Comments by "J ay" (@Jay-ho9io) on "Ancient Americas" channel.

  1.  @floridaman318  absolutely incorrect. The entire state, from the keys to the panhandle has a rich human history that distantly predates European invasion.
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  2. Fourthed.
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  3. And some of its most common spices. Peppers define human cuisine in so many cultures on every continent except Antarctica. But they only came from the Americas.
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  4. I really appreciate all the effort you placed into this and the humility and integrity it took and takes to revisit old material of yours and update it.
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  5. Mostly because they weren't necessary. I strongly suggest f "Feeding Cahokia" by Dr. Gayle Fritz, There was a very wide and nutritionally stable food base in central North America, so while I'm sure potatoes would have been appreciated, there wasn't a need for them.
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  6.  @stupidminotaur9735  so you don't have a name for the paper. From the University of I completely made it up. Noted.
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  7. ​ @AncientAmericas  echoing silence
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  8. ​ @Gekumatz it's a troll.
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  9. Got to love it. Blame the plant, not the cultures that have abused what it provided to the utmost degree to make it as unhealthy as possible. Corn is just fine for you, but if you're going to go out of your way to make an industrial culture that prizes mass and volume and caloric density over health, you're going to end up screwed no matter what you use as your foundational input.
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  10. Where is the specific source you got that supposed statement from?
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  11. Over 256 languages in North America. You're going to have to narrow it down some.
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  12.  @birgaripadam7112  in Nahautl (The Aztecs were a people, Nahautl is a language. They spoken as did many other people in the area) the word for maize is "cintli."
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  13.  @floridaman318  does saying stupid things loudly make you feel better? What part of raising you did your parents fail at, that being the loudest idiot on a stage validates you somehow? Is it because women don't find you attractive? Did your mom not breastfeed you or something? Dad not show up for something? "Cope more" is funny coming from a human being who's sole form of attention comes from acting out online to get the negative attention of others. Your life's your penance.
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  14. Everything the fellow Florida Man said (god bless the educated ones.) You're doing great work.
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  15. FIRST THING Thank you so much for this body of work, the effort and professionalism involved, and the obvious love you have to bring underappreciated history like this to light. Can't say that enough. Copper was harvested from a variety of locations throughout the Mississippian sphere of influence (and farther, obviously, but my area of study is Mississippian.) A significant amount of the copper that was sourced by the Etowans was from Duck Town. Copper Working Technologies, Contexts of Use, and Social Complexity in the Eastern Woodlands of Native North America Kathleen L. Ehrhardt Journal of World Prehistory volume 22, Article number: 213 (2009) And sadly dated (It's a 2017 reposting of a 1958 article) but On the Source of Copper at the Etowah Site, Georgia Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 January 2017 Vernon J. Hurst and Lewis H. Larson Jr. You've got a subscriber and you're going to get a patron out of this. I'm going to spread the word of this channel. Both at the museum and throughout the Peach State archaeological society. EDIT: also I appreciate all the effort you put into disparaging the conspiracy/butthurt supremacists. Jesus Christ these people come out of the woodwork. Our exhibit brought a lot of great information to light and I really loved educating people. But a holy shit did it uncover a deep vein of nutjobs, grave robbers and bigots.
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  16. Just use dogs, and shotgun the occasional resistant varieties. If you go full shotgun all the time they'll only become adaptive. And if you use the crop duster you just poison your corn. Dogs are the way. Trust me.
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  17. I hear you so much. In 2017, a team I was part of at Tellus museum in Cartersville Georgia put on unexhibit on the mineralogy of the Mississippian city of Etowah. You can only imagine how many nut jobs came out either raging about giants or streaming that anything from little green men to protonazis to Conan the Pacific Sailor were the reasons for every possible technical ability that culture displayed. But the good news is a great deal of people really did receive it well, and we were able to punch holes in a lot of those conspiracies and educate people. I spent two years working on that project, docenting both at the site and the museum and it was one of the high points of my life, tbh. Don't give up the work. Just because people don't talk about it doesn't mean the history didn't happen, doesn't mean there weren't great cultures with great stories prior to european invasion. The state of archeology in the Americas, particularly Central North America is awful but that leaves tremendous room for improvement doesn't it. This channel is great work, so kudos to him, and I hope your work continues and you bring even more light to this.
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  18.  @ProtomanButCallMeBlues  farming was a huge part of Central North American and northern North American life going back into the woodlands. You're way off. Buffalo as a lifestyle was a component of several cultures restricted to one general area of central and northern North America. It was not the norm for the majority of it.
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  19. ​ @AncientAmericas  It's a two week old sock puppet account.
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  20. ​ @AncientAmericas feel absolutely free not to or to keep it at the bottom of the list. That particular subject has been done to death. Pre-European colonization is fresh, exciting and highly underreported. And very much appreciated.
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  21. Mostly because they weren't necessary. I strongly suggest feeding Cahokia by Dr. Gayle Fritz, There was a very wide and nutritionally stable food base in central North America, so while I'm sure potatoes would have been appreciated, there wasn't a need for them.
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  22. And by that convention, you're from Africa
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  23. ​ @AncientAmericas  4 month old sock puppet account, probably related to David
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  24. Have you seen some of the comments here? Tin hat & 1940 one armed stretch crowd is deep. They get pissy about having their pet conspiracies molested with facts.
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  25. "Maize is one of the most important food crops in the world and, together with rice and wheat, provides at least 30% of the food calories to more than 4.5 billion people in 94 developing countries. In parts of Africa and Mesoamerica, maize alone contributes over 20% of food calories."- Springer, 1984 Go tell them that.
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  26. "I can't do it so it's bullshit" Is maybe not the best method of determining whether or not something is BS or not. I can't build a nuclear reactor. They still exist.
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  27.  @AncientAmericas  I don't work for Tellus Museum (in Cartersville Ga,) but that's where I did work at, and who with.
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  28. It really isn't. Could you please let a local university know where you located that? Or even better, contact the Chitimaca TPHO? Mailing Address: P.O. Box 661 Charenton, LA 70523 Physical Address: 3287 Chitimacha Trail Charenton, LA 70523 337-923-9923; Fax- 337-923-6848 E-mail: THPO@chitimacha.gov Thank you
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  29. "What would the world look like without maize" Famine intensifies
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  30. Where?
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  31.  @ThomasSmith-os4zc  Thanks.
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  32.  @ThomasSmith-os4zc  REALLY appreciate the full title.. thanks again.
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  33. ​ @AncientAmericas  It's really okay, no one's actually bothered by it there's just a subset of people that like to complain as some kind of particular flex.
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  34. Mississippian cities were mining, quarrying and working copper into the time of the desoto invasion. Copper Working Technologies, Contexts of Use, and Social Complexity in the Eastern Woodlands of Native North America September 2009Journal of World Prehistory 22(3):213-235 DOI:10.1007/s10963-009-9020-8 Is a start and will have a pretty complete bibliography for you to go ahead and read deeper on the subject
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  35. So many
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  36.  @zebedeetotty  yes
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  37. ​ @TheDanEdwards The human you're talking to is somebody that is filled with an enormous amount of self-hate and rejection of their own past. There should be some sympathy for that. For some people, particularly those of a rather underdeveloped sense of confidence, it's hard to look at the challenges and abuses that have happened to their culture historically and presently and not want to create some kind of mythology that makes it all more bearable. Whites do it, some black people choose to do it, people from all other places, many folks choose to do it. It's understandable and more pitable than anything else. The middle passage absolutely happened, as did the great societies of Southwest Africa. No one with a heritage from there needs to go shopping for a manufactured factory past.
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