Posted on 07/21/2010 7:25:26 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Just northeast of Cincinnati, Ohio, a sort of wooden Stonehenge is slowly emerging as archaeologists unearth increasing evidence of a 2,000-year-old ceremonial site... Like Stonehenge, the Ohio timber circles were likely used to mark astronomical events such as the summer solstice. Formally called Moorehead Circle but nicknamed "Woodhenge" by non-archaeologists, the site was once a leafless forest of wooden posts. Laid out in a peculiar pattern of concentric, but incomplete, rings, the site is about 200 feet (57 meters) wide. Today only rock-filled postholes remain, surrounded by the enigmatic earthworks of Fort Ancient State Memorial (map). Some are thousands of feet long and all were built by Indians of the pre-agricultural Hopewell culture, the dominant culture in midwestern and eastern North America from about A.D. 1 to 900. This year archaeologists began using computer models to analyze Moorehead Circle's layout and found that Ohio's Woodhenge may have even more in common with the United Kingdom's Stonehenge than thought -- specifically, an apparently intentional astronomical alignment.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.nationalgeographic.com ...
I say, when you've got an anachronistic phony madeup religion, and you're already imposing it on long-dead and prehistoric people about which almost nothing is known, you're obligated to spread it around.
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It spelled out “Go Buckeyes”
Either that or “Art Modell is dead to me.”
The building of ceremonial circles is truly ancient going back thousands of years in many parts of the world.
For a variety of reasons the American Midwest didn't support a civilization with millions of inhabitants until quite recent times but that didn't mean something wasn't going on.
Tracing back maybe 7,000 years the agricultural development area in the vicinity of Mammoth Cave appears to have developed SQUASH into the incredible variety of useful gourd and squash based foods we have today.
They didn't build large stone structures like their cousins in MesoAmerica, but their squash plants got there anyway!
No, given where it is in Ohio, it clearly says "Who Dey".
In ancient times, ‘undreds of years before the dawn of ‘istory,
lived a strange race of people, the Druids,
No one knows who they were, or what they were doing there,
but their legacy remains hewn into the living rock of Stone’enge.
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Always High - but high on what? maybe that is the real question.
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Seems to me to be a stonehenge it’s got to be made of stone—if it’s made of cars it’s a carhenge, if it’s made of wood it’s a woodhenge.
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“sort of wooden Stonehenge is slowly emerging... the site is about 200 feet (57 meters) wide”
Naaaah— They used it as an Arena Football field in the summer and as a hockey rink in the winter
[Arena football field`s length is 200 feet (61 m))same as as a standard NHL hockey rink]
FYI ping..
By 1 BC the American Aborigines had created a crude annual calendar based on Sunrise patterns.
By now maybe they would have invented the wheel./s
Maybe it was an Alien landing sight for night landings the holes were giant torches lighting the way to land ....
Or it could be one of the first fenced in farms in ohio i’ve seen fences in ohio that look like they were built a couple million years ago...
I’m Gonna have to check out this site just out of curiosity now.
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