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Posted by Michael Bulatovich on March 4, 2008, 8:31 am
The circular structure at the ruins of Sechin Bajo is about 5,500 years old,
archaeologists report.
http://www.latimes.com/news/custom/scimedemail/la-fg-peru26feb26,0,6450418.story
(I'm thinking the dimensions are an American typo, confusing feet and
meters.)
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Posted by Michael Bulatovich on March 4, 2008, 9:04 am
>
> The circular structure at the ruins of Sechin Bajo is about 5,500 years
> old, archaeologists report.
>
http://www.latimes.com/news/custom/scimedemail/la-fg-peru26feb26,0,6450418.story
>
> (I'm thinking the dimensions are an American typo, confusing feet and
> meters.)
"Upon further review" maybe this plaza was fairly small, guessing the radius
by looking at the photo...
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Posted by Kris Krieger on March 4, 2008, 2:25 pm
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>>
>> The circular structure at the ruins of Sechin Bajo is about 5,500
>> years old, archaeologists report.
>> http://www.latimes.com/news/custom/scimedemail/la-fg-peru26feb26,0,645
>> 0418.story
>>
>> (I'm thinking the dimensions are an American typo, confusing feet and
>> meters.)
>
> "Upon further review" maybe this plaza was fairly small, guessing the
> radius by looking at the photo...
I wondered about tha, but it's impossible to say without further
info/photos, because the photographer might have been focusing upon the
interesting detail, rather than upon the overall area. Maybe a search will
uncover some additional photos/info, hang on, here we go:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22+Sechin+Bajo+%22
I opened
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=18552
So it seems, from a cursory glance at least, that the article's author did,
in fact, screw up in using "feet" as the unit of measure.
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Posted by Kris Krieger on March 4, 2008, 2:21 pm
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> The circular structure at the ruins of Sechin Bajo is about 5,500
> years old, archaeologists report.
> http://www.latimes.com/news/custom/scimedemail/la-fg-peru26feb26,0,6450
> 418.story
Interesting!
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> (I'm thinking the dimensions are an American typo, confusing feet and
> meters.)
Not surprising, since the writer didn't even know that the plural of
millenium is 'millenia', not 'milleniums' =:-/
((And then we wonder why the rest of the world thinks we're all idiots...))
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