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Wooden "Stonehenge" Emerges From Prehistoric Ohio
National Geographic News ^ | July 20, 2010 | unattributed

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.

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TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: archaeoastronomy; godsgravesglyphs; megaliths; megatoothpicks; nephites; ohio; stonehenge; woodhenge
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To: Joe 6-pack

Nice :D


21 posted on 07/22/2010 7:17:24 AM PDT by correctthought (Hippies, want to change the world, but all they ever do is smoke pot and smell bad)
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To: bunkerhill7
"Naaaah— They used it as an Arena Football field in the summer and as a hockey rink in the winter..."

If it's native American, it was probably a casino.

22 posted on 07/22/2010 7:18:44 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: SunkenCiv
Wonder if it was built the same way?


23 posted on 07/22/2010 9:44:43 AM PDT by colorado tanker
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