Children from lost civilisation 'helped build' geoglyph some 6,000 years ago

Siberian Times ^ | 3 November 2014 | Anna Liesowska

[DanielRedfoot]

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

[Smokin' Joe]

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)

[The Cajun]

That is one bad, ugly and poor depiction of a moose.

[Tucker39]

Rocky & Bullwinkle?

[BenLurkin]

8-)

[outofsalt]

I got your giant moose.

[tbw2]

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.

[Bigg Red]

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.

[Bigg Red]

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”.

[Straight Vermonter]

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"

[colorado tanker]

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.

[TigersEye]

LOL

Not exactly Nazca quality is it?

[The Cajun]

Not exactly Nazca quality is it?

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

Them folks should have had a little talent :)

[TigersEye]

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.

[SunkenCiv]

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