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72: Celestial Architectures of the Southeastern Moundbuilders is an informed, freethinking re-creation of ancient trade routes, rooted in research and serious fieldwork. Prehistoric hunters designed mound complexes reflecting what they saw: celestial architectures representing summer and winter locations with specific polygonal geometries (Astrotectures). This is a charged anthropological story which is described in a clipped, distilled manner by connecting the dots (over 1000 pictures) in an elegantly simple process of following prehistory's clues. Kirkus Reviews: "...McMahon's reasoning is far from far-fetched." The mounds at Watson Brake LA were built in the angular configurations of the North Star Belt, c.3400 BCE. Earth lodges were designed with an outer Moon circle, an inside Sun circle, and a Venus pentagon center aligned with the passageway. Venus, the lodge's womb, appears in the passageway every 8 years. Shoal Creek, Reinhardt, and Track Gap Rock glyph stone carvings are maps of Georgian prehistoric mound locations. Base line grid maps were developed over the last 5000 years to locate harbors, storage, temple, mining locations and their ancestral homes. The Aparesi Kora Meridian connects Apalachicola Bay, Kolomoki, and Agawa Bay Canada, and became the First Principal Meridian of the USA. Aparesi Kora means "From-ocean-descendants-of-People." The Winter Triangle (Orion the hunter and his loyal dogs) was used to connect locations of the mound complexes. Cygnus, the swan (Northern Cross), and Draco, the serpent, became the feathered serpent: the bird (sailing) and the serpent (ocean boat). Can we look without prejudice to the brilliance of the prehistoric Transocean seafaring hunters looking for gold and copper? The resultant celestial geometric and metallurgical diffusionism is observed in mounds and artifacts of the Southeastern Nor