Vera's Island Continues To Ask Riddles: Has A Stone Dinosaur Head Been Found? - Alternative View

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Vera's Island Continues To Ask Riddles: Has A Stone Dinosaur Head Been Found? - Alternative View
Vera's Island Continues To Ask Riddles: Has A Stone Dinosaur Head Been Found? - Alternative View

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In the excavation near the menhir, where the altar was found, they found a small panther head carved out of granite. Then another head was found. But the most unusual find was the head of an animal with horns or ears. Igor Fomin is sure that this is the head of a tyrannosaurus dinosaur …

This summer brought a lot of discoveries for scientists studying Vera Island on Lake Turgoyak. At the end of the season, the head of the Vera Island Foundation project, senior researcher at the Institute of History and Archeology of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences Stanislav Grigoriev and President of the Argonaut Club of Underwater Research and Search Expeditions Igor Fomin told about unknown people who created a powerful cult center in the South Urals.

History of Faith

Recall that excavations on the island have been underway for the third year already. During this time, scientists have found that 40 percent of the island is made up of archaeological and historical sites. The most ancient of them is the Neanderthal camp at the famous outlier, which is at least 60-100 thousand years old.

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The younger megaliths are structures made of large blocks of wild or rough-cut stone; there are a lot of them on the island. Traditionally, megaliths include dolmens, menhirs, cromlechs, stone boxes, covered galleries.

On the island were found two large megaliths - dolmens - megalithic structures in the form of vertically standing large stone slabs or stones, covered with a flat slab. In addition, scientists have discovered many menhirs - the simplest megalithic structures, consisting of a stone dug vertically into the ground, and covered galleries - an ensemble of dolmens in the form of a gallery, most often burial.

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The island turned out to be interesting not only for its ancient history, but almost modern. Archaeologists found the remains of an Old Believer skete, an old cemetery of monks on Vera Island, and found out that at one time the island was one of the largest Old Believer centers of the Southern Trans-Urals.

All these monuments now need to be studied, restored, reconstructed and preserved, creating a unique open-air museum on Turgoyak.

Underwater city

But, as it turned out, the island is not so simple and is fraught with a lot of unsolved. New discoveries were brought by divers who began to study the bottom of the Turgoyak. Diving club "Argonaut" and its president Igor Fomin found under water if not the city, then a significant part of it. Divers discovered and photographed and filmed various forms of underwater megaliths: many menhirs, dolmens and even pyramids! In addition, with the help of ultrasound in the muddy bottom, they found something resembling boat frames, ancient amphorae, and man-made walls. And all this is from 1.5 to 5 meters deep!

They were also surprised by the so-called abnormal accumulations of stones, when stones suddenly appeared at the bottom between two natural ridges, which should not be there. Often, such anomalous clusters have the correct shape and require more careful study.

The amazed archaeologists had to learn the basics of scuba diving and, together with divers, descend to the bottom of the lake.

- We set ourselves the task of “bury” the fantastic discoveries of divers, - Stanislav Grigoriev says with a smile. But the remaining 15 percent of us was simply shocked.

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It turned out that at the bottom of the lake there really are megaliths - structures of huge granite boulders, processed by people. Scientists asked the question: how did they get there? One of the answers suggested a dilapidated underwater dolmen found at a depth of 1.5–2 meters. It turned out to be carved into the rocky ground. It is clear that niktone would have carved a megalith under water, and therefore the level of the lake in those ancient times was much lower.

The same guess was confirmed by the granite ridges, which were clearly elongated along the east-west line, discovered at a depth of three meters. At first, the divers thought that they were also man-made, but scientists refuted this guess, but they noticed that these ridges were significantly broken by the surf. This means that the level of the lake was earlier at least three meters lower, if the surf could break these stones. Further more. At a depth of six meters, divers discovered walls that resemble hand-laid. It seemed to them that the boulders of which the walls were built were too regular in shape. Scientists have yet to confirm or deny this guess, but it is quite possible that the lake was once as much as five meters lower!

