When do you think this was made?

The well was built by the Nuragic civilization in estimated 1300 BC (3300 years old). The Nuragic civilization lived in Sardinia, an island in the Mediterranean Sea, from 1800 BC to 200 AD, and though they were remarkably skilled masons whose impressive stone structures still stand, they did not leave behind any written record. If your wondering what they did with the well; here’s the dope part — The well is lined up so that sunlight shines upon the water on the equinoxes, and moonlight shines upon the water at the maximum declination of the moon, which happens once every 18 years and 6 months.

Levitated Mass is a 2012 sculpture by Michael Heizer on the campus of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. It consists of a 340-ton boulder affixed above a concrete trench through which visitors may walk.

OK cool — we’re not here for the art though, we’re here for the WEIRD.

Well, I have a purpose here — I want to talk about how this rock got to its new forever home <3.

 The rock was loaded onto a 295-foot long, 196-wheeled transporter custom-built by Emmert International. Because of the transporter’s size and needs, the boulder could only be moved at night at a maximum speed of about seven miles per hour. Though the quarry is located less than 60 miles from the LACMA campus, a circuitous 106-mile route traversing 22 cities in 4 counties was taken in order to avoid busier roads or overpasses that could not support the combined weight of the boulder and transporter. To Sum things up: In 2012, a 340 ton boulder was moved from a rock quarry roughly 60 miles away.  A 295 foot long transporter with 196 wheels was used with a maximum speed of about seven miles per hour. Awesome. I am just going to leave this here for another conversation………. 

 …..yeah its 1,000 tons.

The Younger Dryas (12,900 to 11,700 years ago) was a return to glacial conditions which temporarily reversed the gradual climatic warming after the Last Glacial Maximum started receding around 20,000 years ago. It is named after the alpine-tundra wildflower Dryas octopetala, which was prevalent at the time.

So here’s the sitch; about 13,000 years ago the last ice age was winding down and the glaciers were receding. The spear hunting Wooley Mammoth business was about to go under but luckily they were allegedly able to cross the Bering Strait which was frozen at the time to North America (woot woot go America). Based on what I learned in school, those glaciers receded and made my home, Long Island, NY, thus concluding the ice age.

Due to advances in science we have found information that shows that 12,900 years ago something suddenly plunged the world back into an ice age but for only 1,200 years.  WTF (why the face)

There are 2 hypotheses that the great minds are testing 1. meteor impact or meteor atmospheric explosion 2. A volcano in Germany erupted around the same time that was big enough to cause serious damage  — below is a picture of what we call the YDB field (Younger Dryas Boundary) its where we have found evidence of the Younger Dryas Event.

The Stele of the Vultures is a monument from the Sumerians (2600–2350 BC) in Mesopotamia celebrating a victory of Lagash over its neighbour Umma. It shows various battle and religious scenes and is named after the vultures that can be seen in one of these scenes. This is the oldest known historical record in the World. The stele was originally carved out of a single slab of limestone, but only seven fragments are known today. We found this bad boy in Southern Iraq. In case you were wondering; its double sided!!