Look Smart Trivia: Archaeological Sites
7A certain '80s film franchise led a generation of kids to believe the archaeologist’s life was all about snakes and whips and breakneck chases on runaway mine cars. The kids who followed that dream found out it was mostly brushing dirt off of pebbles. But we owe them our thanks for enduring that tedium so we could sit back and marvel at their discoveries with our sense of wonder and adventure intact. Here are five ancient hotspots around the world. Name all five before anybody else, and you’ll unearth a $5 Meh coupon. It beats brushing dirt off of pebbles. Insert signoff catchphrase here!
@therealjrn recognized all five of the child-actors-turned-musicians in our Child Stars Rock quiz yesterday. I think this kid might go places:
- Janet Jackson
- Ricky Nelson
- Drake
- Micky Dolenz
- Jenny Lewis
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@carl669 Nailed it!
Thanks @JasonToon! These are fun
@therealjrn “Kid.”
What I’ve learned today are there are too many damn petroglyphs and mounds of dirt in the world.
Tholos at Delphi
Tamgaly in Kazakhstan
Granaries of Harappa (Indus)
Tikal (Mayan)
Cahokia (America)
@djslack Doesn’t really look like Cahokia to me. Appears Cahokia has steps leading up that big mound and the photo above has what looks like mountains behind it.
@djslack Of course I could be wrong. Finally found an image that matched Cahokia.
@cinoclav I wasn’t sure myself but it looked pretty close to some photos I found. You did give me some self doubt though
@djslack It’s funny, I wasn’t able to find anything that really matched it so I had all but ruled it out. Then I suddenly found one similar photo. Have to give @JasonToon credit - some of the photos lately have been almost impossible to find. Almost…
@djslack Holy Shite! Using Google isn’t cheating?
@djslack @SnakeCharmer Oddly enough, it wasn’t Google that gave me the last two I needed.
To clarify #1: Athena Pronaia Temple, Delphi, Greece
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@cinoclav Punda is absolutely right, my guess at Tamgaly is wrong. Congrats!
@djslack Thank you. Same issue as Cahokia - couldn’t find any exact matches on those drawings. Got to the point I was searching for specific styles of petroglyphs to see if I could match that to regions. One more photo search and I finally found the part with the hunter.
@cinoclav @djslack darmok and jalad at tanagra