Heartland "Excavation", Wayne May Dowsing

[_Maksutov]

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From the blog:

I found a series of photos of the excavation on the Hidden in the Heartland group on Facebook. The photos were posted over a period of several days in May of 2015. They show Wayne May, Melancon (I think), a camera crew, and a gaggle of volunteers excavating in a field. Unsurprisingly, the photos do not show the discovery or excavation of a 20' wooden wall associated with a burned temple. The only "artifacts" pictured are a table full unidentifiable rocks, including a small round one which seems to have been the star of the show (many pictures of that). Over the course of several days, the strategy apparently moved from hand excavation blocks (n = 2?), to dowsing, to bulldozing, all apparently in effort to locate a wall that's not there.

If you enjoy looking at photos of a sloppy, sandy excavation that careens from optimism to desperation over the course of just a few days, I encourage you to go and look at the photos yourself (I suspect they won't be there for long). Here are few samples:

The "Zarahemla Temple" "Excavation"

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[_spotlight]

[Guest]

Behold Mormon archaeology in 2017.

So a civilization that fielded a million man army with written records, steel weapons, chariots, industries, cities, temples...and it comes down to this silly bit of theater.

[_Quasimodo]

Why are you laughing? May is obviously wearing Nephite battle gear that he just found at the bottom of that swimming pool style excavation. It looks to be in amazing shape.

[_Quasimodo]

Behold Mormon archaeology in 2017.

So a civilization that fielded a million man army with written records, steel weapons, chariots, industries, cities, temples...and it comes down to this silly bit of theater.

Well, as we all know, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. They just need to dig up the other four million square miles to find it.

[_Maksutov]

Behold Mormon archaeology in 2017.

So a civilization that fielded a million man army with written records, steel weapons, chariots, industries, cities, temples...and it comes down to this silly bit of theater.

Well, as we all know, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. They just need to dig up the other four million square miles to find it.

You're right, Quasi, I'm just a malicious meanie.

Something about this is familiar. A paranormal performer pretending to find buried treasure, even evidence of another civilization, using magical props....hmmm....

[_Quasimodo]

You're right, Quasi, I'm just a malicious meanie.

Stop talking trash about one of my friends!

Something about this is familiar. A paranormal performer pretending to find buried treasure, even evidence of another civilization, using magical props....hmmm....

It does have a familiar ring to it. Too bad May didn't find a good seer stone under all that sand. It would have made his work so much easier. Wait! All that sand must be a remnant of the local flood that carried Noah to Judea. Eureka!

[_Maksutov]

I think I understand now. The "Gift of the Rod" is how David McKane can reject all the research of actual anthropologists and historians and the legacy of the Hopewell descendents themselves. A dowsing rod always beats science when it's in the hands of a priesthood holder.

I wonder how it was incorporated into McKane's earthshaking genetic research? We need to get the details right for when Wayne May gets his Nobel Prize. And where's Meldrum? Oh, I know, he's off at Costco autographing books.

[_Maksutov]

Interesting. This is supposed to be a "Hopewell artifact" but its origins are murky.

http://forbiddenarchaeology2016.weebly. ... -by-shaggy

Maybe this is why McKane and Collins are so attracted to the Hopewell story?

[_EdGoble]

http://www.andywhiteanthropology.com/blog/photos-from-the-zarahemla-temple-excavation#comments

From the blog:

I found a series of photos of the excavation on the Hidden in the Heartland group on Facebook. The photos were posted over a period of several days in May of 2015. They show Wayne May, Melancon (I think), a camera crew, and a gaggle of volunteers excavating in a field. Unsurprisingly, the photos do not show the discovery or excavation of a 20' wooden wall associated with a burned temple. The only "artifacts" pictured are a table full unidentifiable rocks, including a small round one which seems to have been the star of the show (many pictures of that). Over the course of several days, the strategy apparently moved from hand excavation blocks (n = 2?), to dowsing, to bulldozing, all apparently in effort to locate a wall that's not there.

If you enjoy looking at photos of a sloppy, sandy excavation that careens from optimism to desperation over the course of just a few days, I encourage you to go and look at the photos yourself (I suspect they won't be there for long). Here are few samples:

The "Zarahemla Temple" "Excavation"

http://www.andywhiteanthropology.com/Brian Laundrie ... n#comments

http://www.andywhiteanthropology.com/Brian Laundrie ... te-in-iowa

https://www.reddit.com/r/exmormon/comme ... e_may_lds/

Its kind of amazing that they didn't just manufacture a bunch of fake artifacts to put on display like they did with Burrows Cave.
To this day, I don't think that May has actually been able to produce a real cave either, and over time they kept talking about how they were about to do an excavation to open up Burrows cave. I don't think that they ever did.