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Cahokia
Trip No.2 Entry No.1 Date Added: 9th Apr 2017
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2017. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 5
Cahokia - Monk's Mound submitted by bat400 on 10th Jul 2007. Monk's Mound taken from the SE.
bat 400. 23 June 2007.
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Log Text: A huge, sprawling site that gives you more and more if you spend some time at both the museum and walking the huge expanse. I've visited many times starting in the mid 1990's. The earthen mounds are so large and so many in number that it's easy to become overwhelmed and a bit numb ("... oh, there's another mound ...")
Walking around the site and climbing to the top of the largest earthwork in the US, Monk's Mound, gives you an idea of the size of the site. This is a truncated pyramid with several terraces. The footprint is larger than that of the stone pyramids of Giza.
Cahokia - Kunnemann Group
Date Added: 25th Aug 2017
Site Type: Ancient Temple
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Saw from a distance on 20th Aug 2017. My rating: Condition 1 Ambience 3
Cahokia - Kunnemann Group submitted by durhamnature on 3rd Mar 2013. Excavation of Kunnemann Mound, one of 6-11, from "Cahokia Mounds" via archive.org
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Horseshoe Lake Mound
Date Added: 25th Aug 2017
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Saw from a distance on 20th Aug 2017. My rating: Condition 1 Ambience 3
Horseshoe Lake Mound submitted by bat400 on 7th Sep 2017. The wooded area may indicate the remnant of the platform mound at this village site.
Photo by bat400, 20Aug2017.
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Cahokia - Mound 5.
Trip No.2 Entry No.12 Date Added: 23rd Apr 2017
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2007. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Cahokia - Mound 5 submitted by bat400 on 10th Jul 2007. Mound 5 appears in the background. I am standing next to the stockade reconstruction. An Earthwatch dig was going on in a trench across the path of the stockade, although no one was working that day.
bat400. 23 June 2007.
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Fort Ancient - Moorehead Circle
Date Added: 28th Apr 2017
Site Type: Timber Circle
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 21st Sep 2007
Fort Ancient - Moorehead Circle submitted by bat400 on 21st Sep 2007. A dig unit still open in the North Section. This is in the area of the timber circle that was first found by geophysical surveys in 2005. Several recent digs have focused on this structure.
Photo by bat400, 15 Sept 2007.
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Marietta Earthworks - Conus
Date Added: 28th Apr 2017
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 13th Jan 2013
Marietta Earthworks - Conus submitted by bat400 on 13th Jan 2013. The Conus Mound and its enclosing ditch and embankment. This view is from the south side.
Photo by bat400, October 2012.
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Marietta Earthworks
Date Added: 28th Apr 2017
Site Type: Misc. Earthwork
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 13th Jan 2013
Marietta Earthworks submitted by bat400 on 13th Jan 2013. A riverside park plaque showing the Marietta Earthwork Complex as is appeared when the modern town was first built in the late 18thC.
"Conus" with its embankment appears just upper left of the center.
The rectangular "Quadranaou" is at lower center and the "Capitolium" lying as one of the smaller rectangular mound between Conus and Quadranaou.
The "Sacra Via" appears at the right.
Photo by bat400, Oct 2012.
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Marietta Earthworks - Quadranaou
Date Added: 28th Apr 2017
Site Type: Pyramid / Mastaba
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 14th Jan 2013
Marietta Earthworks - Quadranaou submitted by bat400 on 14th Jan 2013. The Quadranaou, a flat topped earthen pyramid with centered ramps on each of the four sides. The slope you see at the extreme right and left are the ramps, and not the pyramid itself.
Photo by bat400, October 2012.
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University of Chicago Institute
Date Added: 28th Apr 2017
Site Type: Museum
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 31st Jan 2013
University of Chicago Oriental Institute submitted by bat400 on 31st Jan 2013. The Assyrian Lamassu at the Oriental Institute Museum at the University of Chicago.
Gypsum (?) Khorsabad, entrance to the throne room Neo-Assyrian Period, ca. 721-705 B.C. OIM A7369
This 40 ton statue - one of two flanking the entrance to the throne room of King Sargon II. A protective spirit known as a lamassu, it is shown as a composite being with he head of a human, the body and ears of a bull, and the wings of a bird. When viewed from the side, the creature appears to be walking; w...
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Dickson Mounds
Date Added: 28th Apr 2017
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Would like to visit on 1st Jan 0000
Dickson Mounds submitted by bat400 on 31st Jan 2013. Museum at Dickson Mounds, Illinois.
