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Publications THE ALIGNMENTS SYSTEMGeoglyph. It is proved! Correspondent of "MK-Ural" has thrust in archaeological expedition which should confirm/deny the information about unique object on the territory of the Chelyabinsk area earlier not known geoglyph (see insert) before top of the Zjuratkulsky ridge. We declare with all responsibility: the new bright page is entered henceforth in the history of archaeological science geoglyph really exists and it is artificial object. Carrying out of archaeological investigation on September, 10-11th in Zjuratkulsky national park has allowed to prove the presence in the Chelyabinsk area geoglyph. The first not only in Russia, but also as a whole on the territory of huge Euroasian continent (!). The nearest analogues are the Uffingtonsky horse in England and images on terrestrial surface on Naska plateau in Peru. It is necessary to notice at once that geoglyphs in England and geoglyphs in Perus strongly concede in sizes to the Zjuratkulsky elk (to its image on the terrace before the Zjuratkulsky ridge). The figure of a huge elk which is accurately looked through in pictures from space, impresses: to 218 metres in length, 270 - by diagonal! We will repeat, this archaeological object today is the first and the only known on the territory of all Eurasia, nothing similar met to experts till now. Not won bet As soon as Alexey Shestakov who the first on Googles pictures has noticed something "such" and has drawn attention both experts, and the public to geoglyph , events began to develop promptly. Certainly, how it happens in such cases, opinions were instantly divided on polar corners. Some enthusiasts certainly and blindly immediately have believed in geoglyph that it is such one as in Naska. Others sceptically grinned and tried to deny, apparently, the obvious thing - space pictures with the accurate image. The main word as always had to say scientists therefore the employee of the State scientific production centre on protection of the cultural heritage of Chelyabinsk area Nikolay Menshenin and the candidate of historical sciences Stanislav Grigoriev (by the way, he is more known as the head of scientific researches on Belief island) left for this place and your obedient servant with them. It is an amusing episode, directly before our sortie one acquaintance proved hardly not with foam at his mouth to the author absurdity of geoglyph existence on Zjuratkule. «They are tropes ! Tropes!!! Get on the ridge and look attentively downwards, you will understand yourself. There is no any geoglyph !», such was the course of his proof. He added that he was some times himself on the place, many times there were other people there and nobody has noticed anything. From here, by his opinion smoothly followed that «it cannot be, because it can be never». To argue with him we did not become (my position - I will return, I will tell what and how. - the author ) though in the first day of excavation already that is on Saturday of September 10th. our small group has cleared away a small piece (fragment) of elk foot. As have calculated later my companions Nikolay Mihajlovich and Stanislav Arkadevich seven-metre on metre excavation has given the picture approximately in 0,05 percent from all image. But even it has sufficed to understand - it is man-made object, moreover, the big stones along the edges of foot border( from elk) were organically supplemented with laying from smaller stones in the centre. «To imagine that collapsing and creeping downwards rocks themselves for millenia have developed in the figure of elk is impossible», - Stanislav Grigoriev ascertained. To Nikolay Menshenin and the author of these lines remained nothing but to agree. And the main thing, the plot opened by us precisely correlated with the picture. Probably, with mathematical method it is possible to calculate probability of how under influence only the natural reasons stones and boulders could develop as if the puzzle in an elk. It seems the probability of this event will aspire to million parts.. They even have playfully blamed then: here is say, you could to win also cognac with bet... How does all it understand? So, we have agreed on the excavation to consider as the author of sensational discovery of inhabitant of Satka Alexey Shestakov. Honour of geogliph discovery legally belongs to him. Then the first researchers of this object, those which in practice have confirmed that it is just the man-made archaeological object which does not have yet of analogues on the territory of the country, certainly, it is necessary to consider of N. M.Menshenin and S.A.Grigoriev. And it is for ever. Certainly, during investigation (so our actions are called in official archaeological language), we could not keep from enumeration of versions, begining from that to whom in general it could come into the head to built such huge thing on foothill terrace before Zjuratkule and finishing the question, when and how all this has been executed. The author of these lines, carrying out his direct duty and without tear off from routine archaeological work, as far as it is possible tried to receive as much as possible information from scientists which , by the way, not always agreed with each other. That is as a whole and basically they agreed that unique object is found, in general, they have agreed at once to date it at this stage in very wide borders - VI-II a millenium B.C. And further hypotheses and guesses begin which nowadays toda explain a little. It is not enough we know now about the object, expensive analyses are necessary (for example, sporo-pollen one that will allow to calculate approximately date of the monument creation ), researches, complex work of archeologists, geologists, geophysicists and many other experts. The main and, probably, the most exciting question is and for what to the ancient people in the literal sense of word struggling sometimes for survival, it was required to fence the huge image of elk in foothills? Today is impossible to calculate, how many people and expenditures of labour was required so that geoglyph has been created all the same and in centuries and a millenium was visible from space, the further excavations are necessary. It is clear only that on construction of this sign not one ten persons and not one day and even month were busy. Any absurd versions concerning newcomers or that builders did any signs to aliens, we will agree at once - we reject aside them because of idiocy. We will leave these games for those who is especially advanced in the astral plan and directly that communicates either with space, or with civilisation on the Alpha Centaur. Geoglyph for us in the form of elk is purely terrestrial object, object, most likely sacral, the mountains themselves in this area are of white colour, in opinion both Menshenin, and Grigoriev, could be perceived also in the ancient society as a sacred place. But, again what for?! Under the general laughter on excavation Stanislav Arkadevich retells popularly one scientific theory very originally explaining the origin and appointment of similar