Posted on 09/17/2011 3:24:59 PM PDT by NYer
That's exactly what they are. Many similar structures have been studied in the Arabian Peninsula.
The peoples are bedouin, nomadic herders that gather from all over annually to buy and sell herd stock of sheep and goats and horses and camels.
These structures are paddocks to keep the various tribal groups' livestock apart. They are also sorting pens to separate by size and gender.
Clusters of these structures were abandoned over the millenia as rainfall patterns and herd migrations changed.
Jesus said if there were no people praising him, the very stones would cry out.
Are the stones crying out because we are not praising Him?
LOL, Good one!
The large bird and associated smaller raven don't appear in any of the mazes they've done ~ and are located several fields over from the main farm.
No doubt they could have gone out and practiced cutting corn ~ or, someone else could have been doing stuff earlier, or, as I believe, earlier people living on this gently rolling landscape realized they could work in a figure simply by picking up the dark pieces of gravel and casting them aside. A modern maze maker might well be inspired to do the same thing with corn today that an ancient maze maker might have thought of doing a couple of thousand years ago.
I checked out the lay of the land looking at Google Earth ~ amazingly somebody drove through every country road around there and took ground level shots of just hills.
The best "relief" shows in the few frames where there's been a light snow.
We are going to drive out there and check this out to see just how extensive the farmer's work has been.
BTW, the scratches and scrapes he's left in his main fields with the maze do attract your attention.
The photographs of the mazes on the website are inverted; N is at the bottom, puting the barns etc in the correct relationship. The mazes cover 5 or more acres each, or (if square...but they’re not) about 450’ X 450’; they don’t use the entirely same area each year
OTOH I’m not going to argue vigorously either way 1,500 miles away from a site I’ve never been to.
Please post your on the ground findings after your visit; I know I am interested in what you learn.
Maybe take a couple of printed out screen shots of the Google Earth views, and ask, if possible, how they align with the maze builder’s earlier work.
I once read something about people who traveled staying with other travelers along roads in areas surrounded by stones as make shift "motels" to keep safe from thieves and other threats.
That being said it wouldn't explain the design quality. The two on the left seem to be progressions of the same design, the circle in one seems to be the same only moved somewhat in the second one. I sometime wonder if these things do not have to do with genetics or cells. Or maybe they have to do with making and/or storing energy or even flight.
Reminds me of the beginning of a new life at the cellular level.
Five years later, Owen Jarus again:
93-Mile-Long Ancient Wall in Jordan Puzzles Archaeologists
http://www.livescience.com/53762-ancient-wall-in-jordan-puzzles-archaeologists.html
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