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Ohio's Serpent Mound, an archaeological mystery, still the focus of scientific debate
The Plain Dealer ^ | October 11, 2018, Updated October 12, 2018 | Susan Glaser

Posted on 10/16/2018 12:04:05 AM PDT by SunkenCiv

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To: Grimmy
If you dug a pit at Stonehenge, burned your trash in the pit, and then recovered the hole without leaving any sign of the hole, sure. But you're not doing that, nor is it likely that you could pull it off. Past disturbances of the ground or stratified deposits are visible, as the filled-in ancient robber's hole leading to the door of Tut's tomb was visible to Howard Carter.

21 posted on 10/16/2018 4:31:55 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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To: SunkenCiv

The dragon is depicted as a celestial phenomenon, with flames and much noise and appears in many depictions to have set fire to a nearby planet. In some depictions, the 'dragon' holds a sphere in it's mouth, just as Serpent Mound does. I see them both, the Chinese Dragon and the Serpent Mound as a depiction of the same celestial event.

22 posted on 10/16/2018 4:50:16 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (Fair Dinkum!)
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To: Fred Nerks
Thanks, nice catch.

23 posted on 10/16/2018 4:53:31 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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To: SunkenCiv
Quetzelcoatl

The Australian aboriginal peoples appear to have their counterpart in the Rainbow Serpent which created the mountains and the rivers...


24 posted on 10/16/2018 5:19:53 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (Fair Dinkum!)
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To: SunkenCiv

But I could eat a picnic lunch and leave the bones. Someone comes by 2000 years later, digs up the bones and says “proof! it’s 2000 years old!”.

It’s unlikely that archaeologists can sort Johnny Come Later squatters with the actual makers in many circumstances.


25 posted on 10/16/2018 5:47:29 PM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: SunkenCiv

Looks like the 18th fairway.....


26 posted on 10/16/2018 8:50:23 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: minnesota_bound

Par 4, at least. :%)


27 posted on 10/17/2018 12:17:00 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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To: Grimmy

The bones still wouldn’t be at the foundation of the mound.


28 posted on 10/17/2018 12:17:43 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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To: Fred Nerks

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/16614/production/_103886619_hi049777653.jpg

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45874858


29 posted on 10/17/2018 12:46:59 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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To: JustaTech

Yeah, it’s kinda big, and a wheelbarrow requires the wheel, very little evidence for that invention in Precolumbian America.


30 posted on 10/17/2018 1:27:52 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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To: SunkenCiv
... Mauro’s map, the sixteenth-century Carta Marina produced by Olaus Magnus is a landmark in cartographical accuracy, and yet nevertheless its seas are populated by monsters

The latest excavations at Pompeii are uncovering 2,000-year-old works of art


31 posted on 10/17/2018 5:08:58 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (Fair Dinkum!)
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To: SunkenCiv
I've solved the mystery!!


32 posted on 12/24/2018 5:30:02 AM PST by Trump_the_Evil_Left (FReeper formerly known as Enchante (registered Sept. 5, 2001), back from the wild....)
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To: Trump_the_Evil_Left
Laz would hit it.

33 posted on 12/24/2018 5:22:43 PM PST by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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