Unusual Tournament Posted December 9, 2018 #1 Share Posted December 9, 2018 Arkaim: Russia's Stonehenge and a puzzle of the Ancient World 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaylemurph Posted December 9, 2018 #2 Share Posted December 9, 2018 Risky, you know better than just to post a video. Say something to start a conversation or stop wasting our time. —Jaylemurph 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Wearer of Hats Posted December 9, 2018 #3 Share Posted December 9, 2018 Ohh good lord that narration grinds my gears. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmt_sesh Posted December 9, 2018 #4 Share Posted December 9, 2018 17 minutes ago, Sir Wearer of Hats said: Ohh good lord that narration grinds my gears. I like to watch YT videos as much as the next person, but when I come across one of those computer-generated voices, I immediately click off. 8 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unusual Tournament Posted December 9, 2018 Author #5 Share Posted December 9, 2018 another concentric circle designed city-town just like Atlantis and Troy. very bronze age... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Wearer of Hats Posted December 9, 2018 #6 Share Posted December 9, 2018 4 minutes ago, Captain Risky said: another concentric circle designed city-town just like Atlantis and Troy. very bronze age... Circle is a logical choice for defence - you can position archers in the centre and have 360 degree fire arcs, there are no corners to obscure line of sight, no weak points to be assailed, it needs the least amount of material for the greatest surface area, winds blow around curves rather than batter against flat surfaces. theres also an enduring image from that period of human history of the spiral. 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unusual Tournament Posted December 9, 2018 Author #7 Share Posted December 9, 2018 Just now, Sir Wearer of Hats said: Circle is a logical choice for defence - you can position archers in the centre and have 360 degree fire arcs, there are no corners to obscure line of sight, no weak points to be assailed, it needs the least amount of material for the greatest surface area, winds blow around curves rather than batter against flat surfaces. theres also an enduring image from that period of human history of the spiral. yes and no. even though its a great defensive position its really only suited to flat land where the terrain requires equal vigilance on all sides. on an island or mountainous land the shape of the geography should dictate the shape and size of the citadel. which brings me to my next point... circled cities like those of Atlantis must have been inland cities with canals and rivers. water would have been important so i wonder if there was a river running through or very close to this city of Arkaim in ancient times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmt_sesh Posted December 9, 2018 #8 Share Posted December 9, 2018 12 minutes ago, Captain Risky said: another concentric circle designed city-town just like Atlantis and Troy. very bronze age... Good observation, but in another thread I explained Atlantis (if real) would be neolithic or pre-Chalcolithic. Nothing in the historical record would place Atlantis in the Bronze Age. Then again, there's no such thing as Atlantis, is there? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Wearer of Hats Posted December 9, 2018 #9 Share Posted December 9, 2018 Just now, Captain Risky said: yes and no. even though its a great defensive position its really only suited to flat land where the terrain requires equal vigilance on all sides. on an island or mountainous land the shape of the geography should dictate the shape and size of the citadel. which brings me to my next point... circled cities like those of Atlantis must have been inland cities with canals and rivers. water would have been important so i wonder if there was a river running through or very close to this city of Arkaim in ancient times. Please don’t tell me this is ANOTHER proof by innuendo thread for Atlantis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unusual Tournament Posted December 9, 2018 Author #10 Share Posted December 9, 2018 Just now, kmt_sesh said: Good observation, but in another thread I explained Atlantis (if real) would be neolithic or pre-Chalcolithic. Nothing in the historical record would place Atlantis in the Bronze Age. Then again, there's no such thing as Atlantis, is there? yes but Atlantis is described as a concentric circled city. thats a bronze age mind at work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Wearer of Hats Posted December 9, 2018 #11 Share Posted December 9, 2018 Just now, Captain Risky said: yes but Atlantis is described as a concentric circled city. thats a bronze age mind at work. That’s the mind of anyone in the possession of a pair of sticks or a stick anf some rope who has decided to make one of those cool round circle things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unusual Tournament Posted December 9, 2018 Author #12 Share Posted December 9, 2018 1 minute ago, Sir Wearer of Hats said: Please don’t tell me this is ANOTHER proof by innuendo thread for Atlantis. just an observation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Wearer of Hats Posted December 9, 2018 #13 Share Posted December 9, 2018 Interesting suggestion that the concentric circles are a model of the universe on the Wiki page on Arkaim. