Ancient Stonehenge-like structure found in Lake Michigan (1 Viewer)

[woohoosaint]

The structure predates Stonehenge by approximately 4,000 years.
The article is from October 2024.
I just stumbled across it on the interwebz.

A 9,000 year-old Stonehenge under Lake Michigan baffles scientists: "It has no explanation"

Explore the mystery of a 9,000-year-old stone structure under Lake Michigan that scientists liken to Stonehenge, challenging our understanding of prehistoric North America.

www.ecoticias.com

 

[soupcan dan]

Is "under a lake" beneath the lake bed and quite dry or just under the surface of the lake and quite moist?

asking for a friend of robert ballard

 

[woohoosaint]

Is "under a lake" beneath the lake bed and quite dry or just under the surface of the lake and quite moist?

asking for a friend of robert ballard

Changed the title

 

[Saintman2884]

The structure predates Stonehenge by approximately 4,000 years.
The article is from October 2024.
I just stumbled across it on the interwebz.

A 9,000 year-old Stonehenge under Lake Michigan baffles scientists: "It has no explanation"

Explore the mystery of a 9,000-year-old stone structure under Lake Michigan that scientists liken to Stonehenge, challenging our understanding of prehistoric North America.

www.ecoticias.com

Is it more like Gobleki Tepi, a Neolithic Stone Age religious-like structure found by German archeologists in the late 20th century that carbon-dating analysis discovered was about 3-4,000 years older then Stonehenge in eastern Turkey (then called Asia Minor). Goblecki Tepe has been theorized to have been a late Neolithic religious site, communal meeting place or “proto-city” all in one. If late Neolithic agrarian farmers could somehow construct a crude, evolving religious Stonehenge-like structure in eastern Turkey, why couldn’t they do something similar here in Neolithic North America.


After the last Ice Age ended about 10,000 years ago, slowly but gradually many former hunter-gatherer societies began adapting to a more sedentary, small-scaled agrarian based communities which eventually led to the first “proto-cities”—sort of a small-or-medium sized meeting places where early agrarian farmers and remaining hunter-gatherers would meet up and have meetings, trade, or engage in religious ceremonies, usually totemism styled religions or nature-based religions or cults. “Proto-cities” were the first attempt at making actual cities that would be finally be realized or achieved in the very long and drawn-out Bronze Ages where large, metropolitan cities like Babylon, Ur, Ninevah and even Salem (ancient Jebusite-controlled Jerusalem) were sort of new concepts.


One of this planet’s oldest cities, Jericho, IMHO, likely began as something resembling a “proto-city”.

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

Spinal Tap tour?

 

[Grumpy Old Manatee]

Let the bizarre gardening accidents commence.

 

[woohoosaint]

Spinal Tap tour?

I see what ya did there lol

When I first read the article I thought that the structure found in Lake Michigan looked much smaller than Stonehenge.

 

[Brennan77]

Spinal Tap tour?

No one knows who they were or what they were doing.

 

[woohoosaint]

Is it more like Gobleki Tepi, a Neolithic Stone Age religious-like structure found by German archeologists in the late 20th century that carbon-dating analysis discovered was about 3-4,000 years older then Stonehenge in eastern Turkey (then called Asia Minor). Goblecki Tepe has been theorized to have been a late Neolithic religious site, communal meeting place or “proto-city” all in one. If late Neolithic agrarian farmers could somehow construct a crude, evolving religious Stonehenge-like structure in eastern Turkey, why couldn’t they do something similar here in Neolithic North America.


After the last Ice Age ended about 10,000 years ago, slowly but gradually many former hunter-gatherer societies began adapting to a more sedentary, small-scaled agrarian based communities which eventually led to the first “proto-cities”—sort of a small-or-medium sized meeting places where early agrarian farmers and remaining hunter-gatherers would meet up and have meetings, trade, or engage in religious ceremonies, usually totemism styled religions or nature-based religions or cults. “Proto-cities” were the first attempt at making actual cities that would be finally be realized or achieved in the very long and drawn-out Bronze Ages where large, metropolitan cities like Babylon, Ur, Ninevah and even Salem (ancient Jebusite-controlled Jerusalem) were sort of new concepts.


One of this planet’s oldest cities, Jericho, IMHO, likely began as something resembling a “proto-city”.

Here's something that you may find interesting.
Not very many south Louisiana people know this, but one of the oldest Native American communal sites is Poverty Point in north Louisiana.
The site is estimated to be around 3,400 years old.

Welcome to Poverty Point World Heritage Site

Poverty Point World Heritage Site is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, it is a story 3,400 years in the making. Embark with us on a journey to this ancient city.

www.povertypoint.us

 

[Rysilk]

Do you ever wonder if every once in a while these things we find are just circumstance? Like maybe 10,000 years ago Hugo and Bam-Bam were bored and just started putting rocks down for the hell of it? Then blam, we come along and scientists try to state a reason for it all?


Kind of like if a meteor hit us in 10 years, wiping out the human race, then 100,000 years later aliens land on Earth and do archeological digs and the human skulls they find just happened to be from a convention of people with down syndrome, so on the alien world in their museums they teach what humans used to look like....

Been a slow day at work today.

 

[Madmarsha]

Spinal Tap tour?

You don't do heavy metal in Doubly.

 

[Merl]

Here's something that you may find interesting.
Not very many south Louisiana people know this, but one of the oldest Native American communal sites is Poverty Point in north Louisiana.
The site is estimated to be around 3,400 years old.

Welcome to Poverty Point World Heritage Site

Poverty Point World Heritage Site is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, it is a story 3,400 years in the making. Embark with us on a journey to this ancient city.

www.povertypoint.us

Been there quite a few times. It is believed to be a meeting sight for the tribes in the area. The copper artifacts found are from copper mined in Minnesota confirming that there was a trade route following the Mississippi river at the time.

 

[SystemShock]

Do you ever wonder if every once in a while these things we find are just circumstance? Like maybe 10,000 years ago Hugo and Bam-Bam were bored and just started putting rocks down for the hell of it? Then blam, we come along and scientists try to state a reason for it all?


Kind of like if a meteor hit us in 10 years, wiping out the human race, then 100,000 years later aliens land on Earth and do archeological digs and the human skulls they find just happened to be from a convention of people with down syndrome, so on the alien world in their museums they teach what humans used to look like....

Been a slow day at work today.

I don't ever wonder that at all. There are certain anthropological patterns that can be traced all the way back to the Neanderthals.

 

[Yatman]

are we really gonna make me say it?