dw practice:landmark http://wiki.waggy.org/dokuwiki/ 2010-09-10T01:08:40-04:00 dw http://wiki.waggy.org/dokuwiki/ http://wiki.waggy.org/dokuwiki/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2007-01-24T13:22:33-04:00 Landmark Ideas http://wiki.waggy.org/dokuwiki/practice/landmark/ideas?rev=1169662953&do=diff Landmark Ideas * Sunken Gardens of Babylon * Newgrange * Chaco Canyon * Mesa Verde text/html 2007-04-08T00:12:46-04:00 Newgrange Notes http://wiki.waggy.org/dokuwiki/practice/landmark/notes?rev=1176005566&do=diff Here are some helpful sites. * Newgrange Ireland - Megalithic Passage Tomb - World Heritage Site * Good Pics! * Shadowsandstone.com Photography by Ken Williams - powered by smugmug Two good interior pics. * Good Stone Alignment Info suggests later standing stones were put in place on significant astronomical dates. * <http://www.nd.edu/~ikuijt/Ireland/Sites/jstahl/detail.htm> ---Good description with measurements. * <http://homepage.eircom.net/~archaeology/three/knowth.ht… text/html 2007-04-11T16:10:12-04:00 4/10 Landmark Term Paper Due http://wiki.waggy.org/dokuwiki/practice/landmark/paper?rev=1176322212&do=diff 4/10 Landmark Term Paper Due --- David Wagner 2007/04/07 19:41 This paper puts forward an alternative hypothesis, with Newgrange as an example, of the organization of labor, or rather the lack of organization, needed to build megalithic passage graves* in late neolithic Ireland. The structures we see today are the accumulated result of decades or centuries of the memorial customs of the people of the late neolithic. [http://knowth.com] text/html 2007-02-20T10:13:20-04:00 2/20 Landmark Proposal Presentation http://wiki.waggy.org/dokuwiki/practice/landmark/present_proposal?rev=1171984400&do=diff * * text/html 2007-01-22T18:11:01-04:00 4/10 Landmark Presentation http://wiki.waggy.org/dokuwiki/practice/landmark/presentation?rev=1169507461&do=diff text/html 2007-01-22T17:49:23-04:00 1/23 Landmark Proposal http://wiki.waggy.org/dokuwiki/practice/landmark/proposal?rev=1169506163&do=diff 1/23 Landmark Proposal by David Wagner for CE 4803 Engineering Practice as taught by Dr. Shih ---------- Over 5000 years ago, before even the Great Pyramid of Giza was erected, hundreds of workers toiled for decades to erect a great mound of stone and turf and face it with sparkling quartz. Not content merely to shift tons of material into a rude pile, they precisely aligned the stones in a roofbox so the winter solstice sunrise penetrates deep inside for seventeen minutes.