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MuseumsSite Name: Funk Heritage Center
Country: United States Region: The South Type: Museum
Nearest Town: Marietta, GA  Nearest Village: Waleska, GA
Latitude: 34.321000N  Longitude: 84.553W
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Funk Heritage Center submitted by Andy B : The symbols on the 11 feet long boulder have been interpreted alternatively as Creek & Yuchi Indian time portals (stargates,) a star map showing planetary systems, or a land map showing locations of towns & villages. Credit: Funk Heritage Museum More photos here (Vote or comment on this photo)
Museum in Cherokee County, Georgia. Located at Reinhardt University, this is Georgia's Official Frontier and Southeastern Indian Interpretive Center. The museum is focused on interpreting the history of the Southeastern Indians and Appalachian settlers of the region.

Artifact collections include a large display of pre-contact stone and bone tools from the south-eastern United States. A large stone covered in petroglyphs, the Reinhardt Boulder, is also on display. In the "Hall of the Ancients" poster displays, dioramas, and films describe Pre-Contact lifeways based on archaeology and oral history and interaction between Old World colonists and Native Americans.

Other exhibits include a collection of colonial era tools and a contemporary art gallery.

The F. James & Florrie G. Funk Heritage Center Georgia's Official Frontier and Southeastern Indian Interpretive Center

Address: 7300 Reinhardt Circle, Waleska, GA 30183-2981
Tel: 770-720-5970

Hours and Visitor information may be found at the center's
website.

Note: Large cup and ring marked boulder in Southeastern United States is remarkably similar to rock art found in Ireland and northern Britain, claims made of a prehistoric link
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Funk Heritage Center submitted by Michelledubois : Reinhardt Boulder/Stone links early Bronze Age Ireland with Ancient Southeastern United States. Found in Georgia USA, this boulder/stone is on display in the Hall of Ancients in the Funk Heritage Museum on the campus of Reinhardt University. The stone is covered with petroglyphs of concentric rings, circles with crosses, stars and something that looks like a dogwood flower or primitive rose. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Funk Heritage Center
Funk Heritage Center submitted by Andy B : Designed by Architect Garland Reynolds, the exterior and interiors of this museum are traditional Native American architecture. Credits: Reinhardt Univerisity (Vote or comment on this photo)

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490 year old Spanish documents could describe an Irish province in South Carolina by Andy B on Wednesday, 08 June 2011
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Not connected to this stone but another controversial recent article from Richard Thornton:

A long overlooked report made to the King of Spain in 1521 provides an eyewitness account of an Irish province on the coast of South Carolina. The description of its culture seemed so absurd to scholars, not familiar with Irish history that it was ignored during the following five centuries . . . until now.

http://www.examiner.com/architecture-design-in-national/490-year-old-spanish-documents-describe-an-irish-province-south-carolina
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Link claimed between Early Bronze Age Ireland and the Southeastern United States by Andy B on Wednesday, 08 June 2011
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Richard Thornton's headline is
New evidence links Early Bronze Age Ireland to the Southeastern United States

Here is Richard's article: Many readers will know that as well as Ireland, such concentric circles crop up in many parts of Northern England and Scotland, and are even occasionally found in Wales. So while this is a very interesting parallel, it certainly doesn't specifically prove a link to Ireland. [MegP Ed]

For eleven years an enigmatic, 11 feet long boulder has been on display in the Hall of Ancients in the Funk Heritage Museum on the campus of Reinhardt University. Thousands of people viewed the boulder. All thought it was something very “special.” Few visitors could make sense out of the concentric rings, circles with crosses, stars and something that looks like a dogwood flower or primitive rose. These carved symbols are known to archaeologists as petroglyphs.

In 2008, Dr, Joseph Kitchens, Director of the Funk Museum, became determined to discover the meaning of the boulder in the heart of his museum. He began contacting archaeologists, petroglyph experts, and Native American scholars in hope of finding an answer. Although he modestly denies it, Kitchens himself, became knowledgeable on the petroglyphs of the Southern Highlands in the process of seeking answers to his own questions. He stated that one of his dreams is obtain more petroglyphic boulders that are now exposed to the elements, and put them safely on display in the Funk Museum.

One petroglyph consultant wrote a report interpreting the petroglyphs as being symbols associated with the Canaanite god, Baal. Another consultant interpreted the boulder as a star chart. It may be a star chart, but the researcher could not determine for which two nights of the year, the star chart would be accurate. Another expert decided that the boulder was a map of Cherokee towns. The only problem is that Cherokees did not arrive in the region where the boulder was found until after the American Revolution. Only a couple hundred Cherokees lived within 20 miles of this boulder and they did not live in towns. The petroglyphs appear to date from long before the 1700s, anyway.

In early 2011, Kitchens made contact with two organizations that were composed of innovative, but serious researchers. The American Petroglyphic Society is composed primarily of scientists and archaeologists. Its past focus has often been the petroglyphs of the Southwestern Desert, but more recently interest as spread to all of the Americas. Kitchens, also contacted several members of the People of One Fire, an alliance of Native American scholars (and their friends.) Members of the Society of Georgia Archaeology have researched some of the petroglyph boulders discovered in northern Georgia.

The Creek Indians have lived in Georgia for at least 2,200 years. Their ancestors built the state's famous mounds. Creek scholars told Kitchens that most of the designs on the Reinhardt boulder were not now part of their artistic tradition, and that in the past, the Creeks were more into carving realistic stone statues, not petroglyphs. They did notice a small cross within a circle, which is an important religious symbol for both the Creeks and the Yuchi's.

The Yuchi Indians have probably lived in Georgia at least several hundred years longer than the Creeks. Yuchi's in Oklahoma and Virginia sent word to Kitchens that the concentric circles WERE part of their artistic tradition. They symbolized "time portals" or "star gates." One mentioned a realistic stone tablet found in southeastern Tennessee, which he thought portrayed a Yuchi soldiers wearing a kilt with concentric circles on it.

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http://www.examiner.com/architecture-design-in-national/new-evidence-links-early-bro

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A visit to the Funk Heritage Museum by Andy B on Wednesday, 08 June 2011
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North American history didn’t begin with the arrival of European colonists and it didn’t end with the departure of Native Americans on the Trail of Tears. This outstanding museum in the Blue Ridge Mountains presents history as a continuum.

The "Funk" is considered the premier anthropological museum of the Southern Highlands.

Richard Thornton visits:
http://www.examiner.com/architecture-design-in-national/the-funk-heritage-museum-reinhardt-university
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