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Enigmatic designs found in India may be the largest images made by human hands

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The abstract of the actual paper[1] says they spotted the geoglyphs on gMaps, which I think is here[2].

1: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S23522...

2: https://goo.gl/maps/hu1URcRkGZMdRdSf6

Google maps is paywalled now?

Is it?

Looks like if you are logged with a corporate account, it is. But I don't know if this is new.

Google Earth and go back in time to ~2014 to see it clearly

Search this 27.27337595842934,70.98776016708896

Reference - https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S23522267210003...

A simple explanation for it would be a farming layout for irrigation.

Native of Thar here. Not from a farming family but it is extremely likely that this is for farming. Land tend to be arid and barren so selected passages that are low lying are cultivated just before monsoon season in the hope that water logging in the monsoon will irrigate it to get some crop.

I also translated the only book about the culture of Thari people from that region. Pdf link for anyone interested: https://github.com/ketancmaheshwari/dhati-book/raw/master/ma...

Depends on the age.

If it comes from time before agriculture, then it might be a remaining of an ice age hunting trap.

It says in the article that they're fairly recent (around 150 years ago). So agriculture seems likely.

Then, most likely they are.

Yes, and it looks like a "space filling" pattern with enough room between to do something like farming. It does not look like an abstract artwork.

Maybe they were made to be walked, like a labyrinth?

I heard these sorts of designs could have been used for fishing, or other types of hunting / farming.

Basically the fish are herded and funneled into some pattern where they are caught, maybe when the tide recedes or when they enter a choke point. Or maybe it's irrigation channels that somehow got cooked into the landscape permanently.

Thar desert is relatively flat, and close to the coast and rivers, so it's not inconceivable that it could have born more water in the past.

Could be yet another example of ancient human recordings of enigmatic and intricate "light shows" in the heavens:

Characteristics for the Occurrence of a High-Current, Z-Pinch Aurora as Recorded in Antiquity

https://plasmauniverse.info/downloadsCosmo/PerattTPSv31-2003...

Part 2:

https://plasmauniverse.info/downloadsCosmo/Peratt,et,al,TPSv...

Related publications:

https://plasmauniverse.info/NearEarth.html

Thanks for the links. At first I thought it was from some fringe web site, but actually it is from IEEE!

Maybe they should ask the people who live there?

Most of the nuclear tests by India was done in these regions in underground tunnels. Could this be somehow related to that?

Crops.

Aliens!

Thinking how much products have improved due to how cheap it is/was to manufacture in China for world wide sales. And the massive wealth gains made by the regular people in that Country. I'm supper excited what what India will do in the next half century. The potential art and innovation that will come out of that place is staggering. Millions of people will be lifted out of poverty and live up to their intellectual potential.

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