{"id":204,"date":"2020-05-29T02:55:28","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T01:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/realancienthistory.com\/?p=204"},"modified":"2023-06-02T13:34:30","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T12:34:30","slug":"our-terraced-past-part-3a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/realancienthistory.com\/?p=204","title":{"rendered":"Our Terraced Past (Part 3A) – Namibia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Figure 1: Namibia – Plane flying over remains of terraced structures<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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The African country of Namibia is covered in the remains of terraced structures which are mistaken for natural or ‘geological’ features of the landscape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We will start by looking at Namibia as a whole in Part A before looking particularly at perhaps the countrys best known feature, Fish River Canyon in Part B. It is our belief that these are remains of structures built around the river, rather than having been created by it. Water erosion cannot account for the terraced shape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our interest in Namibia was fuelled by the views available on Google Maps & Bing Maps which we will share below. This is often a great starting point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The images can be clicked for more detail. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Figure 2: Namibia – Google Maps – Characteristic shape with terraced edges arguably not of natural origin <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Figure 2: Namibia – Google Maps – Terraced structures seen from above<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Figure 3: Namibia – Google Maps – Terraced structures from above<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Figure 4: Namibia – Google Maps – Remains of structures<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Figure 5: Namibia – Google Maps – Terraced layers are evident<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Figure 6: Namibia – Google Maps – This is what most of these remains look like today ie very little features left but the terracing <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Figure 7: Namibia – view from above of structural remains – the more pronounced remains can be seen at the right-hand side and top<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Figure 8: Namibia – Remains of terraced structures<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Figure 9: Namibia – One of the few places where detail can still be made out of structural remains<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Figure 10: Namibia – Note the terraced pyramid hill\/mountain tops on the top right which are still visible today<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Figure 11: Namibia – Remains of terraced (and possibly domed) structure<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Figure 12: Namibia – These ‘cliffs’ are in fact remains of artifical structures built in a terraced style<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Namibia The African country of Namibia is covered in the remains of terraced structures which are mistaken for natural or ‘geological’ features of the landscape. We will start by looking at Namibia as a whole in Part A before looking particularly at perhaps the countrys best known feature, Fish River Canyon in Part B. It […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terraced-domed-structures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/realancienthistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/realancienthistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/realancienthistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realancienthistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realancienthistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/realancienthistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":769,"href":"https:\/\/realancienthistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions\/769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/realancienthistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realancienthistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realancienthistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}