Posted on 10/18/2017 4:58:19 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Discovered mainly through satellite images, a few of the gates are actually located on the side of a volcanic dome that once spewed basaltic lava, researchers found.
The gates "are stone-built, the walls roughly made and low," David Kennedy, a professor at the University of Western Australia, wrote in a paper set to be published in the November issue of the journal Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy. The gates "appear to be the oldest man-made structures in the landscape," Kennedy noted, adding that "no obvious explanation of their purpose can be discerned."
The smallest of the gates extends about 43 feet (13 meters), while the longest is 1,699 feet (518 m) long, or longer than an NFL football field. Many have multiple stone walls that, in some instances, form a rectangular design; some of the others, called "I" type gates, have only one stone wall with heaps of stone at each end.
"Gates are found almost exclusively in bleak, inhospitable lava fields with scant water or vegetation, places seemingly amongst the most unwelcoming to our species," Kennedy wrote. Thousands of years ago, he noted, the landscape was more hospitable to human life. Other types of stone structures — such as "kites," which were used to hunt animals, and "wheels," named for their shape — have also been discovered in these lava fields.
The kites, wheels and other types of stone structures were typically found to be built on top of these gate-like walls, suggesting that the gates predate these stone structures, Kennedy said. The remains of lava flows are also sometimes found on top of the gates, indicating that the gates are also older than some of the flows, Kennedy said.
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Your better off with the camel
There was a guy around here recently convicted for agreeing with you. We are generally short on camels so he was making friends with various horses. Im not sure, not going to bother to try and find the articles but, this might be the dame guy who was, um....collecting roadkill deer.
I was thinking the something similar until I noticed the one with 3 partitions. The central pne has an odd shape with it narrowed on both ends and the central animals would be hard to get to or move efficiently. I suppose that in a resource poor area that the extra effort in rearranging fencing within the pen area may have been a better solution than trying to build more pens from scratch.
Do you want Cthonians?
Because that is how you get Chthonians.
Excellent!
while the longest is 1,699 feet (518 m) long, or longer than an NFL football field.
Wow... the scale they use is way off, and they just HAVE to bring NFL Football into it, don’t they?
Unless my math is wrong, and it quite possibly is, an NFL football field is 100 yards from goal line to goal line, and each end zone is 10 yards, so it’s 120 yards, or 360 feet long. So, 1699 feet would be over 4.5 times as long as an NFL football field.
Early example of a burger joint like sonics. Selling camel burgers, fries and a sand shake.
I ran across this article, and thought it might interest you. I couldn’t get the video to play, but there might be more about this moon cave at another site.
https://www.aol.com/video/view/huge-cave-discovered-on-the-moon/59e8ba0f83b51f7cee168d81/
Another interesting African mystery is found in the area of the Okavanga (sp?) Delta in southern central Africa. There you will find an area over 300 miles square with many parallel lines that appear to be irrigation ditches, roughly a mile apart. These are in several large clusters of greater and lesser clarity as if they were thousands of years apart in age. The nearest “civilization was Great Zimbabwe to the east which flourished from around 1100 to 1500 CE, although the Shona people probably were in the area as early as 400 CE. The link below is about GZ and the Shona.
http://www.ushistory.org/civ/7d.asp
This second link is a 5 minute aerial video which shows vast areas covered by the canals/channels. Remember, these are about a mile apart, and the canals themselves are at least 700 feet wide. I am amazed that only one man seems to be really interested.
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