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‘Council House’

Indigenous council houses (such as this reconstructed example at Mission San Luis de Apalachee in Tallahassee, Florida) were the site of public gatherings and ceremonies for early American communities, and evidence for them has been located in many sites around the Southeast. (Photo courtesy of the UGA Laboratory of Archaeology)
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Did Democracy Have A Separate Origin In The Americas?

· 15 June 2022 · Comments off

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Democracy is widely understood to have arisen in the Mediterranean world about 2,500 years ago before spreading through cultural contact to other parts of the globe. But new research from the University of Georgia Laboratory of Archaeology, together with its partners in the Muscogee Nation, indicates that inhabitants of the […]