Posted on 12/12/2006 4:26:26 PM PST by blam
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When I was a kid we went to Mounds state park. I think it's in Indiana. I really enjoyed the trip even at 14 years old. Going to ancient archaeological sites was the main focus of the trip.
The mound structure doesn't appear to be following elevation contours. Why wouldn't they have built less wiggly?
No surveyors?
I know of such a mound in Indiana that is kept secret by the local farmers. They don't want outsiders coming around to mess with it out of respect to the indians who lived there a couple hundred years ago. Some call it a burial mound, others call it a gathering place for ceremonies. It has been covered by trees for several generations. There was a nearby indian village (about 1.5 miles from the mound) where you can still find arrowheads and tools. Much of it has been picked over (including by me as a kid), but no one has dug there with tools, only picked off the surface.
Thanks. Another great mystery waiting to be solved.
I hope, if and when I get to Heaven, there will be a class, detailing the true history of this wonderful and strange place, we call Earth.
I'm sure you know of the place linked below.
I visited it myself a while back.
Just a piggy back on your post.
http://www.stonehengeusa.com/
The Appalachians are so f'kin old . Euro peons just don't get it. I remember a Spanish travel agent gal laughing at the thought of a trip down the Ohio river in a boat. In her mind if there was not a Moorih castle , there was no history. I told her she was an ingnorant slut. But she did not have the intelligenge to sleep with me.
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I think there will be, and I can't wait to learn forever.
Thank you to the link to the maps, fascinating information.
Wow, all their life work, was spent on a wall.. what fantastic.... intelligence?... is that the word I'm looking for?
At a glance, and of course I could be wrong..The mounds follow tha contours of the land with an equal setback on all sides.
Could be to prevent fire? Sneak attack?. I don't know.. perhaps there were Sentries posted at the openings to sound an alarm if there were wild animals entering. It may be one giant hunting trap. After all these years, who knows how steep those walls once were.
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I camp out one time, just one stinkin time, and so if I left a couple things behind. Geesh, will they ever leave me alone!
You are correct. Mounds State Park is in Anderson, Indiana, approximately 25 miles northeast of Indianapolis.
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