Professor shares Andean discovery, a 4,000-year-old temple

Columbia Missourian ^ | April 25, 2006 | Ryan B. Schreiber

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The Temple of the Fox lay covered by dirt and sand for 4,000 years in the barren hills of Buena Vista, Peru, before it was unearthed in June 2004 by Robert Benfer, professor emeritus of anthropology at MU... In the 33-foot high Andean temple, Benfer’s team found the earliest known astronomical alignment and sculptures in the New World... For Benfer, the most significant finds from the temple were the numerous astronomical alignments, suggesting that the Andeans used constellations to guide their lives... However, these astronomical alignments no longer point to significant constellations and will not do so again for approximately another 22,000 years, Benfer said. He said these minor positioning differences prove that the astronomical alignments are not simply coincidental.

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This personified disk, believed by archaeologist Robert Benfer to be a representation of the Andean God of the Earth, Pancha Mama, was unearthed in June 2005 in the Temple of the Fox. On June 21, the beginning of the ancient Andean harvest, the disk appears to frown upon sunset. (Photo courtesy of Project Buena Vista)

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Cool.

Temple of the Fox found in Peru

Kavita Kumar and Emily Dulcan
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
04/24/2006

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Click HERE to see images of the ceremonial architecture uncoved in the main room of the temple mound at Buena Vista during excavations in the summer of 2004.

Photo credit: N. Duncan

Click image to vist project site.

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The first Unhappy Face.

Can we used this to overturn the copyright on the Smiley Face?

What effect will this have on Mr. Yucky-Face, the ugly thing the Poison Control Center uses?

Do those now come under the 'Culture Theft' provisions of that insane (aren't they all!) UN treaty?

Come on, Papa Umm-mao-mao; turn that frown upside down! You look like the eclipse-demon you ate upset your tummy! Look around you! The sun is shining; the birds are singing, the slaves are being whipped; what's to frown about?

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Thanks for the link to the photos.

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Thanks!

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