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.
(Excerpt) Read more at siberiantimes.com ...
Are we sure thats not just an awesome Go-Cart Track??
Yeah. It was obviously of great religious significance...
Snort! Well, I almost typed it with a straight face...(8^D)
Rocky & Bullwinkle?
8-)
In a stone age society, children would be half the available work force. And it isn’t like this depended on physical strength like some agricultural tasks like pulling a plow.
How do we know that is supposed to be a moose? Why would it have such an exaggerated snout?
Another thread that you posted some time ago was about an ancient figurine that had been discovered. The researchers were calling it some sort of fertility symbol, as they saw it as depicting a man with greatly exaggerated sex organs.
It did not look much like a man to me, and someone — probably you — commented about a more plausible meaning of the figurine. It seemed to be dated around the assumed time of an astronomical event — a supernova explosion, I think — that would have been visible from Earth. And the comment was that the figurine was more likely portraying the appearance of this event.
Perhaps this “moose” is such a work.
Well, it was a homeshool project. And the researchers forgot to include the fact that nearby a stone CD was found that had a recording of these children singing “We Are the World; We Are the Children”.
They actually say they haven't even found any other traces of the culture. It would be just as valid for them to say that it was made by slaves imported from India.
"Science"
Not exactly Nazca quality is it?
I know it was 6000 years ago, but just damn.
Them folks should have had a little talent :)
Measure twice, cut once.
Heh... they had no CPS back then. Also no vid games, TV, streaming audio...
2,000-year-old youth organization
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/11/141105084711.htm
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