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Mark Holley
Personal blog · holleyarchaeology.comhistoryscience
Mark Holley's personal blog at holleyarchaeology.com covers history and science. Since 2020, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times. The last post was in 2019, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (9) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Mark Holley's posts to show the 2007 Lake Michigan stone line is a line of stones, not a henge, and to quote the archaeologist rebutting media hype about the site.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 9 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /wordpress/index.php/the-truth-about-the-stonehenge-in-lake-michigan/6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2020-12-19
- /index.php/the-truth-about-the-stonehenge-in-lake-michigan/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-10-12
What Hacker News says?
I would call it fake, if not for the website linked in top comment within this thread, that seems to be maintained by the founder of the stone site: https://holleyarchaeology.com/wordpress/index.php/the-truth-...
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on “9k-Year-Old Stonehenge-Like Structure Found Under Lake Michigan”I just hope they have a higher resolution of that rock without "supper-imposed" lines. I call it bullshit. Just look how beautiful it is: https://holleyarchaeology.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2... But no high-res pic of the real stone without "supper-imposed" lines. Oh btw they found crystal pyramids: https://archaeology-world.com/shock-claim-crystal-pyramids-f... Oh and that: https://archaeology-world.com/anci…
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on “9k-Year-Old Stonehenge-Like Structure Found Under Lake Michigan”It was found a few years ago, and the guy that found it has some stuff on his own site: https://holleyarchaeology.com/wordpress/index.php/the-truth-...
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on “9k-Year-Old Stonehenge-Like Structure Found Under Lake Michigan”A lot of the pictures used in articles for this are pictures of something else (possible an old ship). Here's what it actually looks like: https://holleyarchaeology.com/index.php/the-truth-about-the-... Calling it Stonehenge-like is a real stretch.
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on “Fields where Native Americans farmed a thousand years ago discovered in Michigan”Not convinced this is anything at all. Where's some clearer pictures? Where's a diagram of the circles? and sure enough from the man himself. https://holleyarchaeology.com/index.php/the-truth-about-the-... > For example, there is not a henge associated with the site and the individual stones are relatively small when compared to what most people think of as European standing stones. It should be clearly understood t…
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on “Lake Michigan Stonehenge – What have researchers learned?”It's not from the site discussed in the article, but instead the stern of a shipwreck called the Acme [0], which sunk in Lake Erie in 1867 [1]. Here's a photo from the actual site [2]. [0] http://www.wrecksandreefs.com/acme.htm [1] https://goo.gl/maps/VuskDMS3ZZYmpWDK8 [2] https://holleyarchaeology.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2...
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on “9k-Year-Old Stonehenge-Like Structure Found Under Lake Michigan”From 2020, post at the time[0] included 77 comments, 252 pts. That article was also a repeat, the original finding seems to have been in 2007 at https://holleyarchaeology.com/wordpress/index.php/the-truth-... [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25478693
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on “9k-Year-Old Stonehenge-Like Structure Found Under Lake Michigan”This was actually discovered in 2007, not recently. From the archeologist who discovered it: > This site seems to gain a life in the media about every six months or so. Sadly, much of the information out there is incorrect. For example, there is not a henge associated with the site and the individual stones are relatively small when compared to what most people think of as European standing stones. It should be clea…
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on “9k-Year-Old Stonehenge-Like Structure Found Under Lake Michigan”This site seems to gain a life in the media about every six months or so. Sadly, much of the information out there is incorrect. For example, there is not a henge associated with the site and the individual stones are relatively small when compared to what most people think of as European standing stones. It should be clearly understood that this is not a megalith site like Stonehenge. [...] Dr. John O’Shea from Uni…
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on “9k-Year-Old Stonehenge-Like Structure Found Under Lake Michigan”Here's the personal site of the professor involved. It was discovered in 2007, and its a line of stones, not a henge. https://holleyarchaeology.com/wordpress/index.php/the-truth-...
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on “Stonehenge-Like Structure Found Under Lake Michigan”
