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Related: About this forumMysterious Symbols in Kazakhstan: How Old Are They, Really? by Owen Jarus
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Good to see a great science writer following up on this new flurry of stories.
Mysterious Symbols in Kazakhstan: How Old Are They, Really?
by Owen Jarus, Live Science Contributor | November 05, 2015 09:22am ET
Sprawling earthen swastika designs, crosses and rings that cover part of Kazakhstan are becoming a little less mysterious: Archaeologists have found and investigated 60 of these symbols, called geoglyphs, and determined when they were created and what their potential function might have been.
The Kazakhstan geoglyphs, described at an archaeology conference in Istanbul and reported by Live Science last year, range in size from 90 to 400 meters (295 to 1,312 feet) across longer than a commercial aircraft.
The earthen works take on various geometric shapes, including squares, crosses, rings and a swastika. In ancient times, the swastika was a common design with no political undertones. Though the swastika was created from timber, most of the geoglyphs were shaped from earth. [See Google Earth Images of the Sprawling Kazakhstan Geoglyphs]
Using a dating technique called optically stimulated luminescence (OSL), the archaeologists recently found that the structures were constructed starting around 2,800 years ago.
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The Kazakhstan geoglyphs, described at an archaeology conference in Istanbul and reported by Live Science last year, range in size from 90 to 400 meters (295 to 1,312 feet) across longer than a commercial aircraft.
The earthen works take on various geometric shapes, including squares, crosses, rings and a swastika. In ancient times, the swastika was a common design with no political undertones. Though the swastika was created from timber, most of the geoglyphs were shaped from earth. [See Google Earth Images of the Sprawling Kazakhstan Geoglyphs]
Using a dating technique called optically stimulated luminescence (OSL), the archaeologists recently found that the structures were constructed starting around 2,800 years ago.
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Mysterious Symbols in Kazakhstan: How Old Are They, Really? by Owen Jarus (Original Post)
L. Coyote
Nov 2015
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Agnosticsherbet
(11,619 posts)1. Your link does not go to the story. Correct livescience link below.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)2. Fixed. Thanks.
I needed my second coffee, I guess.
packman
(16,296 posts)3. Hey, Karl let's go out and screw around with the future
Damn, primitive Kazakhstans sitting round nothing to do and decide to go out and fuck around with people to come. Fun guys.
Nice site - interesting
Lucky Luciano
(11,254 posts)4. Cool link. I love stuff like that.
I love traveling to all the world's ancient mysterious structures.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)5. New placemarks file here, about 4,000 sites
jqjacobs.net/archaeo/sites/
Lucky Luciano
(11,254 posts)7. Nice!
usaf-vet
(6,181 posts)6. No need for all the speculation and research......
..... just as Dr Ben Carson he will tell you which biblical figure is responsible for structures and for what reason Jesus signed off on the design.
Judi Lynn
(160,527 posts)8. Amazing images. So much to see. Great reading ahead. Thank you, so much. n/t