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Left: Drone-acquired orthoimage of the site showing major features discussed in the paper.
Right: Thermal images mosaic collected from 11:15 pm-12:15 am. (Images from Figure 6 of the study).
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“Professor Casana describes the circular feature as a “council circle,” which were centers of tribal communities in North America, believed to have associations with astronomy, but they also served as ceremonial, political, and defensive structures.”
Might be a good way to trap passing game animals.
So all that Mormon stuff was true, huh?
Too late to PING so PONG
So, this land should be given to some Indians?
More possible proof that many of whom we labeled as Native Americans, probably originally came from across an ocean and settled.
I really enjoy these discoveries as I studied seriously North American pre-Colombian history in college many years ago (when learning something was actually a requirement for graduating).
However, I am always wary of the great leaps of faith often taken by the individual discoverers to make their site so very important. This simple discovery fits that pattern.
What evidence do they have of all this besides the fact that it is a circle? It could also be any number of innocuous and less interesting things. Not saying that it isn't a tribal circle, but where's the beef?
Great. More finds for some more fiction stories.
“an ancient, circular shaped ditch measuring 50 meters wide and approximately 2 meters thick”
Assuming that this “scientist” meant diameter and deep.
Never seen a thick ditch...must be metric system speak
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Maybe this will be a modern intact find from the Mound Builders area not pillaged by 19th and early 20th century “explorers”.
Maybe it was a septic system.
I first used this thermal technology 35 years ago to measure the mechanical condition of aerator heads within 60 acres of aerated lagoons. I used it a second time 30 years ago to survey 1000 something miles of petroleum pipelines for locations that may have had historical spill contamination.
In other words, this technology has been around for some time. What is different is the radically decrease in cost and weight of the gear. For the lagoon application, a movie camera size sensor was mounted in a helicopter door on a gyro stabilized frame. A thick umbilical cable connected the sensor to a heavy battery pack and a computer. The pipeline project used similar equipment except it was smaller and lighter and was mounted in the open door of a Cessna.
Hmm... photos taken from drones operating at night over farmland. Sounds like the solution to another ‘mystery’ that had folks all loading their 12 gauges awhile back.
