The moose was discovered by chance by local researcher Alexander Shestakov. Picture: Stanislav Grigoryev
Posted on 11/06/2014 7:27:03 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Remarkable new details about giant moose released as archaeologists confirm stone structure is world's oldest.
Children were involved in the construction of a geoglyph in the Urals which was only discovered thanks to images taken from space. It predates Peru's famous Nazca Lines by thousands of years, archaeologists have announced. But they are no nearer answering why ancient man made it, nor can they yet fathom which group built the geoglyph; archeological traces found so far in the area do not show a culture with sufficient refinement...
Located near Lake Zyuratkul in the Ural Mountains, it stretches for about 275 metres and depicts an animal with four legs, antlers and a long muzzle...
Perhaps the most interesting development is that tools found at the site indicate it was worked on assiduously by children as well as adults in a large-scale community accomplishment. Of 155 tools found beside the geoglyph, the majority were used for digging or breaking stones...
The moose was discovered by chance in 2011 by local researcher Alexander Shestakov after he spotted it trawling through satellite images from Google Earth.
...archaeologists say the Russian moose was drawn in a style similar to petroglyphs found in Finland. Excavations of nearby land could provide further clues as to its origins and to the people who made it. Radiocarbon dating has been carried out, narrowing down the period in which the geoglyph was created to between 3,000BC and 4,000BC, some 5,000 or 6,000 years ago.
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The moose was discovered by chance by local researcher Alexander Shestakov. Picture: Stanislav Grigoryev
The geoglyph of the giant squirrel has not yet been discovered.
I suspect Boris and Natasha were involved.
children?
;’)
I thought the moose was bad e nof, Boris.
“I suspect Boris and Natasha were involved.”
No! It was moose and squirrel!
Is this the Russian equivalent of crop circles?
That's cause it's in the air. It's a flying squirrel.
Good thing they didn’t hire Union laborers. They’d still be working on it.
I find the find fascinating. However, the statements made with such certainty are laughable: ‘But it was not a kind of slave labour of children. They were involved to share common values, to join something important to all the people.’ 6000 years ago, and these researchers think they can get into the minds, culture, and motivations of an ancient civilization they just discovered.
He knows because he was there.
Cool post! Thanks.
Maybe those hobbit people were helping with construction.
When I was a kid, we used to scuff out designs in the snow with our feet because mom wanted us out of the house.
Quite.
I think there is a connection to star images in the night sky, but in a manner less than direct to specific stars.
I think just as ancient humans looked at the starry sky and “connected the dots” of some stars, seeing in them a pattern that represented something to them, and also seeing the “skies above” as of significance to their religious beliefs, they made their own images on the land, which they thought would mean the “G-d’s” in the heavens could look down and see them.
In the instance of the recent find in the Ural’s, it could have been a communal “thank you” to “the G-ds” for an animal that was very important to them.
Maybe Mr. Peabody and his boy Sherman could travel in the wayback machine and get the story.
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