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Archaeologist Says Rockart Found at Local Paleoindian Site

Seeded on Mon Feb 13, 2012 10:34 PM EST
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Lead archeologist Jack Hranicky described the early people who roamed the area approximatley 12,000 years ago as Virginia ''First Engineers''...

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The site discovered was ''above ground'' seemingly undisturbed for thousands of years.

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Reply#1 - Mon Feb 13, 2012 10:35 PM EST
Pat from Montana

That was an incredible read. What a find. and yes to be undisturbed is amazing.....

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Reply#2 - Mon Feb 13, 2012 10:46 PM EST
Kavika

Thanks for visiting Pat...The above ground and being undistrubed was amazing.

Waanakiwin niijii

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#2.1 - Mon Feb 13, 2012 11:46 PM EST
Pat from Montana

Not to mention the stick that man was holding to point with, did you see the woodwork on that ....it was stunning.

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#2.2 - Tue Feb 14, 2012 12:00 AM EST
Kavika

I didn't pick up on it the first time and then went back and looked, amazing..

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#2.3 - Tue Feb 14, 2012 12:11 AM EST
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Darrah, Greenville, SC

How exciting! 12,000 yr. old art is kind of hard to fathom. It's always amazing how brilliant and artistic the ancients were too.

This is another site around the Southeast that I'd love to visit and see for myself.

Thanks, Kavika!

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Reply#3 - Mon Feb 13, 2012 11:43 PM EST
Kavika

Thanks for visiting Darrah...This would be a site well worth visiting. The artwork was amazing.

Waanakiwin niijii

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#3.1 - Mon Feb 13, 2012 11:48 PM EST
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Grisham

Fascinating. Did you see the seed about walled towns made out of shells that were found in North America that were as old as the Egyptian ruins?

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Reply#4 - Mon Feb 13, 2012 11:46 PM EST
Kavika

Thanks for stopping by Grisham..What I thought was truly amazing is the ''above ground'' and the condition that it was still in.

Yes, I saw that article, really interesting stuff. There was another one about six months ago where they discovered Pyramid type ruins in Georgia, dating back 2500 years. Each of these discoveries are changing history in a very big way. Perhaps someday the ''brains'' will finally decide that we were not a bunch of wandering hunter gatherers...LOL...

P.S. go to KK there is an article dedicated to you.

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#4.1 - Mon Feb 13, 2012 11:52 PM EST
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cried

Cool, it seemed to me that they might have been highlighted for better viewing. They appeared to me to be all under overhangs of some sort, which may be why they survived as well as they did.

Liked the seed.

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Reply#5 - Tue Feb 14, 2012 12:44 AM EST
Kavika

cried, thanks for visiting. Seems like they were protected by old growth forest. Probably helped protect the site.

Happy that you enjoyed the seed.

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#5.1 - Tue Feb 14, 2012 1:09 AM EST
A radicial idea

The images as my wife described them seems to remind me of a petraglyph site I visited in Three Rivers New Mexico if I remember there are over 21,000 petraglyph at the site. All above ground and were left by the archaic tribe of the Mogollon Indians. They were created around 900 AD and are one of the most impressive sites around.

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#5.2 - Tue Feb 14, 2012 4:28 AM EST
Kavika

Thanks for stopping by radicial idea. We have some site in the west that are amazing. We have one close to us that really amazing, not large but in excellent condition.

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#5.3 - Tue Feb 14, 2012 9:16 AM EST
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Enoch-2699399

The graffiti art at Jay's Diner restrooms was first carved the last time they cleaned the coffee pots there.

Enoch, the art critic.

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Reply#6 - Tue Feb 14, 2012 10:06 AM EST
Kavika

Niijii, the coffee at Jay's predates the rock art...LOL

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#6.1 - Tue Feb 14, 2012 10:19 AM EST
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Par4TheCourse

Thanks Kavika .. that is very interesting stuff..

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Reply#7 - Tue Feb 14, 2012 10:13 AM EST
Kavika

Thanks for stopping by Par...Being above ground made it even more interesting.

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#7.1 - Tue Feb 14, 2012 10:20 AM EST
Par4TheCourse

Yes.. There was another one .. or was there.. something similar a few months back that they also found above ground..

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#7.2 - Tue Feb 14, 2012 10:34 AM EST
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screminmimi

Very interesting article, Kavika. I don't believe that engineering is one of the talents ever considered to be in the Native American resume. But we are not named the "First People" for nothing.

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Reply#8 - Tue Feb 14, 2012 10:56 AM EST
Kavika

Thanks for stopping by screminmimi....''But we are not named the First People for nothing.'' Great line mimi.

Waanakiwin niijii

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#8.1 - Tue Feb 14, 2012 11:01 AM EST
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Al-316

If I had more than one life to live, in one of them I would be an archaeologist. Finding and learning about these pieces of history would be fantastic.

About those hand prints. They might be mine. I used to live a short distance from Spouts Run and I like to touch things. lol

Good seed, gete niijii.

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Reply#9 - Sat Feb 18, 2012 4:15 PM EST
Kavika

thanks for visiting niijii..If they found your hand prints it would be in ''silly putty''...LOL

Waanakiwin gete niijii

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#9.1 - Sat Feb 18, 2012 4:20 PM EST
Al-316

You are quick. ROTFL

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#9.2 - Sun Feb 19, 2012 12:31 AM EST
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