Re: Archaeological treasures a click away on Google Earth

[Joel Weishaus]

Maybe you can plow around the universities and get some support?   This reminds me of one of my favorite stories:   "About 1966 or so, a NASA team doing work for the Apollo moon mission took the astronauts near Tuba City where the terrain of the Navajo Reservation looks very much like the Lunar surface. With all the trucks and large vehicles were two large figures that were dressed in full Lunar spacesuits. "Near by, a Navajo sheep herder and his son were watching the strange creatures walk about occasionally being tended by personnel. The two Navajo people were noticed and approached by the NASA personnel. Since the man did not know English, his son asked for him what the strange creatures were and the NASA people told them that they are just men that are getting ready to go to the moon. The man became very excited and asked if he could send a message to the moon with the astronauts. "The NASA personnel thought this was a great idea so they rustled up a tape recorder. After the man gave them his message they asked his son to translate. His son would not. "Later, they tried a few more people on the reservation to translate and every person they asked would chuckle and then refuse to translate. Finally, with cash in hand someone translated the message: 'Watch out for these guys, they come to take your land.'" -Charles Philip Whitedog, NASA Mission Control Manager.   -Joel   ----- Original Message ----- From: mIEKAL aND To: WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.WVU.EDU Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 5:41 PM Subject: Re: Archaeological treasures a click away on Google Earth One of the problems to getting this located is that the "official" state archeologists insist that such a thing never existed.  I learned of this from a Ho-chunk scout that lived in this area, & worked for the Ho-chunk nation mapping caves & cave paintings who said  such a place is mentioned in their oral tradition.  & he was suggesting that it was a pyramid which was the the central plaza of a city of sorts, like a small-scale Cahokia. ~mIEKAL On Oct 18, 2006, at 1:27 PM, Joel Weishaus wrote: It can probably be located from space with infra-red. Can you put in a  request with NASA? -Joel. ----- Original Message -----  From: "mIEKAL aND" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.WVU.EDU> Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 9:12 AM Subject: Re: Archaeological treasures a click away on Google Earth There's rumored to be a 10th century step pyramid built by the Mississippi mound culture about 25 miles from here which I've never been able to locate.  This could be the ticket if I knew what I was looking for..  somewhere around here: http://maps.google.com/? ie=UTF8&z=14&ll=43.469491,-90.705872&spn=0.048462,0.080166&t=h&om= On Oct 18, 2006, at 10:45 AM, Brent Bechtel wrote: For entertainment, I sometimes surf conspiracy / amateur-science websites. Apart from the usefulness of mapping archaeological finds with Google Earth, many persons have presented claims of dubious structures, secret installations, overlapping to mounds, and so on. I wonder how the two approaches might intersect and validate claims of amateur researchers ... -Brent mIEKAL aND wrote: Archaeological treasures a click away on Google Earth http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/news/15763952.htm After 25 years of gritty field work, UNC Chapel Hill archaeologist Scott Madry has dug up a new way to hunt for ancient ruins -- without leaving home. Last year, Madry read how an Italian man accidentally discovered the outline of an ancient Roman villa while looking at his house on Google Earth. Madry explores how a Celtic people called the Aedui lived in France for about three centuries starting about 300 B.C. Madry got out his laptop, fired up Google Earth and looked over lands in Burgundy, near his research area. Immediately, he spotted features that, to his trained eye, resembled outlines of Iron Age, Bronze Age, ancient Roman and medieval residences, forts, roads and monuments. 24/7 PROTOMEDIA BREEDING GROUND JOGLARS CROSSMEDIA BROADCAST (collaborative text & media) http://www.joglars.org SPIDERTANGLE International Network of VisPoets http://www.spidertangle.net XEXOXIAL EDITIONS Appropriate Scale Publishing since 1980 http://www.xexoxial.org INTERNALATIONAL DICTIONARY OF NEOLOGISMS research | reference | ongoing collection http://www.neologisms.us Dreamtime Village Hypermedia Permaculture EcoVillage in Southwest Wisconsin http://www.dreamtimevillage.org "The word is the first stereotype."  Isidore Isou, 1947.