Atlantis, Arkansas?
Ernie Fitzpatrick asked:
Here’s a trivia question for you that could lead to a good night conversation, if you have the time or inclination(s). According to carbon dating (you’ll need to defend that to anyone religious), what is the oldest city in North America? Before they answer that you might offer that the city was built around 1600BCE (give or take a few hundred years). So, we’re talking about 3,600 years ago. Coincidently, this would be around the time of the great flood. Remember Moses?
And the city was? Poverty Point, Arkansas!
You’ve got to be kidding me! Nope, and the archaelogical find (not until 1950) was constructed exactly as historical descriptions of Atlantis are remembered. Why an Atlantean community in Poverty Point, Arkansas?
We have radiocarbon dates that indicate that some raw materials were being traded to the Poverty Point site and other sections of the Poverty Point culture area by 1730 B.C. such as imported rocks and minerals include various cherts and flints, soapstone, hematite, magnetite, slate, galena, copper, and many others. The geometrical design is exactly like pictures and stories of Atlantis with alternating rings and moats leading to the central structure.
Based on artifacts and other archaeological finds, it’s estimated that some 5-15,000 people inhabited the city that was built on a similar Atlantean hill requiring more than a half million yards of soil to build. Historians have built a scenario wherein an influx of people came at both 1600 and 1100 which coincides with the alst two destructions of Atlantis.
And then suddenly the city, the community died, became covered over with debris and was left unnoticed until a samll plane flew over the area in 1950 and thought the “hill” looked somewhat suspicious and thus the excavation began unraveling what historians now believe was a community built by surviving Atlanteans.
Who knows for sure?
Here’s a trivia question for you that could lead to a good night conversation, if you have the time or inclination(s). According to carbon dating (you’ll need to defend that to anyone religious), what is the oldest city in North America? Before they answer that you might offer that the city was built around 1600BCE (give or take a few hundred years). So, we’re talking about 3,600 years ago. Coincidently, this would be around the time of the great flood. Remember Moses?
And the city was? Poverty Point, Arkansas!
You’ve got to be kidding me! Nope, and the archaelogical find (not until 1950) was constructed exactly as historical descriptions of Atlantis are remembered. Why an Atlantean community in Poverty Point, Arkansas?
We have radiocarbon dates that indicate that some raw materials were being traded to the Poverty Point site and other sections of the Poverty Point culture area by 1730 B.C. such as imported rocks and minerals include various cherts and flints, soapstone, hematite, magnetite, slate, galena, copper, and many others. The geometrical design is exactly like pictures and stories of Atlantis with alternating rings and moats leading to the central structure.
Based on artifacts and other archaeological finds, it’s estimated that some 5-15,000 people inhabited the city that was built on a similar Atlantean hill requiring more than a half million yards of soil to build. Historians have built a scenario wherein an influx of people came at both 1600 and 1100 which coincides with the alst two destructions of Atlantis.
And then suddenly the city, the community died, became covered over with debris and was left unnoticed until a samll plane flew over the area in 1950 and thought the “hill” looked somewhat suspicious and thus the excavation began unraveling what historians now believe was a community built by surviving Atlanteans.
Who knows for sure?