ancient Maya not only reached the shores of Florida and Georgia but had a thriving gold mining operation in the north Georgia mountains.

Author Richard Thornton is a Creek Indian architect, city planner, author and researcher into Native American history. His professional work in support of archaeologists began in college, when he received a fellowship to study Mesoamerican architecture and urban planning in Mexico. In 2004 he began carrying out research projects for Native American tribes that studied their cultural history. He is a founding member and newsletter editor of the People of One Fire, a national alliance of Native American scholars. In parallel, Richard has been then architect for the restoration of several hundred buidings dating back to 1746 throughout the Southeast. On his Caucasion side, he is a direct descendant of the first leader of the Georgia during the American Revolution, a Continental officer, and Creek Indian leaders, who were allies of the Patriots.

Several of his historic preservation projects were associated with personalities or events of national importance, such as the American Revolution, Civil War battlefields, the Great Locomotive Chase, the Rev. Sam Jones, and several famous Southern writers. In 2009, he was the architect for Oklahoma's Trail of Tears Memorial in Tulsa, OK.

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0:00.0	Block Talk Radio. I'm gonna be in'm going to be here.
0:25.0	You are all in the area. Oh, oh, yeah. Oh, This is Graham Hancock. You're listening to Earth Ancients with Cliff Dunning.
1:25.2	And I hope you're doing well today.
1:28.4	You know, we're into supposed to be winter here in California.
1:34.0	And I have friends on the East Coast,
1:36.4	you guys over there out in the sea,
1:41.5	the board of the side of the other side of the country are getting hammered. I mean hammered.
1:48.0	Minniered. Minus 20, minus 30 below. I can't believe it. I really, I remember when I went out to Boston,
1:59.1	this is like, I'm going to say seven years ago, and I'm a native Californian born in Oakland and I went out to
2:07.3	Boston to do some business and I brought what I thought was you know was heavy clothing you know.
2:15.0	Let's see what was that it was like a downcoat heavy heavy shirts you know heavier
2:28.3	hiking socks for you know but I had no clue no clue about the cold out in the East Coast. Time I was in
2:41.4	Boston and this is like I'm going to say February I can say the middle of
2:45.6	February right about right now it's funny I think it was minus three or minus four and that's cold for me. I mean if it's
2:59.5	50 degrees it's cold for me. So I remember being so uncomfortable I went to a store and got
3:07.4	long drums with thermals and I put those on and I ended up wearing those 24-7 I couldn't believe it I mean I wore I was there for a week I wore it just all the time in bed and walking around I was just so cold and I don't know it is one of those things you have to be born into to really appreciate that kind of weather.
3:32.0	Anyhow I feel for you guys out there on the East Coast from Maine all the way down to I guess New York and maybe some of the inland areas like, I don't know, all those states that deal with those cold
3:48.2	fronts.
3:50.2	Here in California, we are hoping for more rain. We thought the El Nino was going to be slamming us and we've had about coming on two weeks of fairly dry weather.
4:02.6	Gorgeous, I mean, we're having a little bit of a heat spell too.
4:05.9	It's been like 70 degrees average.
4:08.0	So don't be jealous because we're suffering from lack of water out here we could use some snow so supposed to
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