Ball State University Archaeologists Claim Mounds State Park North Henge is Aligned to the Equinox. - Not

One henge and one earthwork have been found in Ohio that are aligned to the May 1 (Beltane) sunrise. Ball State University Archaeologists claim the North Henge at Mounds State Park is aligned to the Equinox sunrise. Did they not use a compass? In the History of Madison County, Indiana 1888, the north henge (Circle Mound) axis was measured at 67 degrees East. This is not true east, but north of east. This cannot align to the Equinox.  67 degrees is the May 1 (Beltane) sunrise.    

This Google Earth looking west into the gateway of the North Henge (Circle Mound). From the directional icon on the far right, you can see that the alignment is not true east. North of east at 67-degree alignment is Beltane May 1 sunrise. 

   The assumption of an equinox sunrise by Ball State archaeologists must have been done by dead reckoning.  Had they used a compass they would have known this is not aligned east. So much for the heralded Scientific Method. 

 In 2023 Mounds State Park welcomed people to join and witness the Equinox sunrise at the North Henge. Surprisingly, there were no photos. Wonder why? There were no posts to come to the fall equinox alignment either. 

   The May 1 alignment causes some trouble with archaeologists who don't believe in diffusion. The universities have doubled down with their belief that Native Americans were using the Pythagorean Theorem to build the geometric earthworks. The Pythagorean Theorem has been found and recognized by The Ohio History Connection and Ball State at Newark Ohio and Winchester, Indiana earthworks. 

I think the use of the word "Henge" to accurately describe the earthworks should be a clue as to whom really built them. 

   

MOUNDS STATE PARK, ANDERSON, INDIANA by Donald R. Cochran Beth K. McCord Illustrations by Aimee Smith Reports of Investigation 61 June 2001 Archaeological Resources Management Service Ball State University Muncie, Indiana 47306

  "Circle Mound Early drawings of the Circle Mound show it as long and narrow with rounded corners and curving sides. More recent maps show the enclosure as more rectangular with rounded corners. It measures 285' long and 225' wide. The ditch is about 30' wide and 5-6 feet deep, and the surrounding embankment varies between 4' and 6' in height. The platform is 148' long and 72' wide. The west end of the platform and a small area just to the left of the entrance are higher than the surrounding platform surface. Whether these higher areas represent artificial mounds is not currently known. The gateway is at the east end and the long axis of the enclosure is aligned due east and west. A park trail crosses the central platform and west wall of the enclosure. Two small mounds were situated on either side of the entrance and abutting the embankment. Both of these have been badly reduced in height by plowing as they were at the edge of a cultivated field. These small mounds were about 3feet high and 25 feet wide. The long axis of the enclosure lies on an east to west line. The sun would shine through the gateway and down the central platform at the equinox sunrise (September 21 and March 21). Sunset at these two dates would also fall on a line through the center of the enclosure and the gateway. The enclosure is also constructed in such a way that diagonal alignments through opposite corners mark sunset and sunrise alignments to the winter and summer solstice."

"The sun would shine," you never checked?