WORLD'S LARGEST EARTHWORKS ASTRONOMICAL ALIGNMENT MYSTERY PI
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This Hopewell pictograph is the largest earthworks complex in the world. Although places such as the Nazca lines of Peru are better known, the earthworks in the Eastern United states were much more difficult to build because the tress and vegetation had to be removed and the earth flattened. The Hopewell Indians built these pictographs about 2000 years ago.
Like the Nazca lines these earthworks stretch across the land like a giant map or drawing left by ancient astronauts; however, because the area was reforested, they were difficult to initially find.
The Newark Earthworks is a National Historic Landmark. Chris Scarre of the McDonald Institute of Archaeological Research and editor of the Cambridge Archaeological Journal lists the site in "Seventy Wonders of the Ancient World". It has also been called one of the 70 wonders of the ancient world, by an international team of scholars.
The Octagon Earthworks include an eight-sided structure enclosing about 20 ha. It is connected to a large circular enclosure by a short group of parallel walls. The research by Hively and Horn indicate that the Hopewell builders incorporated several lunar alignments into its architecture, track an18.6 years cycle. These alignments are not explained by statistical anomalies. (Hively, Ray and Robert Horn, 2006, "A Statistical Study of Lunar Alignments a the Newark Earthworks," Mid-continent Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 31, No. 2, PP 281-322.) The Great Circle Earthworks is a circle enclosing about 8 ha and the Wright Earthworks preserves a small portion of the walls of a large, square earthwork.
In comparison, the Great Pyramid of Cheops would have fit in the Wright Earthworks, four structures the size of Rome's Coliseum would fit in the Octagon, and the Stonehenge would fit into one of the small circles adjacent to the Octagon. In addition to the geometric forms and probable use of a standard unit of measure, there are other mathematical consistencies in the spacing of the earthworks.
Being in the earthworks is awesome and produces spiritual feelings. The works are mysterious: no one knows why they were made or what they represent. The earthworks are being replaced by a golf course.
At the end of the video is the "Alligator Mound," an effigy.
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