WOGE (When On Google Earth) #111

[reynardo]

For my regular readers, I've got myself involved in When on Google Earth, a game where you post a picture of a location with archaological significance, and others try to work it out. I was lucky enough to realise that Chris Lyes' WOGE 110 was somewhere in the area of Greece, and then once I found the site I worked out its significance. Considering how beautiful it is there, I think I shall have to head on a fact-finding tour to check it in person.


Click on the picture for a bigger version, and please comment here rather than on Flickr.

The rules:

Q: What is When on Google Earth?
A: It’s a game for archaeologists, or anybody else willing to have a go!
Q: How do you play it?
A: Simple, you try to identify the site in the picture.
Q: Who wins?
A: The first person to correctly identify the site, including its major period of occupation, wins the game.
Q: What does the winner get?
A: The winner gets bragging rights and the chance to host the next When on Google Earth on his/her own blog!

As a first-time player (long time follower, etc), I hope this isn't too obscure - and on the other hand I do hope it isn't too obvious! :-)

For the curious in my readership, there are three of these games that I've found - WHERE on Google Earth Geological (currently at this site but about to be posted at the next location); Geographical (Slightly different rules, located here with an LJ RSS feed wongoogleearth); and this WHEN on Google Earth.

So - off you go. If you think you know it, post in the comments, first with the name of the location and its significance gets to do the next one! It's been guessed/deduced/located - the answer is in the comments.

Comments

[feodora.livejournal.com]

Its a bit like Placespotting

[reynardo.livejournal.com]

The Geographical one is, certainly. And interestingly enough, the WOGE Geological #241 was one of the many Christmas Islands as well - although I missed it completely :-)

I'm going to be kind with this one - sometimes the Archaological ones can be derned hard - so if there's nothing close after 5 days I'll start dropping hints.

[(Anonymous)]

Felix Bossert -> Gillian:

Hi Gillian, at your location I do not find an archeological theme but i did find an anthropological theme. Are you looking for something anthropological?

[reynardo.livejournal.com]

Felix, I may well be - it's a bit of a grey area, but you have probably dug further than the original digging team.

[(Anonymous)]

Felix->Gillian:
Hm, on your location all I find is the anthropological thing, that has been found 1912 and later on has been declared as falsified. Just to be sure, you said that's not what your looking for, correct?

[reynardo.livejournal.com]

Actually, I think you're correct - and here's me thinking this would be too obscure a location.

I apologise if it's too far outside the boundaries of this puzzle normally.

[(Anonymous)]

Felix Bossert
Piltdown, Uckfield, East Sussex 50.98°N, 0.055°E
The "Piltdown Man" is a famous anthropological hoax concerning the finding of the remains of a previously unknown early human. The hoax find consisted of fragments of a skull and jawbone collected in 1912 from a gravel pit. The significance of the specimen remained the subject of controversy until it was exposed in 1953 as a forgery, consisting of the lower jawbone of an orangutan that had been deliberately combined with the skull of a fully developed modern human.

Interesting story, I never had heard about. My last Woge (Alcatraz) was a little bit out of the archeological time frame. If I understand the 'veterans' of the game, we should concentrate more on archeological themes. I would define this as a timeframe from 8.000 BC up to the 18th maybe 19th century. But as a newbie on this game, I do not have a right for such a definition. Maybe one of the veterans could make a definition about the correct time frame?

[reynardo.livejournal.com]

Wisely spoken, Felix, and yes, it would be helpful to have a better definition. (I was also thinking about Aboriginal Rock Paintings, and wasn't sure where they'd fit in).

Also, how did you find it?

[(Anonymous)]

Felix Bossert:

I found you picture because of the copyright Information "Infoterra ltd". Infoterra has the rights for the pictures only in the UK (as far as i know), so that narrowed the search down. The rest was, like very often, LUCK. I was looking for an area with a similar colour pattern and found it quick.

WhenOnGoogleEarth is ready for hunting:
http://woge-archaeo.blogspot.com/2011/01/when-on-googleearth-112.html