Posted on 08/25/2018 9:36:10 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Deep within the jungle on the Samoan island of Savai’i lies a big heap of stones half the size of a football field. This is the Pulemelei Mound — also known as the Tia Seu Ancient Mount — and nobody really knows when it was erected, or why it is there.
With a base measuring 65 meters by 60 meters (213 feet by 197 feet), Pulemelei Mound consists of a foundational platform of volcanic rock supporting multiple layers of natural basalt stone, piled on top to a height of 12 meters (23 feet). The structure is pyramidal with flat top. Several purposes have been proposed for this structure, including use in religious ceremonies, as a lookout platform, or as a burial monument. It most likely served multiple functions, but in truth the reason for its construction and the role that it played remain unknown.
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subtitle, "An unmarked, overgrown path through dense vegetation leads to the largest ancient structure in Polynesia."
I'd like to point out that the structure is believed to be medieval in date, which is kinda ho-hum.
Pacific vistas DAVE LONSDALE (CC BY 2.0)
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/found-tropical-plant
Go look for this one, please....
Built by relatives of the Menehuni perhaps.
Now you're talking. That place gives mainstream archaeologists the heebee jeebees.
Pulemelei for skiing or “Cool Running” practices and the other for Human Sacrifice or short bungee-jumping.
About the same initial age -- but Nan Madol is Micronesia, not Polynesia. :^)
Probably not early enough for that.
As soon as it snows. :^)
Whew, I'd wondered where I'd lost that.
Ancient Celtic / Scottish Viking sites in New Zealand!(?)
The Little Doctors & Martin Doutré? | October 2003
Posted on 04/11/2006 9:19:16 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1613129/posts
It was almost certainly an astronomical observatory for marking the solstices and perhaps lunar events
Wow. Another day of learning about some place or some thing new to me. Thanks, SC!
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It is absolutely certainly just a pile of Earth, and not a particularly large one at that. Could be a burial mound, but I'm not too sure there's any such tradition in the Pacific. Could have been just a piled up spot to build a settlement during a cooler period when there was a lot of standing water around.
Heh... same here... it was mentioned by the late JAW in his second (?) appearance on Joe Rogan’s show:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGu7MLp574A
I think this is the first one, haven’t tackled it yet:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1hFBZfcZhQ
to a height of 12 meters (23 feet)
New math.
23 feet? I've dropped more into an outhouse! :^)
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