Newark Earthworks by drone

Ohio History Connection archeologist Brad Lepper describes the Newark Octagon Earthworks, one of eight earthwork complexes in Ohio are being nominated for the UNESCO World Heritage List. This 2,000-year-old creation is currently home to Moundbuilder's Country Club.

[@AGoodJoe]

It's a bummer that there has to be a golf course there. I mean it's great in that it's taken care of and enjoyed, but seems a bit insensitive.

[@iandalziel7405]

Par for course in the USA where most think history started with the 'settlers from Europe' - and this has fared better than many...

[@sef2273]

They don’t care they murdered Indians to begin with

[@geoffoutdoors]

Just really need to get rid of the golf course if its gonna be a unesco site. Theres no golf course at stonehenge.

[@laceylou3301]

i live right next to it! my dad use to take me on walks around the indian mounds when i was a little girl, we would talk and think about the native americans that once roamed the land here. I still do this today... knowing we share the same home as these natives has always fascinated me and makes me proud of where i come from. There is also an entire park of these earthworks that are preserved and not all covered by a golf course!

[@michaelranalli4735]

Awesome that s local is so excited for therse mounds maybe next time the lunar alignment is happening you should meet me over there Lucy if you would like to see something incredible that is

[@syntaxoid]

@@michaelranalli4735 gee that doesn't sound creepy at all

[@siriusfun]

Interestingly, the Shawnee elders have stated these earthworks and elaborate stone structures found throughout the Ohio Valley and into the eastern US were there when their ancestors arrived many thousands of years ago. The official narrative has too many contradictions; those in academia would do well to stop telling the natives they have 'amnesia' and have simply forgotten their own history. Incredibly arrogant. There are far better explanations for how these amazing constructs came to be, but they challenge conventional thinking too much.

[@qruztrump9301]

Tartarians

[@robchasing3140]

You tend to get amnesia after 2000 years and a 90% population decrease. Also, mound building was practiced all the way until 1730 when the french killed the last mound builders.

[@superhappyfuntimeshow]

haha no, the Shawnee elders have stated that their immediate ancestors constructed these mounds, not that they were discovered by their ancestors. And as paleo said, when 90 percent of your population is wiped out in an instant that includes your oral historians and your storytellers - its understood if maybe they aren't getting the timeline exactly correct. These mounds are hopewellian and they are around 1500 years old, tops, though the area was occupied much much longer than that.

[@superhappyfuntimeshow]

Make a video?

[@superhappyfuntimeshow]

@Luka Vega nice!!! That’s cool, keep on with what you’re doing 😊

[@timothius50]

So sad that almost all of their earthworks were plowed down in the later 1800s and only now exist on antique maps.

[@ShowStopperd5500]

Nice video thanks for the footage

[@gabrielgriffin9230]

@facesinthestone this is about one hour east of columbus and very near the world famous flint ridge quarry also in licking county and several other mounds including the alligator mound and the blacklick circles are close by to this site ..if you come to central ohio newark has several good sites all close together and would make a great afternoon of discovering

[@josephbarnes8000]

I hope you people don't think this was done with baskets and small hand tools.

[@totoike5265]

I get angry when people call every discovery of Astronomic significance a Religious structure. Our ancestors are not religious, we are after we lost link with our ancestors. The structures contain all the information we need to tell when it was built, how it was built, why it was built and when it was decomision, that is if it isnt still in operation.

[@thet3504]

No mention of the wooden coffee with the hebrew stone?

[@rust0fiend]

I just learned about this site thru Graham Hancock, and I was already shocked before pulling up this video that I never learned about all these giant earthworks and other amazing structures built by first nations... So I pulled up this video to check it out and it was like a hard slap on the face that it's managed in part by a country club, and has been turned into a GOLF COURSE?!!?! I'm actually crying heartbroken Native tears. What a disgrace. I guess I shouldn't be surprised. But yeah, this definitely needs to become a UNESCO site. How do we make that happen?

