Now these are interesting because Cuba was easily conquered by the Spanish, in fact in Three years all the organised resistance was over, with the Spanish using his habitual methods : http://www.columbia.edu/~daviss/work/files/presentations/casshort/
The Maya Establish a Presence in North America
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Stupid question but. Aren´t the Mississippian Cultures archaeological sites really Mayan or mesoamerican, if you prefer, Influenced anyways? i mean the little that is know are clearly, to my perception, more close related with the Maya, Aztec, and Meso-american motives that to the late Native American motives?
i mean the Etowah Plates could pass for Aztec or Mayan Archaeological rest if not where excavates from Etowah
Examples Etowah
Examples Maya
Examples Aztec
olmec
I think the overwhelming majority of North American archaeologists and specialists in the Southeastern and art of the Southern Cult would disagree with you. I'm a retired professional archaeologist and I would argue that the SE cultures and the Mississippian cultural tradition was an indigenous North American development that, at most, may have benefitted from occasional and low intensity diffusion of traits from MesoAmerica,.
The genetic evidence linking chickens specifically to Polynesian origin looks shaky.
However, unless the radiocarbon dates were wrong (possible, I suppose) or the bones were not really chickens (less probable), then there's still evidence of pre-Colombian contact. Polynesians are the most likely candidates for that.
