[SunkenCiv]

The moose was discovered by chance by local researcher Alexander Shestakov. Picture: Stanislav Grigoryev

[ClearCase_guy]

The geoglyph of the giant squirrel has not yet been discovered.

[DakotaGator]

I suspect Boris and Natasha were involved.

[XEHRpa]

Is this the Russian equivalent of crop circles?

[Nevadan]

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.

[BenLurkin]

'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.'

He knows because he was there.

[Ouchthatonehurt]

Cool post! Thanks.

[Defiant]

Maybe those hobbit people were helping with construction.

[Kirkwood]

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.

[Wuli]

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.

[The Cajun]

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

[outofsalt]

I got your giant moose.

[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.

[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.