Posted on 08/30/2005 7:52:19 PM PDT by Artemis Webb
OREGONIA, Ohio - Archaeologists say they have something new to study at Fort Ancient State Memorial. A previously unknown circular structure about 200 feet in diameter was detected recently during preliminary work for an erosion-control project at the site of 2,000-year-old earthworks, state authorities said.
More study will be needed to determine whether the structure is an earthworks or the remains of a ditch that held a series of large posts or of some other kind of structure, state authorities said.
"The reaction is 'Wow!'" Jack Blosser, Fort Ancient's site manager, said of the new find. Blosser said the last major discovery at the site was the remains of several homes found during excavation for a museum and garden area built in 1998.
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GGG ping
Ad at the center of the circle... a STARGATE
Jack O'Neill, where are you when we need you?
Cool! This is just up the road from me!
It's an Indian burial ground. We have lots of these in Ohio. In fact there's one just down the road from me.
I know my Dad dragged me here when I was a kid- now, as usual, I wish I'd paid attention. Forgive me, but where is Oregonia?
did you get that link?
I sincerely regret that this story may have to be surpressed! Should this circle have been built by an indigenous civilization destroyed by Asian invaders who became American Indians, all discussions will have to terminate. The left-wing is just so offended by any evidence that Indians are sweet and innocent folks.
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here's a story...
Sunken city discovered off the coast of Louisiana
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Ouachita River Mounds: A Five Millennium MysteryThe massive earthworks at Poverty Point near Epps were long considered the beginning of extensive mound construction. Non-native stones found on the site originated as far away as Wisconsin, Tennessee and Georgia indicate that Poverty Point was a major trade center circa 1500 BC. The Poverty Point culture spread over a large part of the Lower Mississippi Valley and flourished from around 1730 BC to 1350 BC. Until recently, Poverty Point was considered an amazing anomaly because no one had identified significant earlier sites... calibrated radiocarbon dates from several sites including Hedgepeth, Frenchman's Bend and Watson Brake... placed their construction between 3700 BC and 3000 BC. Saunders and others now have reason to believe that mound construction was widespread by 3000 BC in northern and southern Louisiana as well as Mississippi and Florida where other researchers have worked for years... When Allen obtained a core sample of the largest mound, he found advanced soil development. Saunders then decided the site was worth further study. Radiocarbon dating of Watson Brake places its construction in a 400-year period beginning at 3400 B.C. Watson Brake became a focal point of research into Middle Archaic mounds because it is larger, more securely dated and has been disturbed less than the others.
by Lori Tucker
circa 2000Myth Of The Hunter-gathererA site at Watson Brake, Louisiana includes 11 mounds 26 feet high linked by low ridges into an oval 916 feet long. What is remarkable about this massive complex is that it was built around 3400 B.C., more than 3,000 years before the development of farming communities in eastern North America, by hunter-gatherers, at least partly mobile, who visited the site each spring and summer to fish, hunt, and collect freshwater mussels. Most people think of hunter-gatherers as small bands of people roaming the landscape in search of food, incapable of such ambitious projects, but over the past two decades archaeologists have learned that many hunter-gatherers did the same things that only agricultural societies were supposed to have done. In short, they were socially complex. It forces us to rethink fundamental questions, such as why plants and animals were domesticated and why inequality developed in human society.
by Kenneth M. Ames
well, I'll be...
Myth of the Hunter-Gatherer
Archaeology | September/October 1999 Volume 52 Number 5 | Kenneth M. Ames
Posted on 08/13/2004 12:07:48 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
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Where is Oregonia??
I don't know what prehistoric farming skills have to do with the development of "inequality" in people.
Inequality exist because people are NOT equal. Now opportunity should be equal. Certainly too I am not speaking of systemic racial inequalities. I'm simply mimicking Jefferson's belief that there is a "natural aristocracy"
By the way...I'm about 5 or 6 notches below "peasant". :o)
On the West Coastia below Washingtonia.
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