Another ‘Stonehenge’ discovered in Amazon

MSNBC ^ | June 27, 2006 | Stan Lehman

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

SAO PAULO, Brazil - A grouping of granite blocks along a grassy Amazon hilltop may be the vestiges of a centuries-old astronomical observatory — a find that archaeologists say shows early rainforest inhabitants were more sophisticated than previously believed.

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[RightWhale]

Precession of the equinox is apparently not commonly known. Thought everybody knew after the hit song "Age of Aquarius". How can an archaeologist function in the world without knowing these elementary facts?

[freedumb2003]

Stucco-Henge?

[Mike Darancette]

May be 2,000 years old

About half the age of Stonehenge.

[SuziQ]

Or, it could be just a pile of rocks.

[Lazamataz]

Another ‘Stonehenge’ discovered in Amazon

David: I do not, for one, think that the problem was that the band was down. I think that the problem may have been...that there was an eighteen-inch Stonehenge monument on the stage that was in danger of being crushed by a dwarf. Alright? That tended to understate the hugeness of the object.

Ian: Nigel gave me a drawing that said eighteen inches. Alright?

David: I know he did, and that's what I'm talking about.

Ian: Now, whether he knows the difference between feet and inches is not my problem. I do what I'm told.

Jeanine: The audience were laughing.

Ian: So it became a comedy number.

David: Yes it did! Yes it ***ing well did, and it was not pleasant to be part of the comedy on stage. Backstage, perhaps, it was very amusing.

[RightWhale]

The description is not complete or accurate enough to know what they are talking about.

[guitar4jesus]

Looks like the Griswolds have already been there!

[KarlInOhio]

On the shortest day of the year — Dec. 21 — the shadow of one of the blocks disappears

Ok, I could buy this if the rock is tilted at a little more than 23° south of vertical.

when the sun is directly above it.

No, no, no! If the site is just north of the equator, the sun will be as far away from directly overhead as possible on the winter solstice.

Also the shortest day of the year really doesn't make much sense here. If it is 2° north of the equator, the day's length varies by about 15 minutes from the summer to the winter solstice.

[Loyal Buckeye]

Made in China.

[BibChr]

So that's where they all went....

Dan

[Wolfstar]

Art is busy right now with the child he married three months after Ramona precipitously died.

With all of his retirments and returns, the thing about his son supposedly being raped by another man, and then the sudden death of his wife, something about all of Bell's ups and downs never rang true to me.

Although I just learned within the past few days that he's now living in the Phillippines, I didn't know he got married again. Just another reason for me to be skeptical of his strange saga.

[AmericanChef]

The one in the back looks like a Pokemon.

[caryatid]

Just another reason for me to be skeptical of his strange saga.

You and me both!

[Wolfstar]

You and me both!

Sometimes I think I'm the one living in the Twilight Zone, so it's good to know others beside myself are skeptical of him. :)

[dfwgator]

"But it says here, 18 inches high, on the napkin!"

[caryatid]

I only hear bits and pieces of the program. I leave talk radio on [the only station we get] for a feral cat I am socializing. Late at night I take my laptop over to the cottage when I go to spend time with her [the cat]. My husband always laughs at me when I come back to the house ... I always tell him something or other that I have heard on "that wierd program". Sometimes it is so wierd that I am scared to death walking across the dark yard back to the house ... ! LOL

[TN4Liberty]

Check out the photo in post 5. Hard to believe that the "no shadow" stone is still in exactly the same place they put it 2000 or so years back, when everything around it looks like rubble.

[COBOL2Java]

Another ‘Stonehenge’ discovered in Amazon

I thought Amazons were supposed to be virgins...

[Just another Joe]

The word Patagonia means 'the land of the giants.'

(best valley girl voice) Well of couuuurse. Like, where do you think Gigantor lizards came from anyway, Lilliputia?

;^)

(BTW, blam, I know where Patagonia is but it doesn't show it on the map)

[xp38]

So it seems we are doing bloody Stonehenge again after all! Man those Druids got around.