objects. So, according to one western researcher, building of such huge constructions in the times of neolith and eneolithic helped … to regulate birth rate. To tell the truth, having heard such, Nikolay Mihajlovich and we could not come to the senses and think for a long time what such a way building of geogliph , moving to the huge distance of heavy boulders, removal of considerable quantity of soil could influence on demography. Grigoriev eventually has explained: the people occupied supposedly on building were tired strongly and consequently did the children not so actively.The general Homeric laughter was the comment to this hypothesis … Laughter, but such theory really exists. Later, at night during the supper, Arkadich who specially and seriously interested in the subject, tells one more original and already own version. In ihis opinion, the new population standing at higher step of development than aboriginal has come to these earth (that is a modern northwest corner of the Chelyabinsk area) in some period. «Then building of geoglyph can be perceived as demonstration of their power, and it was under construction, probably, joint forces of newcomers and local», - Grigoriev says. And what, it is probably logically, speaking with primitive language newcomers in such a way (by means of technologies and building of huge objects) at once clearly let know, who is, as they say, the main owner in the house It is interested, and what was then? «And then the time ran, distinctions between two societies smoothed out and at some stage they simply disappeared. "But at first was so", - Grigoriev adds. By the way, in his opinion both geoglyph and those megalithic complexes which he investigated throughout "2000" years on Belief island, can be the phenomena of one order. And even to start with one centre in the Near East. Unfortunately, today the science cannot draw the unequivocal conclusion, and whether it was so actually. We will repeat the systematic material accumulation are necessary and it is not excluded long researches, I say that in the Chelyabinsk area the archeology literally for last three decades has made a huge step forward, monuments of world level archeology were opened ,unique without false modesty. Arkaim, megalits of Belief island (including parking of paleolith times ), now the unique geoglyph in Eurasia Whether still will it be? «According to my calculations this figure, by the way, now wanders from report to report, on territory of our area is inspected only 10 % of lands. Do you imagine how many objects can be revealed?», - Nikolay Mihajlovich continues discussion. «We while investigated the fragment of geoglyph in 0.05 % ,certainly, it is not enough to draw any conclusions. Well, besides, that it exists», - he adds. According to words both Grigoriev, and Menshenin, now after the carried out investigation the report about made will leave for Moscow, in the Institute of Archeology of Russia then, probably, Stanislav Arkadevich will request on his name the open sheet (the document granting the right to conduct investigation and archaeological researches) . In this official document, but the report is a document, for the first time experts will draw a conclusion that in Southern Ural Mountains has been opened geoglyph. They will ask a permission for its further studying. Sight from skies It is necessary to warn, probably, all wishing to admire with geoglyph. A terrace (or a plateau?) before a ridge of Zjuratkul where actually is an image of the stylised elk, has grown with high up to belt and even the breast to the person grass and low forest . The construction itself and it we saw with eyes and cleared away with own hands is tightened with turf. So simple travel on this terrace along so-called ecological track of national park will not give results . An elk is not visible neither from the earth, nor from mountain in what we convinced ourselves having gone to the forehead to storm a top. So to idle about there late has no any meaning you "will not feel" the geoglyph with you feet. The situation on the terrace at the moment of geoglyph building , by the way, was absolutely other. The layer of humus which now is powerful enough, in those days (a few thousand years ago), practically was absent and this Menshenin and Grigoriev have precisely fixed in ours excavation. Most likely, it was pure, almost equal platform with a small bias towards the lake Zjuratkul. Because of it this platfom has been chosen by builders as an ideal place on the landscape for the image which was perfectly looked through from the mountain. Somewhere there the ancient should have the observant platform from which, probably, works were corrected on establishment of elk contours on the district . Perhaps, this platform was at the top stone outlier in the highest point of mountain, maybe, somewhere in the other place as since then the mountain continuously collapsed under the influence of elements. The answer to this question, probably, will be never received. How did geoglyph build? While researchers can give only the most approximate answer and it sounds as follows. Probably (but not obligatory!) some big stones lying on the earth, could be used by ancient people as dots from which they started during erection of construction. Probably, with the greatest boulders are made the borders of imagery as on the plot which we investigated . We will remind that there two big stones were borders of 5-metre strip of stones and in the centre it reminded more all the stone laying poured then with the soil and crushed stone. In short it is possible to argue tup to the point of exhaustion and to tell everything you like, excavations are necessary. Systematic and methodical ones. «From mountain the elk on the terrace was perfectly looked through in those days all construction was the new and this geoglyph was distinctly read from above», - Menshenin summarises. And really from top the of Zjuratkule the fine sights to four corners of the world opens . The naked eye of the person is capable to see mountains or spurs of mountains on the distance in tens kilometres. Directly under us there is the platform with geoglyph but it, certainly, we do not see. The time has made its business and now it is necessary to pull out from under the earth this monument of our far ancestors. Having finished a mountain sortie, we restore in rate the construction broken during the research and we go to base camp. It is time to go home, to the beginning of working week, everyone has his duties.It is possible to be assured precisely the next : within the next few days both to Nikolay Menshenin, and Stanislav Grigoriev it is necessary to communicate with representatives of the Russian and western mass-media . And still they will wait with impatience the estimation of professional community which very conservatively approaches to such opening. Not out of place it will be notice that ten years ago very few people from scientists believed that island of Belief in the middle of lake Turgojak megalithic constructions are found. Today it is proved and does not cause objections. So it will turn out with a geoglyph of Zjuratkule. |
