Mary and all,
Our history does stretch back several thousand years but
it's recording was problematic. There was apparently a huge
native settlement in what is today Southeastern Oklahoma. Google
for Spiro Mounds and read the first article that shows. Briefly,
the Spiro People were native Americans that developed a high
culture there from AD 800 until around 1450. The Mounds are 8
miles outside the modern-day town of Spiro, Oklahoma and are
loaded with ancient artifacts showing that the Spiro people
traded all over North America, had elaborate religious
ceremonies and wrote in a hieroglyphic picture-based language.
A lot is still a mystery such as why did the society
decline around 1450. Nobody can blame that one on the Europeans
but something went wrong.
People continued to live in the area, but civilization
levels went way down.
In the past, the reason for declines like that is
related to climate and or agricultural collapse. Again, look up
the Spiro Mounds and the article will get you started.
It also says that this site is the only prehistoric
human settlement in Oklahoma but it is one of the most important
in North America. Thankfully, it is well-protected now so we can
hopefully learn more.
I an a friend in college who was from Spiro, but had no
idea how important this small town is. By the way, the I is long
so you say "spi ro" and you will be saying the way it is said,
here.
Martin
Mary Stores writes:
> Hi,
>
>
> Actually, we do have a history that stretches further back than 1492 A.D.
> It's just all over Europe. lol
>
>
> Mary
>
> Quoting Gordon Keen <[email protected]>:
>
>
> Hi
>
> Welsh is a form of gaelic and that predates english in all it's forms
> by several centuries if not millennia.
> The celts were thought to have originated in what is now upper
> Hungary and migrated slowly via Greece to Egypt then along the North
> African coast crossing the land bridge between modern day Morocco and
> Spain. They then moved north in to France and the low countries
> until they crossed the North sea and forced the Beaker people in to
> the outer regions like Cornwall and Scotland gradually being absorb
> in to the Celtic tribes and became the ruling class until the Romans
> arrived.
>
> It's wonderful what D.N.A can tell us about the migration patterns of
> our ancestors.
> Of course it helps to have a history that stretches back further than
> 1492 A.D. !
>
> Cheers
>
> G
>
>
>
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