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TAC 2011 Film and Video Festival mysteriesancienttitle

 

 

 

 

Painting of Hopewell Culture people, showing earthworks           Arial view of Hopewell site, outlining earthworks        

 

  

 

Beginning over 2000 years ago, enormous earthworks were built along Ohio’s Scioto River, all constructed on a grand scale with intriguing precision. Many were designed as combinations of giant geometric squares, circles, and octagons. Amazingly, the earthworks seem to adhere to a master architectural design, the earthen signature of a bygone culture. We will never know what these people called themselves, but today the ancient builders are known to archaeologists as the Hopewell Culture. These people had neither towns nor villages. But they did have big ideas and advanced understandings of geometry and astronomy to carry them out. The mysteries persist. Yet, here, we find a tantalizing glimpse into a way of life that resulted in monuments of earth that challenge the imagination.

 

 

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Length: 52 min.
Country: US
Language: English
Director: Gray Warriner
Producer: Gray Warriner, Camera One
Producer Web site: www.cameraone.us
Distributor: Camera One
Distributor Web site: www.cameraone.us

 

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