What do Mesoamerican historians/enthusiasts think of this?

[SG-17]

Archaeological zone 9UN367 at Track Rock Gap, near Georgia’s highest mountain, Brasstown Bald, is a half mile (800 m) square and rises 700 feet (213 m) in elevation up a steep mountainside. Visible are at least 154 stone masonry walls for agricultural terraces, plus evidence of a sophisticated irrigation system and ruins of several other stone structures. Much more may be hidden underground. It is possibly the site of the fabled city of Yupaha, which Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto failed to find in 1540, and certainly one of the most important archaeological discoveries in recent times.

http://www.examiner.com/architectur...-old-maya-site-discovered-georgia-s-mountains

I've only skimmed the surface of precolonial Mesoamerican/Native American history, so I have no idea on the validity of the claims in this article.

 

[Bugfatty300]

I'm not a Mesoamerican historian/enthusiast but...

This sounds a lot like Serbian pyramids, Viking runes in Minnesota and 10,000 year-old sunken cities off the coast of Japan, etc.

Color me unimpressed.

 

[History_Buff]

Plus, terracing for irrigation is hardly unique to Mesoamerica...

 

[Tee Kay]

Georgia is not exactly Mesoamerica...

I'm not a Mesoamerican historian/enthusiast but...

This sounds a lot like Serbian pyramids, Viking runes in Minnesota and 10,000 year-old sunken cities off the coast of Japan, etc.

Color me unimpressed.

This really isn't such an improbable find; the US Southeast was known to have been home to sophisticated city-states (largest of which that we know of was Cahokia) and agricultural polities that disintegrated sometime between 1400 - 1650. I'd be very cautious about the Mayan refugee claims though; the ruins in question do not require the presence of Mayans or other Mesoamerican peoples to explain them; like history buff said, terracing is not unique to Mesoamerica. Neither do the presence of Mexican plants in the Southeast US (they come via trade routes) and the similarity of city plans (again, trade routes).

 

[bombshoo]

Apparently I'm a bad American because upon reading the headline Ruins in Georgia mountains show evidence of Maya connection, my immediate thought was "What on Earth are Mayans doing in Transcaucasia?!"

 

[ParkCungHee]

and the similarity of city plans (again, trade routes).

And you know, common sense.

 

[Bugfatty300]

I'd be very cautious about the Mayan refugee claims though

And that was what I was talking about. It's pretty well established that there were city builders in the south and Midwest that we don't know much about so I'm not really doubting that the site could be genuine. Were they Mayans? I doubt it.

 

[Traitorfish]

I looked up "Cahokia", and the mounds in the picture look vaguely Celtic to me. I think it's pretty obvious that it was founded by stray Welshmen.

 

[Joecoolyo]

Apparently I'm a bad American because upon reading the headline Ruins in Georgia mountains show evidence of Maya connection, my immediate thought was "What on Earth are Mayans doing in Transcaucasia?!"

I thought the same thing

 

[Lord Baal]

I thought the same thing

As did I.

I'm pretty sure there are supposed to be sunken cities in the Bahamas as well - though that might just be some crap I read online that's not true. Cities are far from unheard of in pre-Columbian America.

 

[Neonanocyborgasm]

They (Maya) had died en masse.

Looks like a kook story. The quote above corroborates that. The Maya did not die or migrate. They still live in that same region of Mexico to this day.