yes, probably color-coded for mineral and energy
resources needed to recharge their rides. -- j
.

Well, you do have a point. Maybe they even had them all painted up in corporate colors at some point?

makes 'em easier to see from high altitudes, where
the ancient aliens cruised by in their starships
looking for a place to park. -- j
.

Yep, new things every day....

Good idea, can we suggest that to NASA?

Good points. Even the naysayers cannot provide alternative ideas, which really makes it debatable just how it was all done.

Dino, you do have to laugh at the guy, he is so funny, and he also can get pretty nasty with others of his type. He got really pissy with a guy who had some unique video on YT and the guy whacked him up pretty good.

Maybe. They have found a huge number of megaliths in Europe in the last 20-30 years, since satellites became common. Thats a lot of rock moving for people trying to survive. Maybe a government project like FDR did?

Indeed, one of the issues is how did the Aztecs and Maya get such precise calendars that can predict all manner of celestial things, yet they had no telescopes. Hmmm..

Well, I guess thats the question. Stonehenge and Easter Island come to mind in the real of "Whoo, how do you do that?" Also there is a huge structure under the Pacific by Okinawa, I think, that would have had to have been constructed at least 15K years ago, to account for all the water locked up in ice. They are still exploring that one .

That was one of the things I have always wondered about. Erik Von Daniken brought that up with Chariots, and Tiahuanaco as well, the work on the stones rivals anything we can do today, as well as having no evidence for using blunt instruments to chisel it. That is one thing that drives the whole debate.It is an interesting subject, and Tues night I saw a show where they basically did the political smear job on EVD , complete with a bevy of so called experts who poo-pooed him. I do not like to take a particular stand and say "thats it" but I am open to debate as no one has a good answer for all this stuff, on either side. It is just funny NASA is publicly asking, when they usually pontificate.

Men did it?

She cannot explain how so many huge and heavy structures were put into place especially in Central and South America, when we find it extremely difficult to move and alter them with modern equipment.

There are unexplained ancient structures all over the world besides Kazakhstan. By ancient, I'm talking about thousand of years old, well before humans had the tools or ability to create them, but somehow, they did. Or did they? In Central America there's Puma Punku whose 10 ton+ blocks are cut to such perfectly straight lines that modern equipment is hard pressed to emulate them. There are the famous Nasca Lines in Peru where lines and images of spiders and animals can only be viewed from the air to be understood. All over the Earth there are impossible structures made of stone so big and heavy that special machines made today, would need to be built to move them. There is simply no way that ancients could have built such items with what we know of their technology. Even the Pyramids are a mystery, and the Sphinx, which pre-dates the Pyramids is a conundrum. "There are more things on heaven and earth than are dream't of in your philosophy" said good old Willie Shakespeare.

Yes, this is becoming make widely known. Hunter gatherers had a lot of "down time". Perhaps the monuments are early representations of powerful producers. ;)

Gotta love that guy. Is watching that show a guilty pleasure? Absolutely. Enjoyable as hell? Same.

Excellent points, Mike. The Indo-European migration stretched from China to Ireland, taking its heroic culture, secondary animal products, and wheeled vehicles with it. Insofar as extra time is concerned, modern hunter-gatherer tribes (more primitive than the PIE civilization) spend about 20 hours a week gathering food: This would leave plenty of time to make monuments.

But - Why those monuments? What do they mean? Why was it important to make them, and make them BIG?


Jim

Since 0 has very little to do let us send him there with a sleeping bag and tent to figure it out, since he claims to know everything.

What's interesting is the math that needed to exist at that time in order to construct, assuming these were hunter-gatherers.

they were signaling to E.T. -- "visit here," "coca-cola,"
''have it your way" and the like; yes? -- j
.

Interesting

Hunters turned to Agro-economics, then when both overutilization of the land to the point it was totally stripped of nutrients, and climactic conditions rapidly changed for the worse, the crops started to fail... the "monoliths" were raised as appeals to their "deities", when things continued to degrade they turned to living sacrifices (animal, human), and then as even their sacrifices to their deities failed to being the desired results (revitalized land, rainfall, etc.) they turned to the last resort (cannibalism) until the population was no longer sustainable and the people died out. Common recurring theme throughout history.

That, or prehistoric humanity were all Burners (ref. Burning Man, Black Rock City, NV), and built these huge party grounds to make music, dance naked, practice art, and get wasted.

The circle of mounds is in a way fascinating as there are 25 mounds in a circle. Maybe there were external markers/structures (as in stone circles throughout northwest Europe) and it was used for marking planting times, seasonal predictors, etc. When you look at Stonehenge (for example) that structure is far larger and far more complex than the actual stone henge... and people are just now starting to decode it.

My thought was it's part of some sort of religious ritual or belief system that was perhaps as, say, someone traveling today that sees a church (or even a synagogue or mosque) would recognize it for what it is and what it's used for (and in a very basic way, how it is used)....

I can't wait for the Ancient Aliens dude with the haircut of credibility to find out about this.

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=a...

Actually, I've read that the hunter gatherer lifestyle results in a lot of free time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origina...

Mike, thanks for the feedback. The one major thing I have always wondered with megalithic structures is why, and how, would they spare the time and effort to build such huge things, when they should be out chasing animals, growing food etc. Also, if you look at some of them, the work done (such as at Tiahuanaco in western Bolivia) is of such superior quality, some of which we can barely do today on such a scale. There are also several other sites around the world where there is just such huge sites, and made of 500 ton rocks, that it is hard to imagine how they did this 4000 years ago.