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hanslune Posted December 9, 2018 #14 Share Posted December 9, 2018 https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/b11a/37afae783b7bc5ab89927d7beac53ad0101a.pdf https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Victor_Shnirelman/publication/233650737_Passions_about_Arkaim_Russian_Nationalism_the_Aryans_and_the_Politics_of_Archaeology/links/5a53b977458515e7b72f10de/Passions-about-Arkaim-Russian-Nationalism-the-Aryans-and-the-Politics-of-Archaeology.pdf A bit more info on this place. Rupert tells me it was a Atlantean rest stop and outhouse on the route to The Manpupuner rock formations (in Russia) which are the reset buttons for earth. Unfortunately the contractor made them a bit to big and there is no one presently around big enough to push them in. Poor planning and the manual explaining what each one does - if pushed in - was written in a language that only clever scallops could read and the last intelligent scallop was accidentally made into a seafood cocktail around 29,000 BCE. 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tatetopa Posted December 9, 2018 #15 Share Posted December 9, 2018 1 hour ago, Captain Risky said: yes but Atlantis is described as a concentric circled city. thats a bronze age mind at work. If Risky is noting that the origin of the Atlantis story lies in the Bronze age, that may be a valid observation without verifying the actual existence of Atlantis itself. Plato was around 450 BC I think. The Iron age in Greece started several hundred years earlier. Possible that Plato was just dusting off an older tale? A story doesn't have to be true to make it worth retelling or adapting. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unusual Tournament Posted December 9, 2018 Author #16 Share Posted December 9, 2018 2 hours ago, Tatetopa said: If Risky is noting that the origin of the Atlantis story lies in the Bronze age, that may be a valid observation without verifying the actual existence of Atlantis itself. Plato was around 450 BC I think. The Iron age in Greece started several hundred years earlier. Possible that Plato was just dusting off an older tale? A story doesn't have to be true to make it worth retelling or adapting. correct! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unusual Tournament Posted December 9, 2018 Author #17 Share Posted December 9, 2018 Flat plains, lots of rivers and canals, horse and chariots, elephants. Bigger than North Africa, outside the pillars of Hercules, mountain ranges north of the city. On an Island or continent. Springs with hot and cold water. Animals of all kinds and forests with tall trees. Pillars of Hercules? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Wearer of Hats Posted December 10, 2018 #18 Share Posted December 10, 2018 9 hours ago, Captain Risky said: Flat plains, lots of rivers and canals, horse and chariots, elephants. Bigger than North Africa, outside the pillars of Hercules, mountain ranges north of the city. On an Island or continent. Springs with hot and cold water. Animals of all kinds and forests with tall trees. Pillars of Hercules? You’re doing a great job of making a nonsense of your previous rebuttal that the references to Atlantis was “just an observation”. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unusual Tournament Posted December 10, 2018 Author #19 Share Posted December 10, 2018 17 minutes ago, Sir Wearer of Hats said: You’re doing a great job of making a nonsense of your previous rebuttal that the references to Atlantis was “just an observation”. I'm just posting out loud and you're paranoid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Wearer of Hats Posted December 10, 2018 #20 Share Posted December 10, 2018 48 minutes ago, Captain Risky said: I'm just posting out loud and you're paranoid. I might be a big fella, but to call me a paironoids is just rude. Take it back or I shall tell Mother. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unusual Tournament Posted December 11, 2018 Author #21 Share Posted December 11, 2018 Elongated skull from Arkaim. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nnicolette Posted December 11, 2018 #22 Share Posted December 11, 2018 (edited) Twenty two comma zero zero zero foot? If one uses thier imagination it almost looks like a swastika? No. I will admit I'm interested in learning more about the site and the history of people during the time all these neolithic monuments were constructed. The video has some point of interest but also it is complete nonsense. Edited December 11, 2018 by Nnicolette 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atalante Posted December 11, 2018 #23 Share Posted December 11, 2018 Arkaim was part of the Sintashta cuture, in a region that is called the "Country of towns". https://soartv.tv/blog/country-of-towns-ancient-cities-of-russia.html 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Essan Posted December 12, 2018 #24 Share Posted December 12, 2018 On 12/9/2018 at 10:35 PM, Captain Risky said: Flat plains, lots of rivers and canals, horse and chariots, elephants. Bigger than North Africa, outside the pillars of Hercules, mountain ranges north of the city. On an Island or continent. Springs with hot and cold water. Animals of all kinds and forests with tall trees. Pillars of Hercules? No elephants Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmccr8 Posted December 12, 2018 #25 Share Posted December 12, 2018 3 hours ago, Essan said: No elephants Hi Essan I believe in Atlantis Russia that no they did not have elephants but they were waxing wooly mammoths. jmccr8 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Create an account or sign in to comment
You need to be a member in order to leave a comment
Create an account
Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!
Register a new accountSign in
Already have an account? Sign in here.
Sign In Now