Lost Worlds: Georgia Video Wins EMPixx Gold Award

noreply@blogger.com (Gary C. Daniels, LostWorlds.org) — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 18:13:00 +0000

Our video "Lost Worlds: Georgia" was recently awarded a Gold statue in the Education Video category of the EMPixx Awards. This contest awards excellence in video production techniques and content in a variety of categories. The judges noted the excellent use of 3D computer animations to recreate these ancient Native American towns for today's students.

You may learn more about the video and/or purchase the video in our store:
http://lostworlds.org/georgia_indians_video.html

New 3D Animations in Lost Worlds: Florida- Horr's Island Mounds & Tomoka Mounds

noreply@blogger.com (Gary C. Daniels, LostWorlds.org) — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:52:00 +0000

Two new 3-D computer reconstructions have been added to the Ancient Architects of Florida exhibit. The new reconstructions offer animated fly-overs of the Horr's Island Mounds site and the Tomoka Mounds site, two Archaic era Native American archaeological sites in Florida.

Visit the Archaic section of the Ancient Architects of Florida exhibit here:
http://lostworlds.org/fl_archaic.html

News page updated + 2 new blogs

noreply@blogger.com (Gary C. Daniels, LostWorlds.org) — Sat, 03 May 2008 03:45:00 +0000

I updated the News section by placing Google Gadget feeds showing the latest headlines for all my blogs. I also created two new blogs: Caribbean Archaeology News & Website Updates.

Ocmulgee Mounds page updated

noreply@blogger.com (Gary C. Daniels, LostWorlds.org) — Sat, 03 May 2008 03:42:00 +0000

I updated the Ocmulgee Mounds page in the Ancient Architects of Georgia exhibit. I included new videos and new information including:

-Earth Lodge radio carbon dates and possible connection with comet appearance
-Mexican pyramid site of Xochimilco as possible location mentioned in Creek Migration Legend
-Removed erroneous translation of "tallula" as Chickasaw for "leaping waters." It's actually the Hitchiti word for "town."
-New picture of Creek chief showing similarity between his clothing and Chontal artifact clothing
-new information regarding skeletal remains featuring cranial deformation

New video added to homepage

noreply@blogger.com (Gary C. Daniels, LostWorlds.org) — Sat, 03 May 2008 03:39:00 +0000

I added a new video in the Featured Videos section of the homepage. The video features a hoop dancer from the 2007 Seminole Powwow Music Festival in Tampa. It promotes the web exhibit "Public Indian Events of Florida" which features new videos from the 2007 fall powwow season.

Google Gadgets for blog added to homepage

noreply@blogger.com (Gary C. Daniels, LostWorlds.org) — Sat, 03 May 2008 03:37:00 +0000

I added new Google Gadgets to the home page. These gadgets feature the latest headlines from my blogs: "News: Native American Archaeology," "News: Native American Events," "News: Mesoamerican Archaeology," & "News: South American Archaeology."

You can add these gadgets to you iGoogle page or to Google Reader. (Or to another RSS reader of your choice.) You can also embed these gadgets into your own website.

Old News

noreply@blogger.com (Gary C. Daniels, LostWorlds.org) — Fri, 02 May 2008 21:03:00 +0000

Below are the news items previously listed at LostWorlds.org/news.html. They have been archived here due to the News section redesign & the creation of this new Updates blog. Enjoy!
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7/31/2007 Our Fort Mountain computer animated reconstructions were used in an episode of Atlanta station WSB-TV's Georgia's Hidden Treasures television program.

4/16/2007 HBO sent us a prescreening copy and asked us to review their upcoming movie I Buried My Heart at Wounded Knee. You can read the review in our Native American Events News blog.

12/27/2006 Lost Worlds: Georgia (2nd Edition) is released for sale to the public. It features a completely new edit featuring new computer animations and video footage plus a professional voice over narration to help tell the story of Georgia's first civilizations.

12/01/2006 Our Sapelo Shell Ring computer animated reconstructions were used in the "Archaeology" episode of Georgia Public Television's Georgia Outdoors television program. Click here to view the episode.

11/29/2006 Ancient South America News blog goes online with all the latest discoveries in South American and Andean archaeology.

6/28/2006 "Lost Worlds: Georgia" is accepted into the Independent Television Festival in Los Angeles.

6/27/2006 Tribune-Georgian newspaper publishes article entitled "Daniels Wins Award for Master's Thesis Project" highlighting the fact that the web exhibit and CD-ROM entitled "Lost Worlds: Ancient Architects of Georgia" were awarded the Roger K. Warlick Local History Achievement Award for Best Media Project by the Georgia Historical Society.

6/17/2006 Ancient America & Mesoamerica Exhibitions, Lectures & Conferences blog goes online with all the latest events.

6/16/2006 Ancient America & Mesoamerica Archaeology News blog goes online with all the latest discoveries.

4/21/2006 Public Indian Sites of South Carolina exhibit goes online.

3/30/2006 Ancient Architects of Georgia web exhibit and CD-ROM are awarded the Georgia Historical Society's Roger K. Warlick Local History Achievement Award in the category of Media Project.

3/13/2006 Public Indian Sites of Alabama exhibit goes online.

3/11/2006 LostWorlds.org is featured at SavannahNOW.com.

1/7/2006 Ancient Architects of Florida exhibit goes online.

11/19/2005 Lost Worlds of Georgia (1st Edition) DVD is featured in the Georgian-Tribune Newspaper in Camden County, Georgia.

10/4/2005 I discovered even more evidence supporting a central/western Mexican origin for Georgia's Moundbuilders. In the Ocmulgee Mounds exhibit I include a comparison of several place names that are similar in both Georgia and Central Mexico (and even having the same meaning!). I also added an image of the Chontal mortuary effigy statues that are similar to statues created by Georgia's Moundbuilders.