Turgoyak surprises not only divers and archaeologists; according to Igor Fomin, one of the scientists studying the lakes was amazed to see the unusual structure of the Turgoyak bottom when scanned. A diver and a limnologist found an underwater river at the bottom of the Turgoyak for the first time. It has long been known that the lake is fed by underwater springs, but no one has yet seen. Ultrasound showed that in one of the ridges there is a crevice, about a meter in size, cold water comes out of this crevice along the gutter. Now scientists have to take water samples from this underwater source.

Aliens and vacuum

However, the island itself threw mysteries to scientists. They began to excavate a small menhir and were amazed to find out that it was not just a stone buried vertically.

- We believed that large boulders weighing 20 tons are so heavy that they initially lay like this, and around them people placed small menhirs vertically, - says Stanislav Grigoriev. - But it turned out that these huge stones lie on loose ground, under them something there is, and besides, they cover the clearing in the rock, which could not have been done if the stones were immovable. This discovery gives us new search signs for megaliths in the Southern Urals. Now I understand that even ordinary rough boulders lying on the surface may well turn out to be megaliths.

And the menhir at these stones turned out to be a large ancient sanctuary. Archaeologists have discovered in front of him a huge altar and an artificially leveled site in ancient times.

- To level the ground like this, at that time it was necessary to make a huge effort, - Stanislav Grigoriev shakes his head in surprise. - Megaliths are huge and striking, but it seems that they are not the most labor-intensive objects here. For hundreds of years of human existence, such efforts and labor have been invested in this island that soon I will believe in anything here, except that these structures were blown out by aliens with a vacuum …

Not a single burial has been found on the island, so it is difficult to say what kind of people lived here. Grigoriev is inclined to think that the island's population spoke proto-Yenisean dialects. Now this dialect is spoken by only one people on the territory of our country - the Kets, in whose language there are many inclusions of Middle Eastern words. It is known for certain that chum hunters and fishermen living in taiga conditions once knew writing.

On the other hand, several ancient sculptures were found on the island. These discoveries were made by chance. In the excavation of the menhir, where the altar was found, they found a small panther head carved out of granite. Then another head was found. But the most unusual find was the head of an animal with horns or ears. Igor Fomin is sure that this is the head of a tyrannosaurus dinosaur. Stanislav Grigoriev is more cautious in his judgments, he calls the animal a tapir. Scientists generally do not want attention to be drawn to this find, they are afraid that people will simply not believe, but they will also begin to take lightly the really serious discoveries of the island.

Unique legacy

It is still unclear why the ancient people erected megaliths with heroic efforts. They are found all over the world, and in the South Urals they were discovered quite recently.

- Most likely, under small dolmens we will find the remains of cremation - ancient burials, - Stanislav Grigoriev believes. - Large ones were used for religious and calendar purposes. On the day of the equinox, a sunbeam illuminates the two largest megaliths of the Vera Island.

Another difficult task is determining the age of these monuments. Megaliths were found on the island, which, according to the current typology of dolmens, belong to different eras. Scientists still say that the megaliths on the island arose at the end of the fourth millennium BC and this culture existed in the South Urals for a long time, until the end of the third millennium BC.

Scientists will continue their work on the island. Many interesting discoveries promise finds in silt, which is a natural preservative. And silt deposits at the bottom of Turgoyak reach four meters. Research of Turgoyak itself, its water, bottom structure will also continue. Scientists want to find out exactly whether this lake is of volcanic origin or it was formed as a result of a meteorite fall.

New mysteries will be revealed next summer on the island itself. But research alone isn't enough. Today it is very important to restore and preserve for descendants the unique inheritance inherited from our ancestors.

- Any restoration work is meaningless until the objects are protected, - Stanislav Grigoriev says bitterly. - We need a security service, otherwise unique monuments can be destroyed literally by one vandal …

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