Adena Peoples - Other Peoples Pt 7

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AMERICA’S ADENA MOUNDBUILERS CLASS ROOM AAPS OCTOBER 2008

America’s Adena Moundbuilders: 

America’s Adena Moundbuilders And Their Burial Tablets By Ida Jane Gallagher. Author, Contact with Ancient America Epigrapher since 1982 and colleague of many advocates of ancient America for 30 years.

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Criel Mound, South Charleston, West Virginia Colonial explorers crossed the Appalachian Mountains and discovered large earthen mounds and geometric earthworks !! Who built these mounds? Why?

The Adena Moundbuilders: 

Adena built mounds to bury dead. Adena occupied valleys along Ohio River and its tributaries from about 1000 B. C. to 400 A. D. Later, Hopewell and Mississippian people also built mounds. The Adena Moundbuilders

The Adena Moundbuilders: 

The Adena Moundbuilders Adena people named after estate of Ohio Governor Worthington. In 1901 mound on Adena estate was excavated. Adena mound contained distinctive artifacts that identify the Adena group.

The Adena Moundbuilders: 

The Adena Moundbuilders <<< Adena pipe shows squat male, with goitered neck, and stylized hair. He wears ear spools and a loin cloth feathered in back.

The Adena Moundbuilders: 

The Adena Moundbuilders Replica of Adena shaman with a wolf headdress >>>> holds the Adena pipe. Adena may have migrated from Mexico due to their physical type and similar decorative designs. Both groups erected mounds over burial tombs.

The Adena Moundbuilders: 

Others maintain Adena mounds evolved from burial practices of earlier native people living in the Midwest or Northeast. The Adena Moundbuilders

The Adena Moundbuilders: 

The Adena Moundbuilders Burials of Adena elite contained: decorative objects, copper bracelets, mica, pipes, seed pearls, tablets incised with symbols, and tablets with ancient writing .

Grave Creek Mound, Moundsville, WV: 

Grave Creek Mound, Moundsville, WV

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Grave Creek Mound on Tomlinson farm excavated by local men. A tunnel started four feet above ground struck a lower tomb near the center. It contained two skeletons.

Grave Creek Mound Excavation: 

Grave Creek Mound Excavation Shaft sunk from top A second tunnel 34 feet above ground reached upper tomb with one skeleton and grave goods including an inscribed tablet. Tunnel to lower tomb

Replica of the Grave Creek Tablet: 

Replica of the Grave Creek Tablet

Replica of the Grave Creek Tablet: 

Replica of the Grave Creek Tablet 1 ½ x 2 inch tablet Grayish sandstone Three lines of Southwest Iberic script on one side translate: “The mound raised-on-high for Tasach. This tile his queen caused-to-be made.” Signs like cross and bird’s head

Replica of the Grave Creek Tablet: 

AUTHENTIC? Replica of the Grave Creek Tablet EARLY COPIES NOT ACCURATE TRANSLATIONS VARIED DISPARITY RAISED QUESTIONS Accepted translation by Dr. Barry Fell IN 1972

The Braxton County or Blaine Wilson Tablet: 

The Braxton County or Blaine Wilson Tablet School children Blaine Wilson and his sister found the tablet in 1931. Text parallels Grave Creek Tablet “The memorial of Teth. This tile (His) brother caused –to- be made.” (Barry Fell) Additional Southwest Iberic Tablets

The Braxton County or Blaine Wilson Tablet: 

Did Iberian scribes reach West Virginia by 100 B.C.? The Braxton County or Blaine Wilson Tablet Additional Southwest Iberic Tablets Did Iberians inscribe the tablets or teach Adena scribes their alphabet?

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An elongated cross with a head and a dot is below the last line of Southwest Iberic scipt. The Ohio County Tablet, West Virginia Teenager Robert C. Dunnell found the Ohio County Tablet in 1956 . I ¾ by 1 ½ inches

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Dunnell took tablet to Delf Norona at the Grave Creek Mound Museum. Archaeologist Norona’s original opinion was that Grave Creek Tablet was authentic. He later changed his mind because others said “fake.” The Ohio County Tablet, West Virginia

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Sam Shaw, editor, Moundsville Daily Echo newspaper, photographed tablet and interviewed Dunnell and Norona. The Ohio County Tablet, West Virginia Norona then said the Ohio County Tablet was “planted” to legitimize other finds. The tablet was lost!!

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The Ohio County Tablet, West Virginia Donal Buchanan, noted decipherer of Southwest Iberic, translated the message. “ This was set up for Lydia, wife, Jacob engraved it.”

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The Morristown Tablet Morristown Tablet was found near Morristown, Tennessee. Dr. Paul Cheesman reported it to epigraphic scholars in 1981.

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The Morristown Tablet Inscription is comparable to Grave Creek Tablet. Donal Buchanan found all symbols could be equated.

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The Morristown Tablet Conclusion: the inscription is funerary formula. Either the name “Tadach” is not a personal name or there were two people named Tadach on tablets.

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The Morristown Tablet Did someone make a copy of the Grave Creek Tablet? Was the Morristown Tablet ancient or modern? What do you think?

The Genesee Tablet: 

The Genesee Tablet William Johnson found Genesee Tablet in the Genesee River bed near Belfast, New York in 1975. Epigrapher Donald Eckler saw tablet in Dana Klein’s collection. Tablet measures 2” x 3”

The Genesee Tablet: 

The Genesee Tablet Eckler forwarded a photo to Dr. Fell. Dr. Fell wrote that the two lines were Iberic script. He called it a trader’s token which says: “Confirmation. I have pledged to pay in full.” Was this an early IOU?

The Genesee Tablet: 

The Genesee Tablet Genesee River was route traveled by Amerindians. Genesee Tablet on known trading route suggests that natives led foreign traders to America’s interior by water. St. Lawrence River and Great Lakes provided access from the Atlantic Ocean. Susquehanna River empties into Chesapeake Bay. Ohio joins Mississippi River that terminates in Gulf of Mexico.

Questions: 

Questions Was it possible for Iberian people to cross the Atlantic Ocean by 100 B.C.? Why would Iberians come to America? Did an Iberian scribe introduce Iberic script to Adena moundbuilders? Why? If Adena tablet script was invented by native people, what was its source?

CONCLUSIONS: 

CONCLUSIONS THE GRAVE CREEK TABLET IS GENUINE THE SCRIPT IS FROM IBERIA SCRIPT IS OLDER THAN 2000 Y.A. MANY PEOPLE CAME FROM IBERIA

Sophistication helps to estimate dates. : 

Sophistication helps to estimate dates. Turtle tablet =Adena cultural symbol. Gaithskill Tablet = figural tablet Hands, serpents, birds, and sun circles

Artifacts Found in the Upper Tomb: 

Artifacts Found in the Upper Tomb

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Fell’s Translation of the Grave Creek Tablet, reading right to left

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The C ontroversy over the Tablet’s Authenticity ?

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King Midas’ Tomb, Gordion, Turkey