In the Etowah Mounds exhibit I added an image of a male & female human effigy statue found buried in western Mexico that are amazingly similar to the male & female human effigy marble statues found buried at Etowah. (Even the face painting is similar!)

Thus the Creek Migration Legend seems to be correct when it states the Creeks migrated from the west from an area featuring volcanoes-- central Mexico.

10/3/2005 Lost Worlds of Georgia (Expanded Edition) DVD is completed and is available for sale to the educational market.

9/21/2005 Ancient Architects of Georgia CD-ROM is released for sale to both the educational and consumer market.

8/24/2005 I recently added a painting by the artist Catlin created in the 1800s which depicts a Native American ballgame that he witnessed. This image helps illustrate the discussion on the ballgame played at Etowah. Click here to view the updated page.

8/22/2005 Finished production on Ancient Architects of Georgia CD-ROM.

08/21/05 I added new information to the Ocmulgee Mounds exhibit regarding the Creek Migration legend. I recently came upon information about a Mexican tribe called the Chontal who lived in western Mexico and disappeared from the archaeological record around 600 AD. I feel like this is about the time period that the Creek Migration may have begun. Based on some of the Chontal artifacts, I proposed in the Ocmulgee Mounds update that these may be the ancestors of the Creek Indians. Click Here to Visit the Ocmulgee Mounds Exhibit

7/12/2005 Lost Worlds Online Store officially launches featuring exclusive designs based on the Lost Worlds of Georgia website exhibit.

04/30/05 Lost Worlds: Georgia (1st Edition) DVD officially launches and is available for sale to libraries and educational institutions. School.LostWorlds.org is launched to help promote the DVD.

04/15/05 LostWorlds.org goes before thesis committee and is accepted as fulfillment of Master's thesis requirements in the Film, Video and Digital Motion Imaging program at Georgia State University in Atlanta. LostWorlds.org officially launches!

04/05/05 New videos, computer animations, and Quicktime VR panoramas added to the exhibit "Ancient Architects of Georgia" for Fort Mountain.

03/19/05 New "Sapelo Shell Rings"-themed products in our museum store including t-shirts, postcards, posters, mousepads, coffee mugs, etc.

03/15/05 New videos, computer animations, and Quicktime VR panoramas added to the exhibit "Ancient Architects of Georgia" for Sapelo Shell Rings.

2/27/05 New exhibit goes online: Georgia Before Oglethorpe. This exhibit was originally published by John E. Worth at SpanishFlorida.net and was recently taken offline. It featured invaluable information about Georgia's indigenous chiefdoms and the impact of Spanish, French, and English colonial efforts on them. Thus I have decided to archive the site here at LostWorlds.org.

2/20/05 New exhibit goes online: Public Indian Sites of Florida. Features archaeological parks, museums, living history museums, history centers, and other places that are devoted to telling the story of Florida's indigenous tribes.

2/15/05 LostWorlds.org officially becomes an affiliate chapter of the Georgia Historical Society.

1/29/05 Updated the museum store and added a music store featuring Native American music CDs.

12/29/04 New videos added to the Ocmulgee Indian Celebration and Running Waters Powwow pages in the Public Indian Events in Georgia exhibit. Features Native American flute performances and intertribal dancing.

12/27/04 New videos added to the Rossville Powwow page in the Public Indian Events in Georgia exhibit. Features Native American flute performances and intertribal dancing.

12/15/04 New exhibit goes online: Public Indian Events in Georgia. Features Native American festivals and powwows throughout the state of Georgia.

12/13/04 New image galleries go online for the Georgia Capitol Museum page in the "Public Indian Sites of Georgia" exhibit.

11/11/04 New Quicktime VR panoramas and virtual tours added to the exhibit "Ancient Architects of Georgia" for Ocmulgee Mounds and Etowah Mounds.

10/28/04 New videos, computer animations, and image galleries added to the exhibit "Ancient Architects of Georgia" for Rock Eagle.

10/26/04 New image galleries go online for the Nacoochee Mound and Kolomoki State Park pages in the "Public Indian Sites of Georgia" exhibit.

10/18/04 New image galleries go online for the New Echota Historic Site, Ocmulgee National Monument, Chief Vann House, Etowah Mounds and Rock Eagle pages in the "Public Indian Sites of Georgia" exhibit. Thanks to the Georgia Dept. of Economic Development for use of their images. Also added to the Ocmulgee National Monument page a link to a video entitled "Ocmulgee: Mysteries of the Mounds" featured at ArchaeologyChannel.org. Added a new image gallery for the Rock Eagle Effigy Mound and Etowah Mounds pages in the "Ancient Architects of Georgia" exhibit. Added two new pages: About Us and Services.

10/08/04 Donation page goes online allowing LostWorlds.org to start collecting contributions from site visitors who want to help fund future exhibitions.

10/03/04 Free newsletter goes online offering the latest updates to LostWorlds.org and the latest archaeological news & discoveries from sites throughout the Americas.

10/01/04 Museum store goes online offering books from Amazon.com, videos from the History Channel, posters from AllPosters.com, and hand-made native crafts from Worldstock.com. All proceeds will fund future exhibits at LostWorlds.org.

09/21/04 New videos, computer animations, and image galleries added to the exhibit "Ancient Architects of Georgia" for Kolomoki Mounds and Ocmulgee Mounds

05/05/04 LostWorlds.org goes before project committee and gets the greenlight to go ahead with the development of this website.

05/04/04 First edition of LostWorlds.org goes online. Includes Southeastern Indians of Georgia video and videos, computer animations and image galleries for Etowah Mounds.