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Debate over the earliest human settlement in the Bahamas is getting an update. Archaeologists from Texas A&M University at Galveston now assert that the area was colonized far sooner than we have been taught. In a new study published in PNAS (Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences), professor Peter van Hengstum, reports that environmental records from 120-foot deep ‘Blackwood Sinkhole,’ filled with pristine organic material, show that well before dates previously claimed, the area was populated by an indigenous group now called Lucayans.

The new study appears to buttress findings by researchers Drs. Greg and Lora Little, and reported in Atlantis Rising Magazine #98 (March/April, 2013). Massive quarried stone ruins about 30 miles south of Bimini were reported at the time by the Littles. Dubbed “Brown’s Ruins” (named for Eslie and Krista Brown, the divers who found it) the site aroused considerable speculation in some quarters that it might be a relic of Atlantis. Atlantean or not, the anomalous features and the clearly artificial character of the site made it difficult to explain in standard academic terms.

The Little’s were searching for evidence to support claims by both Plato and Edgar Cayce, and over the years they have produced many examples to support their belief in the existence of ancient civilization in an area beneath theancient water for at least 10,000 years ago. Their discoveries have been documented on the History Channel.

In “Brown’s Ruins” they were investigating a site under water for at least 6000 years, and that has no documentable history of indigenous population. According to the conventional time-line, the area was not settled until about AD 500 to 700. Atlantis was said to have sunk around 9500 BC.

The Bahamas, says Van Hengstum, was the last place settled in the area. Fourteen thousand years ago, at the end of the last ice age people were present in the area, but until recently, it was thought, they did not cross the Florida Straits before AD 700. Now the research at Blackwood Sinkhole has turned up probable Lucayan skeletons and fire pit evidence dating to AD 1200 to 1300.

In the meantime discoveries like those at Brown’s Ruins continue to go virtually unnoticed.