What's your favorite archaeology finds?

[Oreka Bailoak]

What's your favorite archaeology finds?

My 5 favorite finds are...

5) Pre-Columbus European connections to America
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norse_colonization_of_the_Americas

4) The Tocharians - Indo-Europeans of the East
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3) Very old Caucasoids in the Americas - Windover Bog People & Kennewick Man
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https://gustavus.edu/events/nobelconference/2008/stanford-lecture.php

1) Göbekli Tepe
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^They're all intresting.

The Nazca lines. Ancient "air fields" and/or man made markings/carvings on the ground (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FZUYNPQWHY&feature=related)which are only visible from high up in the air. Why?

[Magister Eckhart]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d4/Sutton_hoo_helmet_room_1_no_flashbrightness_ajuste d.JPG

Definitely my favourite. The discovery of Sutton Hoo opened up a tremendous door for knowledge of Germanic funerary rites.

[Oreka Bailoak]

8,000 B.C. Japanese Temple - sunk long time ago - complete with walk paths, statues and a gigantic face - Yonaguni
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Some say it's only 3,000 years old. I don't know who to believe- wish I could read the documentation myself.

[Loddfafner]

My only archeological finds have been an Indian pictograph, some pottery shards, and flint scrapings from a site where arrowheads were manufactured.

[Logan]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d4/Sutton_hoo_helmet_room_1_no_flashbrightness_ajuste d.JPG

Definitely my favourite. The discovery of Sutton Hoo opened up a tremendous door for knowledge of Germanic funerary rites.
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[Star Valley]

The Ancient Chinese Mummy (http://www.theapricity.com/forum/showpost.php?p=563169&postcount=689), it is more shocking and significant than my favorite archaeological finds.
Lady Dai was a noble woman from the Western Han Dynasty which ruled 2,100 years ago; is now housed in the state-of-the-art Hunan Museum in Changsha, Hunan province in the Central of China.
The corpse is so well preserved that can be autopsied by pathologists and the cadaver is look like recently deceased human being.

[BanjaLuka]

Aside the well known and famous archeology finds:

Gobekli Tepe - I find it really fascinating and there are so many reasons for it but most important is that some 8000-12000 years ago people were not just hunter-gatherers but farmers as well, a fact that changes a scientific paradigm...

Then there is Pumapunku and mistery how the hell did they build it and carve those stones :eek:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumapunku

http://daveearley.hubpages.com/hub/Ancient-Mysteries-Puma-Punku-in-Tiahuanaco

Interesting stone from Pumapunku :eek:
http://johndenugent.org/images/swastika-puma-punku.jpg

They weren't Buddhists thats for sure :rolleyes2:


The stones in Puma Punku are made up of granite, and diorite, and the only stone that is harder that those two, is the diamond. If the people who built this place cut these stones using stone cutting techniques, then they would had to have used diamond tools.

If they didn't use diamonds to cut these stones, then what did they use?

Not only were these stones really hard to cut, but they are also extremely heavy. One of these stone ruins weighs in at about 800 tons! These are big stones, and they are really heavy. The nearest quarry is at least 10 miles away from the site of the ruins. How in the world did these people move these blocks that weighed many tons, and how were they able to form a structure with them?

[Magister Eckhart]

Aside the well known and famous archeology finds:

Gobekli Tepe - I find it really fascinating and there are so many reasons for it but most important is that some 8000-12000 years ago people were not just hunter-gatherers but farmers as well, a fact that changes a scientific paradigm...

Then there is Pumapunku and mistery how the hell did they build it and carve those stones :eek:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumapunku

http://daveearley.hubpages.com/hub/Ancient-Mysteries-Puma-Punku-in-Tiahuanaco

Definitely interesting, but I think the ancients probably knew more than we give them credit for. After all, we are arrogant enough to think we represent the highest point to which man has ever climbed; I think that in fairness to past civilizations, perhaps we ought to lay down our pride and admit that it is perfectly possible for a civilization, no matter how old, to produce massive constructions similar to our own during the height of its own civilization and well into the twilight of its life, as we have. There's no mystery in Puma Puncu for me; they clearly had some means to do what they did that has been lost to us, but it was certainly theirs and certainly known to them: it could have been anything, from heat to actual diamond tools (the Crystal Skulls exist, why not diamond tools)?


Interesting stone from Pumapunku :eek:
http://johndenugent.org/images/swastika-puma-punku.jpg

They weren't Buddhists thats for sure :rolleyes2:

The only source for that image I can find is John de Nugent, a known neo-Nazi crank. That swastika is a Greek design, and clearly not one of the two primary kinds of stone at the Puma Puncu site. In short, it's not from Puma Puncu, but from somewhere else, probably a site in Greece, being passed off as Puma Puncu to serve crank Neo-Nazi ends.