Pottery reveals America's first social media networks

(Washington University in St. Louis) Long before Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook and even MySpace, early Mississippian Mound cultures in America's southern Appalachian Mountains shared artistic trends and technologies across regional networks that functioned in similar ways as modern social media, suggests new research from Washington University in St. Louis.

from EurekAlert! - Archaeology http://bit.ly/2Ei9T7v