[@michaelranalli4735]

Gram Hancock is a moron when it comes to ohios earthworks so be careful as to what claims he makes

[@johndrummey9897]

go read Julian Huxleys " UNESCO Its Philosophy and Its Purpose" to see what he says the goal of making UNESCO world heritage sites is and I promise you will not want it to be anymore.

[@KG-lt9vl]

Golf course on a an ancient sacred site, it's like blasphemy.

[@justismcclain8131]

It’s so weird to think I’m 15 minutes away from this piece of history and I don’t think much about it

[@rhigel2269]

Justin: There are street signs on Main Street near the hospital. That is how I learned about it's existence. Justin, have you been to the "great circle" near Hwy 79?

[@melissawalker3888]

I am about 2 minutes. I wish that there were more records left to tell us more.

[@justismcclain8131]

@@melissawalker3888 yeah

[@tamlamoore7962]

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[@KarenCoy-oi2wo]

This is one of many that are alined with the cosmos. We were lived in advanced societies, not just "wild Indians" like the United States history classes or Hollyweird would lead many to believe.

[@jackcobbiii1797]

Big oak tree state park Missouri I believe has a connection.

[@kevine3634]

Anyone seen that sacred numbers video where this is somehow connected to the elevations and maybe if I remember the circumference of the earth being perfect only in relation to somehow heights of pyramids or Stonehenge or something?

[@n.daniel2393]

Killer soundtrack

[@michaelranalli4735]

Was there on only night alignment was visible will be at next

[@cynthiadonahey9989]

Those were playing fields until the 1920s. It was thought to have an amerindian basis, All the 1920s golf courses had the same origin. If you believe that., the big communications site are high places along the Ohio and Mississippi, abandoned brownland sites. high springs, I guess, are gone. All of the big drunks were accompanied by drumming, smells, and smoke up until the 1920s. they should test the air currents at this golf course,

[@Auhailbree]

something seems pretty messed up about teeing off atop, near, or around mounds that were created by ancient people. Though I see the appeal as a golf course....jfc....

[@rhigel2269]

Joe and Justin: If it wasn't for the golf course, this Indian site would be long gone. You wouldn't even know about it site, if the club members, members of the Newark community, hadn't provided the funds through membership to save this site. Those large beautiful trees would not exist today, if not for the golf course. I was allowed to walk around on the pathways, when I visited, twice. The State of Ohio could run short of money, because of the debt from Covid 19 and be forced to sale the site. The country club is willing to pay the leasing fee, therefore providing monies for the State to retain this property.

[@KG-lt9vl]

For something that's meant to be a magical and spiritual location site, just like the Great pyramid and Wall of China, we built a typical golf course. Great job America. 👀

[@Dillonmac96]

Can it being aligned to sun and moon phases be practical and not necessarily “religion” I just don’t see why people use words like religious and ritual they are vague. Knowing their knowledge on soil and alignments god knows what else I would be looking for a practical use as well and then it’s more of… is catching and eating animals gonna be ceremonial and “religious” yes in a sense it’s gonna be meaningful but I don’t think it’s comparable to religions today at all lol. Am I dumb?

[@ArciKoy-j1b]

God knows

[@saladdays180s9]

Was never constructed by ANYONE. These formations can be replicated with the same expected soil stratification using electrical plasma, in a lab. These were all formed by the celestial events well documented around the world in petroglyphs. Electromagnetism is 38 Billion Billion Billion Billion TIMES stronger than gravity. A simple plasma flare from our sun can stop the rotation of then Earth like it was on a string. When the plasma stream connects to Earth, sometimes the angle creates a focused pattern and like a giant magnifying lens heating a spot, the plasma incorporates matter based upon it atomic weight forming the oop art. Magic right? The Hopi sure thought so. The scary thing is they are still active. A permanent Van Allen Belt connection resonates from within Earth to connect the circuit, and hold everything in place. It has been measured and spins like an electrical plasma vortex should in relation to the rotation o the Earth. They are the Horns of Jericho when the electrical vortexes again open up due to celestial perturbation from the pole shift. They will open up everywhere and bellow rhythmically to the rhythm of God.