Study Guide Flashcards
Places - Nazca Plains
Straight lines, flowers, animals, birds, etc. Designed to be seen fully from above
Intended for sky deities: sun and moon
Wikipedia:
The Nazca Lines are a group of very large geoglyphs formed by depressions or shallow incisions made in the soil of the Nazca Desert in southern Peru. They were created between 500 BCE and 500 CE.
Most lines run straight across the landscape, but there are also figurative designs of animals and plants, made up of lines
Places - Palenque
Maya city state
K’inich Janaab Pakal I ruled this area, famous for Temple of the Inscriptions
Wikipedia:
Palenque, also anciently known as Lakamha, was a Maya city state in southern Mexico that flourished in the 7th century. The Palenque ruins date from ca. 226 BC to ca. AD 799. After its decline, it was absorbed into the jungle of cedar, mahogany, and sapodilla trees, but has since been excavated and restored
Places - Glastonbury Abbey
- First Christian sanctuary in England
- Discovered by Frederick Bligh Bond
Places - Preseli Mountains
- Original quarry location of the Bluestones used in Stonehenge
- Located in Wales, ~150 miles away
Places - Stonehenge
- Best known of Europe’s Megaliths
- Built to signify Winter Solstice (Dec 21)
- Made of Bluestone (small ones) and Sarson menhirs
- Thought to be built 2300 BC with only bluestone
- Renovated 2100 BC with Sarsons
- Renovated again 1900 BC with addition of another ring of Sarsons outside
- 3x as many Bluestone flakes in soil than local stone
Places - Temple of the Inscriptions
- Burial place of K’inich Janaab Pakal I
- Lots of inscriptions talking about Pakal’s ascension 4100 years in the future
Places - Stepped Pyramid of Djoser
- Oldest known Egyptian pyramid - 2630 BC
- Djoser was 2nd king in Egypt’s 3rd dynasty
Places - Hierakonpolis
Burial place of the oldest artificial mummification
Places - Newgrange
- Ireland
- Megalithic Passage Tomb built around 3200 BC
- Mound covers an area over one acre surrounded by 97 kerbstones
- Crucifix shaped chamber with a corbelled roof
- Estimated to take 300 people at least 20 years
Places - Carnac
Area in Britain, containing many different menhirs and may be the site of the worlds oldest Megaliths
Places - Rapa Nui
Location of a lot of statues called Moai
WIKIPEDIA:
Easter Island is a Chilean island in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, at the southeasternmost point of the Polynesian Triangle in Oceania. Easter Island is most famous for its nearly 1,000 extant monumental statues, called moai, created by the early Rapa Nui people.
People - Frederick Bligh Bond
- Psychic Archaeologist
- Investigated Glastonbury Abbey
- Found five chapels and foundations of the cloisters
- Also a competent field excavator and dug where any good archaeologist would
People - Jeffrey Goodman
- Known for his idea that modern man was FIRST found in California 500,000 years ago (not Africa)
- Wrote “American Genesis” where he claims man came from the Garden of Eden
People - Amesbury Archer
- Skeleton found near Stonehenge
- Very well preserved (2300 BC)
- Massive trauma to knee and nasty tooth infection, likely went to Stonehenge for healing
- Hailed from Beaker culture
- Very rich assortment of grave items (obviously was important person)
People - Frank Waters
- Wrote about Hopi mythology
- Wrote Mexico Mystique: The Coming Sixth World of Consciousness
- Identifies Dec 24, 2011 as the end of the “Great Cycle”
People - John Major Jenkins
- Wrote Galactic Alignment
- His theory is that the ancient Maya chose the 2012 end-date because this is the date on which occurs a rare alignment of the solstice sun with the Galactic Center
