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    Archaeologists explore a rural field in Kansas, and a lost city emerges

    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.



    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.

    Jeremiah Perkins, 21, brushed dirt from a half-buried black pot.

    Others sifted soil over screened boxes, revealing arrowheads, pottery and stone scrapers used to thin buffalo hides.

    Blakeslee, 75, became intrigued by Etzanoa after scholars at UC Berkeley retranslated in 2013 the often muddled Spanish accounts of their forays into what is now Kansas. The new versions were more cogent, precise and vivid.

    “I thought, ‘Wow, their eyewitness descriptions are so clear it’s like you were there.’ I wanted to see if the archaeology fit their descriptions,” he said. “Every single detail matched this place.”

    More at: http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-...tmlstory.html#
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    If they find my golden goblet let me know . The Chief of Etz wanted me to have it .
    Do something Danke

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    Quote Originally Posted by oyarde View Post
    If they find my golden goblet let me know . The Chief of Etz wanted me to have it .
    The symbol of your right to rule the mid-west?
    Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

    Robert Heinlein

    Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler

    Groucho Marx

    I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.

    Linus, from the Peanuts comic

    You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith

    Alexis de Torqueville

    Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
    Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it

    A Zero Hedge comment

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    Quote Originally Posted by Swordsmyth View Post
    The symbol of your right to rule the mid-west?
    That is an excellent idea , the midwest & the northern hinterland of minesota .
    Do something Danke



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