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Submitted by Ogneslav on Friday, 13 November 2015  Page Views: 4296

Multi-periodSite Name: Zyuratkul Elk Alternative Name: Лось Зюраткуля
Country: Russia Type: Hill Figure or Geoglyph
Nearest Town: Zlatoust  Nearest Village: Zyuratkul
Latitude: 54.942500N  Longitude: 59.192222E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
4 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
4 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
2 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
4

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Zyuratkul Elk submitted by AlexAssa : Site in Russia (Vote or comment on this photo)
Geoglyph in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia. The figure was found in 2011 through the examination of satellite images of the region. The figure located on the south slope of Zyuratkul ridge depicts an elk, and measures approximately 218 by 195 m. It was made with lines 2 to 4 metres wide so that it could be seen from the ridge.

Preliminary excavations performed in 2011 revealed that lines of the figure was reveted with stones on a layer of clay.

More than 120 stone tools were found during further excavations of 2012 and 2013. The geoglyph is dated to 3800-3500 BC and for now is the only object of this kind discovered in Russia.

The hill figure is only visible in late spring or early autumn.

Note: Dig shows that the entire community, including children built this geoglyph in Russia. See the comments on our page for more.
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Zyuratkul Elk submitted by AlexAssa : Site in Russia (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Zyuratkul Elk Video by AlexAssa on Wednesday, 11 November 2015
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Exclusive video! Zyuratkul geoglyph
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Entire Community including Children built geoglyph some 6,000 years ago by bat400 on Sunday, 08 February 2015
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Remarkable new details about giant moose released as archaeologists confirm stone structure is world's oldest.
The moose was discovered by chance by local researcher Alexander Shestakov.
Perhaps the most interesting development is that tools found at the site indicate it was worked on assiduously by children as well as adults in a large-scale community accomplishment. Of 155 tools found beside the geoglyph, the majority were used for digging or breaking stones.

Stanislav Grigoryev, a senior researcher from the Chelyabinsk History and Archaeology Institute, said: 'Judging by the different sizes of the tools - from 17cm-long and weighing about three kilograms to some being just two centimetres - we can assume they were used by both adults and children. We can also assume it means that everyone participated in creating the moose.

'But it was not a kind of slave labour of children. They were involved to share common values, to join something important to all the people.'

Initial fieldwork found simple techniques were used to create the moose, with turf and earth 10-metres-wide dug out to make its shape before being filled with stones. 'The figure would initially have looked white and slightly shiny against the green grass background,' he said.

Different methods were deloyed to make the various parts of the geoglyph; for instance, a mix of clay and crushed stone was used to make the hooves. When part of the hind leg was excavated, archaeologists found the largest stones were on the edges, with the smaller ones inside. While there are similarities to the world famous Nazca Lines, in Peru, and to geoglyphs in England - such as the White Horse in Oxfordshire or the Dorset Giant - the experts believe there are no links.

Mr Grigoryev said: 'It may help if we find ceramics on the site. Ceramics could help us with the date and with understanding who these people were that created the geoglyph. It's not quite clear who the builders were. It is obvious that its creation has a big social importance. Geoglyphs are the symbols of unity'.

'Facts say that on this territory in the Neolithic and Eneolithic Ages lived hunters and fishermen. We conducted archaeological works on the site of a settlement nearby, on the lake shore, on the assumption that the builders of the geoglyph might live there. People have lived here since the Neolithic era but there was no sign of large social structures, nor that they did anything other than hunting and fishing', Stanislav Grigoryev said.

'It puzzles me a lot, I keep thinking about the people that built the geoglyph, and their purpose'.

The research team found traces of two ancient fireplaces at the site of the moose, both used only once, possibly in a significant ritual. Despite many unanswered questions, Mr Grigoryev warned against future large scale excavation and said officials should consider preserving the sanctity of the site. At the moment it is the world's most ancient geoglyph, dating back to about 4,000BC.

'The geoglyphs in Nazca are younger as are those in the UK, though there might be some of comparable age in Britain. But at the moment Zyuratkul's is the most ancient, and is the world's largest figure image, but which we mean geometrical or zoomorphic figures, because there are very long lines in Nasca, and here we speak about the figure. So it's not the largest geoglyph, but the largest figure image.

'It could become a tourist attraction and with a museum, but we need to think how it might be implemented'.

An intriguing question is whether more geoglyphs will become visible as researchers analyse Google Earth in detail.

Some 50 geoglyphs with various shapes and sizes, including a massive swastika, were recently discovered across northern Kazakhstan. There is no doubting the excitement people feel from seeing the moose. Russian journalist Yevgeny Bezborodov, originally from Siberia, said: 'It's rare when you film something truly exclusive - and this is what we got in the

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Re: Zyuratkul Elk by davidmorgan on Monday, 05 January 2015
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