Amazing what you can do with a 6 foot stick and some string. And a lot of slaves, willing or otherwise.
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 10:46 PM, Eric Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have recently made some trips out to some of the Indian mounds in Indiana > and Ohio and was just awestruck at the scope of these complexes and mounds. > I studied this stuff (I was 3 years into a degree in Anthropology) in school > for 3 years before switching to computer science and that was nothing to > seeing these things in person. Keeping in mind that they only had wood and > stone tools (no metallurgical technology) and no horses, they build some > really complex structures with pretty simple tools. The Seip Mound near > Chillicothe, OH is about 50-60 ft tall. One of the more famous Hopewell > artifacts, a clawed hand made from mica (that came from West Virginia) was > excavated out of this mound. It is just amazing what people can do even > with very primitive technologies. In Anderson, IN at Mounds State Park, > they have a mound complex from the Adena culture (slight older and > concurrent with the Hopewell) that accurately measures the solstices and > equinoxes as well as the rise of a star (I forget the name offhand). For > primitives, they were pretty advanced. Fort Ancient in Oregonia, OH is an > 18,000 square foot complex with 3 1/2 miles of earthen wall surrounding > it...some of which is still 20 ft tall. These mounds were something like > 10-20 thousand years old, so I can just image what they looked like when > they were being maintained. That would have been a truly impressive sight. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Larry C. Lyons [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 10:09 PM > To: cf-community > Subject: Re: 5000 year old wooden door found buried in Zurich > > > Sorry about that, I didn't see the original reference. > > That said, neolithic people of that time period have been well > studied. Also look a the equivalent of those groups now. Primitive > does not mean simple, or stupid. Only the level of technology is > different. That said, given the way it was put together, its no wonder > they were among the first metal users in Europe. You'd need good tools > to work wood that way. Either that or they didn't mind waiting a > couple of weeks for a really nicely worked door. > > On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 10:03 PM, Larry C. Lyons <[email protected]> > wrote: >> On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Vivec <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> I wonder what happened? >> >> Someone shut it? >> >> A link would help. >> >>> >>> It seems that there were amazing architectural and engineering >>> abilities available from ancient times. >>> >>> How did we lose it? >>> >>> Is it because of the Dark Ages and the rise of Christianity, book >>> burning, hoarding of information by the church etc.? >>> >>> How did we lose so much knowledge? >>> >>> Why didn't something like the plans and methods for making this door >>> survive down through the ages (I'm sure it wasn't unique) ? >>> >>> > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:329728 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
