Posted on 11/03/2009 12:13:27 PM PST by BGHater
Astro ping.
ping
Didn’t the Anesaszi practice cannibalism? Some unpopular researcher found gnawed human bones or something?
30% of astronomical phenomenon are now missing.
Yer neighbor - it’s what’s fer dinner.
Old Native American saying.
;-)
marking for later read.
Can’t be true - Native Americans were peace-loving folk, completely in harmony with each other and with Nature. It was only the evil, white, selfish, disease-ridden European exploiters who disrupted their harmonious existence.
Wonder how much this cost is tax $$$$. Another example of liberal junk science. Who cares if a bunch of Indians stared at the sky 1000 years ago? It doesn’t lower my tax bills today.
The astronomical significance of Stonehenge is somewhat dubious. I suspect that if one takes any set of landmarks and try to fit them to enough phenomena you'll get some chance coincidences.
Pyramids, for instance, are clearly aligned to the cardinal points of the compass, but a lot of the other archeological astronomical interpertations are somewhat dubious.
Astronomy ping. Thanks.
White or dark meat, Honey?
Vegetarians... Don’t forget that they were ALL vegetarians.
Very interesting. Thanks for the ping.
I guess I’m a racist. But when you consider that the Native American Indian did not have a written language, did not understand the concept of Zero, did not have a means to count past “many”, had no concept of what a wheel was, nor a lever and the height of their science was making fire - I find it hard to conceive that they were astrology experts. They did not have tool specialization, agriculture nor understand how to domesticate animals. They were nomads, because they had no concept of how agriculture works. Their dwellings were temporary, for a very good reason. They had to follow the herds - like any other predator.
Perhaps, in the most basic sense, they could mark where the sun came up, and move that rock further and further along a shelf until the sun hit the equinox - but that would be about as far as their LIMITED knowledge would extend.
If you don’t have radio or TV or books, you’re going to stare at the sky a lot.
One of Andereck’s students, Natalie Cunningham, was looking for a senior project in 2008 and agreed to help Krehbiel.
“I had to do a lot of math to go back into the past and see where the sun and moon were,” said Cunningham, who was studying English and astrophysics.
In the summer of 2008, Krehbiel took Cunningham to Utah to take readings.
This is about astronomy and archeology, that's it. Not all societies or cultures are equal.
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