{"id":2939,"date":"2015-12-23T11:37:55","date_gmt":"2015-12-23T17:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=2939"},"modified":"2015-12-23T11:37:55","modified_gmt":"2015-12-23T17:37:55","slug":"unexpected-fact-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2015\/12\/23\/unexpected-fact-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Unexpected Fact of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I originally ran across this in the Winter 2015-2016 print edition of American Archaeology, but the article, a book review, doesn&#8217;t appear to be online.\u00a0 A little search online turned up <a href=\"http:\/\/ancientearthworksproject.org\/1\/post\/2014\/07\/newly-discovered-hopewell-mound-group-woodhenge-found-to-be-solstice-aligned.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>The Ancient Earthworks Project<\/strong><\/em><\/a> to confirm:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Adena_culture\" target=\"_blank\">Adena<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hopewell_tradition\" target=\"_blank\">Hopewell<\/a> aligned many of their earthworks to celestial events such as solstices. They also built many earthworks in geometric shapes and used standard units of measurement (Hively and Horn 1982; Romain 2000).<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: large;\">One of these units of measurement is equal to 1,054 feet. For convenience, we can call this the <strong>Hopewell Measurement Unit<\/strong>, or HMU. Thus 1 HMU = 1,054 feet. This unit of length is based on the diameter of the Newark Observatory Circle (Thomas 1894:16). This unit of length or its sub-multiples (e.g., 527 ft., 263.5 ft., 131.7 ft.) are found in the dimensions of every Hopewell earthwork assessed thus far, as well as most Adena earthworks. &#8211; William F. Romain, Ph.D.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Links added by myself.<\/p>\n<p>So there you have it.\u00a0 The <em>Hopewell Measurement Unit<\/em> is 1054 feet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I originally ran across this in the Winter 2015-2016 print edition of American Archaeology, but the article, a book review, doesn&#8217;t appear to be online.\u00a0 A little search online turned up The Ancient Earthworks Project to confirm: The Adena and Hopewell aligned many of their earthworks to celestial events such \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2015\/12\/23\/unexpected-fact-of-the-day\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2939"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2941,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2939\/revisions\/2941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}