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Children from lost civilisation 'helped build' geoglyph some 6,000 years ago
Siberian Times ^ | 3 November 2014 | Anna Liesowska

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 ...


TOPICS: History; Science
KEYWORDS: godsgravesglyphs; lakezyuratkul; russia; siberia; uralmountains
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To: ClearCase_guy

Are we sure thats not just an awesome Go-Cart Track??


21 posted on 11/06/2014 8:49:07 PM PST by DanielRedfoot (Creepy Ass Cracker)
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To: Nevadan
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.

Yeah. It was obviously of great religious significance...

Snort! Well, I almost typed it with a straight face...(8^D)

22 posted on 11/06/2014 8:52:23 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: SunkenCiv
That is one bad, ugly and poor depiction of a moose.


23 posted on 11/06/2014 9:14:49 PM PST by The Cajun (Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin, Mark Levin, Mike Lee, Louie Gohmert....Nuff said.)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

Rocky & Bullwinkle?


24 posted on 11/06/2014 9:32:58 PM PST by Tucker39 (Welcome to America! Now speak English; and keep to the right....In driving, in Faith, and politics.)
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To: The Cajun

8-)


25 posted on 11/06/2014 11:47:59 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: SunkenCiv
I got your giant moose.


26 posted on 11/07/2014 2:57:50 AM PST by outofsalt ( If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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To: GeronL

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.


27 posted on 11/07/2014 4:11:56 AM PST by tbw2
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To: SunkenCiv

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.


28 posted on 11/07/2014 4:57:05 AM PST by Bigg Red (Too many productive Americans are POWs in the War on Poverty.)
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To: Nevadan

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”.


29 posted on 11/07/2014 4:59:06 AM PST by Bigg Red (Too many productive Americans are POWs in the War on Poverty.)
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To: Nevadan
6000 years ago, and these researchers think they can get into the minds, culture, and motivations of an ancient civilization they just discovered.

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"

30 posted on 11/07/2014 7:25:01 AM PST by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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To: SunkenCiv
What I find remarkable is that this researcher thinks he needs to come up with some tortured explanation why children would work alongside their parents.


31 posted on 11/07/2014 1:42:36 PM PST by colorado tanker
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To: The Cajun
LOL

Not exactly Nazca quality is it?

32 posted on 11/07/2014 2:20:58 PM PST by TigersEye (ISIS is the tip of the spear. The spear is Islam.)
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To: TigersEye
Not exactly Nazca quality is it?

I know it was 6000 years ago, but just damn.

Them folks should have had a little talent :)

33 posted on 11/07/2014 8:14:49 PM PST by The Cajun (Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin, Mark Levin, Mike Lee, Louie Gohmert....Nuff said.)
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To: The Cajun
And to think they committed that design to a 900 ft. glyph.
No wonder there is no trace of their culture left. lol

Measure twice, cut once.

34 posted on 11/07/2014 8:38:44 PM PST by TigersEye (ISIS is the tip of the spear. The spear is Islam.)
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To: colorado tanker

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


35 posted on 11/08/2014 4:25:40 AM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______________________Celebrate the Polls, Ignore the Trolls)
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