Heartland "Excavation", Wayne May Dowsing

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Re: Heartland "Excavation", Wayne May Dowsing

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EdGoble wrote:
Maksutov wrote: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.


Ed, where can I go to get the straight story on Burrows Cave? And what can you tell me about Brewers Cave? PM if you prefer.
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Re: Heartland "Excavation", Wayne May Dowsing

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How some of the volunteers reacted when they saw the excavated hole in the earth.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69_Dp8tXHd0
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