High in the skies over Kazakhstan, space-age technology has revealed an ancient mystery on the ground.
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Satellite pictures of a remote and treeless northern steppe reveal colossal earthworks — geometric figures of squares, crosses, lines and rings the size of several football fields, recognizable only from the air and the oldest estimated at 8,000 years old. The largest, near a Neolithic
settlement, is a giant square of 101 raised mounds, its opposite
corners connected by a diagonal cross, covering more terrain than the
Great Pyramid of Cheops. Another is a kind of three-limbed swastika, its
arms ending in zigzags bent counterclockwise. Described
last year at an archaeology conference in Istanbul as unique and
previously unstudied, the earthworks, in the Turgai region of northern
Kazakhstan, number at least 260 — mounds, trenches and ramparts —
arrayed in five basic shapes. Spotted on Google Earth in 2007 by a Kazakh economist and archaeology enthusiast, Dmitriy Dey, the so-called Steppe Geoglyphs remain deeply puzzling and largely unknown to the outside world...more
Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
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