Photographer: MattHucke, 2008.
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Lake Koshkonong Mounds
Date Added: 28th Apr 2017
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 31st Mar 2013
Lake Koshkonong Mounds submitted by bat400 on 31st Mar 2013. One of the larger remaining mounds in this group, shaped like a turtle. However, this is just about impossible to tell from a photo, both because there is no way to see the overall shape from ground level, and because these mounds are not kept carefully trimmer of high vegetation or outlines with contrasting ground cover.
Photo by bat400, July 2010.
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Goodall Site
Date Added: 28th Apr 2017
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 7th Apr 2014
Goodall Site submitted by bat400 on 7th Apr 2014. Goodall.
Photo by bat400, ca. 2010.
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Escalante Pueblo
Date Added: 12th Sep 2010
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: United States
Visited: Yes on 28th Aug 2006
Escalante Pueblo submitted by bat400 on 28th Aug 2006. Escalante Pueblo, County, Colorado.
This pueblo foundation is from approximately 1130 AD, built by the Ancestral Puebloans. It is on a hilltop with Sleeping Ute Mountain to the south.
Photo by bat400, June 2003.
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Ras Al Khaimah Tombs
Date Added: 28th Apr 2017
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: United Arab Emirates
Visited: Would like to visit on 1st Jan 0000
Ras Al Khaimah Tombs submitted by bat400 on 21st Jan 2014. Shimal site Site in United Arab Emirates.
"One of the ancient tombs near Shimal, an indicator of how long the Ras al Khaimah area has been settled. This is from the Wadi Suq Period (almost 4000 years ago!). "
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One of the ancient tombs near Shimal, an indicator of how long the Ras al Khaimah area has been settled. This is from the Wadi Suq Period (almost 4000 years ago!). Earlier sites also exist nearby. For a brief introduction see the RAK Museum's site with more at Qarn a...
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Urkesh
Date Added: 28th Apr 2017
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Syria
Visited: Would like to visit on 1st Jan 0000
Urkesh submitted by bat400 on 23rd Sep 2013. View of Tell Mozan (northeast Syria), ancient Urkesh, from the north. The dighouse can be seen in the middle of the tell.
10 June 2005, work by: Zoeperkoe.
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Cueva del Sidrón
Date Added: 28th Apr 2017
Site Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Country: Spain (Asturias)
Visited: Would like to visit on 1st Jan 0000
Cueva del Sidrón submitted by bat400 on 19th Jul 2012. Working in a clean room, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, took extensive precautions to avoid contaminating Neanderthal DNA samples - extracted from bones like this one - with DNA from any other source, including modern humans. NHGRI researchers are part of the international team that sequenced the genome of the Neanderthal, Homo neanderthalensis. NOTE: There is no indication that the Neaderthal DNA being sequenced in this photo was take...
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Border Cave
Date Added: 28th Apr 2017
Site Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Country: South Africa
Visited: Would like to visit on 1st Jan 0000
Border Cave submitted by bat400 on 26th Sep 2012. Sifting of deposits at mouth of Border Cave, near Ingwavuma, South Africa.
Photo from excavations in the 1970s, dated 2 January 1971, by "Androstachys."
This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons. Commons is a freely licensed media file repository.
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Spitzkloof
Date Added: 28th Apr 2017
Site Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Country: South Africa
Visited: Would like to visit on 1st Jan 0000
Spitzkloof submitted by bat400 on 10th Oct 2012. Spitzkloof Rockshelter A.
Source: AMEMSA, http://www.amemsa.com/Spitzkloof.html, 2010 Photo Gallery, http://www.amemsa.com/Spitzkloof_files/DSCN0571.jpg.
Site in South Africa.
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Diepkloof
Date Added: 28th Apr 2017
Site Type: Rock Outcrop
Country: South Africa
Visited: Would like to visit on 1st Jan 0000
Diepkloof submitted by bat400 on 10th Oct 2012. General view of Diepkloof Rock Shelter site, South Africa
Vue générale du site de Diepkloof, Afrique du Sud
Date: 21 November 2009(2009-11-21)
Phototgrapher: Vincent Mourre / Inrap.
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Site in South Africa
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Malapa
Date Added: 28th Apr 2017
Site Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Country: South Africa
Visited: Would like to visit on 1st Jan 0000
Malapa submitted by bat400 on 15th Jan 2013. The Malapa site, August 2011 site of discovery of australopithecus sediba.
Photo by Lee R. Berger (as Profberger,) 15 July 2011.
Lee R. Berger , the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license: This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
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