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Archaeologists explore a rural field in Kansas, and a lost city emerges
"Journalist Ari Berman: If Trump Is Allowed to Rig the Census, Then All of U.S. Democracy Is Rigged"
By David Kelly Aug 19, 2018 | 4:00 AM
Professor Donald Blakeslee in one of the pits being excavated in Arkansas City, Kan. (David Kelly / For The Times)
Of all the places to discover a lost city, this pleasing little community seems an unlikely candidate.
There are no vine-covered temples or impenetrable jungles here — just an old-fashioned downtown, a drug store that serves up root beer floats and rambling houses along shady brick lanes.
Yet there’s always been something — something just below the surface.
Locals have long scoured fields and river banks for arrowheads and bits of pottery, amassing huge collections. Then there were those murky tales of a sprawling city on the Great Plains and a chief who drank from a goblet of gold.
A few years ago, Donald Blakeslee, an anthropologist and archaeology professor at Wichita State University, began piecing things together. And what he’s found has spurred a rethinking of traditional views on the early settlement of the Midwest, while potentially filling a major gap in American history.
Using freshly translated documents written by the Spanish conquistadors more than 400 years ago and an array of high-tech equipment, Blakeslee located what he believes to be the lost city of Etzanoa, home to perhaps 20,000 people between 1450 and 1700.
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[ Insert: Rayado Indians
Rayados was the Spanish name for a Native American group visited by Umana and Leyba in 1594 and Juan de Oñate in 1601. The Rayado village, called Etzanoa, the "Great Settlement," was probably in southern Kansas near the Arkansas River. The Rayados were Wichita Indians related to those visited in Quivira by Francisco Vásquez de Coronado in 1541.
In April 2017, the location of Etzanoa was finally discovered, after a local teen found a cannonball linked to a battle near Etzanoa that took place in the year 1601. Local researchers used this artifact as evidence which enabled them to pinpoint the location of Etzanoa.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayado_Indians ]
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They lived in thatched, beehive-shaped houses that ran for at least five miles along the bluffs and banks of the Walnut and Arkansas rivers. Blakeslee says the site is the second-largest ancient settlement in the country after Cahokia in Illinois.
On a recent morning, Blakeslee supervised a group of Wichita State students excavating a series of rectangular pits in a local field.
Continued - http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-kansas-lost-city-20180819-htmlstory.html?int=lat_digitaladshouse_bx-modal_acquisition-subscriber_ngux_display-ad-interstitial_bx-bonus-story_______
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Earliest Known Human Footprints in North America Found on Canadian Island
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/28/science/footprints-oldest-north-america.html
study http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0193522
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https://phys.org/news/2018-03-year-human-footprints-canada-pacific.html
more: https://news.google.com/news/story/dFpKjTdJ_cagWCMVhaiBpf_xKanSM?ned=us&gl=US&hl=en
almost bottom of "stashed March 28, 2018:" in one of F6's big ones.
"Journalist Ari Berman: If Trump Is Allowed to Rig the Census, Then All of U.S. Democracy Is Rigged"
By David Kelly Aug 19, 2018 | 4:00 AM
Professor Donald Blakeslee in one of the pits being excavated in Arkansas City, Kan. (David Kelly / For The Times)
Of all the places to discover a lost city, this pleasing little community seems an unlikely candidate.
There are no vine-covered temples or impenetrable jungles here — just an old-fashioned downtown, a drug store that serves up root beer floats and rambling houses along shady brick lanes.
Yet there’s always been something — something just below the surface.
Locals have long scoured fields and river banks for arrowheads and bits of pottery, amassing huge collections. Then there were those murky tales of a sprawling city on the Great Plains and a chief who drank from a goblet of gold.
A few years ago, Donald Blakeslee, an anthropologist and archaeology professor at Wichita State University, began piecing things together. And what he’s found has spurred a rethinking of traditional views on the early settlement of the Midwest, while potentially filling a major gap in American history.
Using freshly translated documents written by the Spanish conquistadors more than 400 years ago and an array of high-tech equipment, Blakeslee located what he believes to be the lost city of Etzanoa, home to perhaps 20,000 people between 1450 and 1700.
---
[ Insert: Rayado Indians
Rayados was the Spanish name for a Native American group visited by Umana and Leyba in 1594 and Juan de Oñate in 1601. The Rayado village, called Etzanoa, the "Great Settlement," was probably in southern Kansas near the Arkansas River. The Rayados were Wichita Indians related to those visited in Quivira by Francisco Vásquez de Coronado in 1541.
In April 2017, the location of Etzanoa was finally discovered, after a local teen found a cannonball linked to a battle near Etzanoa that took place in the year 1601. Local researchers used this artifact as evidence which enabled them to pinpoint the location of Etzanoa.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayado_Indians ]
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They lived in thatched, beehive-shaped houses that ran for at least five miles along the bluffs and banks of the Walnut and Arkansas rivers. Blakeslee says the site is the second-largest ancient settlement in the country after Cahokia in Illinois.
On a recent morning, Blakeslee supervised a group of Wichita State students excavating a series of rectangular pits in a local field.
Continued - http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-kansas-lost-city-20180819-htmlstory.html?int=lat_digitaladshouse_bx-modal_acquisition-subscriber_ngux_display-ad-interstitial_bx-bonus-story_______
Posted specifically to:
Earliest Known Human Footprints in North America Found on Canadian Island
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/28/science/footprints-oldest-north-america.html
study http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0193522
Archaeologists Discover 29 Human Footprints From the Last Ice Age
https://gizmodo.com/archaeologists-discover-29-human-footprints-from-the-la-1824147540
13,000-year old human footprints found off Canada's Pacific coast
https://phys.org/news/2018-03-year-human-footprints-canada-pacific.html
more: https://news.google.com/news/story/dFpKjTdJ_cagWCMVhaiBpf_xKanSM?ned=us&gl=US&hl=en
almost bottom of "stashed March 28, 2018:" in one of F6's big ones.
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