Hey guys,
let's take a look at the aerial view of Etowah mounds.
You're looking at the tallest mound which is 63 feet tall
taller than a six-story building and covers
more than 3 acres of land. I like to call this the Great Pyramid
of Georgia because it does resemble many of the Mayan pyramids
with flat tops.
You can see the modern stairway but
even before that the mound builders had built
a solid stairway some of which is still
underneath what you see
Archaeologists guesstimate that this was built
about a thousand years ago but they have also found pottery
from 200 BC to 600 AD
which means that this site can even be more than
two thousand years old. In a minute
you'll see other mounds as well because this site
stretches for over 54
acres
and this is the panoramic view that the mound builders could see
from up top. You can also see
a smaller rectangular mound which is 10 feet tall
and now to the left you can see another circular mound
which is 25 feet tall. Now
the circular mound is not a perfect circle
but somewhat resembles a pentagon
There are three small mounds but you can't
see them because they have been nearly plowed down.
At the top of the mound
there is a large flat area - it was obviously used for some valuable purpose
but nobody knows
what it was used for.
To the left you can see a a ramp
in the shape of a giant Z I will explain this in a minute.
And flying about
a thousand feet above the ground you can see the river
on the left. Almost all the mounds in the US
or built near rivers or at least creeks.
This is the Z shapeed ramp I was talking about.
They might have created this to move
heavy material to the top of the pyramid. This is the most practical
logical way to think about this and i actually
walked up on this ramp. and you can see the staging area
in the middle which is large enough to turn an object
and move in the opposite direction.
Large buildings could have been built on top of the mound
and the ramp would have been crucial for that. In 2005
experts used magnetometers
and announced that a total of 140
buildings existed on the site this means that
they could detect walls of baked bricks and magnetic stones like basalt
and granite.
So what is so mysterious about the
Etowah mounds. Everything actually
we don't know who built them, why or when
on top of that, giant skeletons were found
right under the mounds, confirming that giant mound builders
built these fabulous structures.
The artifacts found here are also very mysterious
bird men, figures with horns and unusually large teeth
are some of the items that they found.
Here's the moat that was created around the mounds
possibly for protection. Very large
and not built as a circle but meanders around
like a snake
This is just like
a medieval castle and you can see that there is no moat
right in front of the large mound -
perfect way to regulate traffic.
This moat is about eight feet deep
and they probably even used boats because canoes
have been found.
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