Newark Earthworks replicate the phases of the moon
Posted On: Nov 23rd, 2015 at 17:56
United States.
Staying with the United States, the Newark Mounds have always fascinated me, but this new finding is absolutely astonishing.
The mounds – known as the Newark Earthworks since the site doesn’t solely consist of mounds – are the largest earthworks on the face of the planet, covering an area four-and-a-half square miles.
The engineering required to build such a site is astronomical, which is ironic because it’s just been discovered that the mounds were built to record the phases of the moon.
And there again disappears everyone’s stereotypical image of North American Indians. You don’t just build a mound and then another and say, “Hey, this is the moon moving through the sky.” It requires complex mathematical equations, engineering on a massive scale, and when you start to think about it you wonder how on earth they did. Excuse the pun.
All over the world we see advanced technology that was put in place thousands of years into the past. The Newark Earthworks have been dated to between 1 – 400 AD but, as is often the case in archaeology with stone structures, dates are determined by organic material that is found on the site, rather than the site itself, although in this instance the dates are probably accurate as the mounds themselves are made of organic material.
If you think an undertaking like this is simple, then go to out into the countryside, find an area the same size, and then figure out how to make massive mounds with basic tools, and accurately measure them so that they form a perfect replication of the phases of the moon. No, I thought not…
And, of course, modern man has only just discovered what these mounds were made for, even with a couple of hundred years of advanced technology to boot.
I strongly suggest you get online and check out the Newark Earthworks, look at some photos, and then sit there scratching your head for a while…
