James R. Allison

I haven't seen that. It's far enough from the southwestern U.S. where I usually work that I don't keep up on new findings very well. But I'm interested, so I'll look into it.

Here's another view. The Ohio Historical Society overlaid an 1848 map of the Newark Earthworks on the satellite image (www.ohiohistory.org/x-marks-the-...; the first image I posted.came from there as well). The golf course is in the upper left corner.

Satellite image of a golf course in Newark, Ohio that is built on top of ancient Native American earthworks in the form of an octagon and a circle.

My favorite example is the Newark Earthworks, a world heritage site in Newark, Ohio. A large octagonal earthwork connected to a circle take up the entire golf course. The earthworks are still visible but difficult to see because of vegetation and golf course features (zoom in for a better view).

ICYMI

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As an archaeology professor, one of my main jobs is teaching students to dig holes together. If they can learn to keep the sidewalls straight and document what they find, they'll learn a lot. And maybe they'll find out what's making that noise.

There are a couple of foreign films I can think of: The Night of Counting the Years, an Egyptian film made in 1969 that you can find on youtube (but maybe not anywhere else), and Ragnarok -- a 2013 Norwegian movie about an archaeologist looking for Vikings and finding a monster.