Civilization (from the Latin civis=citizen and civitas=city) is a term applied to any society which has developed a writing system, government, production of surplus food, division of labor, and urbanization.
#History #Sumer #PovertyPoint #OlmecCivilization #Moundville #MinoanCivilization #MayaCivilization #IncaCivilization #GreatZimbabwe #GöbekliTepe #Egypt #Civilization #City #China #Cahokia #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-10175-en/
What Defines a Civilization?
Civilization (from the Latin civis=citizen and civitas=city) is a term applied to any society which has developed a writing system, government, production of surplus food, division of labor, and urbanization...
Archaeologists Uncover a New Purpose Behind One of North America’s Greatest Mysteries
New evidence suggests Poverty Point’s monumental mounds were created not by a ruling elite, but by egalitarian groups drawn together by shared ritual purpose. Some 3,500 years ago, hunter-gatherer groups began shaping enormous earthen mounds along the Mississippi River at Poverty Point, a UNESCO
New research suggests Poverty Point’s massive mounds were not royal monuments but sacred gatherings—acts of ritual cooperation to restore balance in a chaotic world.
#Archaeology #Anthropology #PovertyPoint #IndigenousHistory https://www.anthropology.net/p/the-mounds-that-mended-the-sky-rethinking
The Mounds That Mended the Sky: Rethinking the Meaning of Poverty Point
New archaeological research suggests that North America’s earliest monumental builders were not subjects of kings or chiefs, but pilgrims who moved mountains of earth to repair a broken world.
@inti I call this Pueblo Colorado Circle. Are
#geoglyph or
#intaglio better?
Another
#GreatCircle on
#PachaMama. Outlines in my graphic are relative sizes.
#Stonehenge fits inside the tiny circle beside
#NewarkOctagon.
Octagon Earthworks -
http://www.jqjacobs.net/archaeo/octagon.htmlResults are center-on-center ratios, margins of error less than 4m.
#PovertyPoint #KML,
#GoogleEarth file:
http://jqjacobs.net/kml/poverty_point.kml#archaeology #geodesy #mathematics #earthworks #NewMexico #Ohio #Bolivia Newark Octagon Earthworks, a Photo Gallery
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