Once again our Friends Wayne May, Mike and Betty LaFontaine, John Lefgren, Richard Moats, Mike Baker, Jeff Green, Ryan Sorensen, Kevin Price and more are in Montrose Iowa for the past few weeks searching for signs of ancient civilization that dates to the Book of Mormon times. This is their second report after they found many Ancient Round Houses and ancient fire pits on Nov 17-18, 2020.

More details will be coming as the team evaluates these scans completely. The Heartland Group is also planning to do some core sample testing of the fire pits and round houses in the next few months or so. You can help them by donating here: https://zarahemla.site/donation

Dateline — November 19th, 2020, Montrose, Iowa. Today we finished the last day of our two-week expedition in our search for ancient habitation on the west bank of the Upper Mississippi at Montrose, Iowa. During the last 14 days we have scanned more than 500 acres. The Heartland Research team has been on a score of sites. The local landowners have been very cooperative as we have moved across the surface of their fields with the SENSYS MV X3. We now have billions of data values that identify the impact of ancient civilizations on the magnetic signatures of soils and rocks. We know for certain that Native People thousands of years ago cooked food, brought light to their rooms and warmth to their homes with the keeping of fires. The heat from these ancient fires changed the magnetic properties of the soils and rocks. The changes in the magnetic signatures are measured from the ground. The SENSYS scanning produced gray-scale magnetic images that are comparable in their details to MRI scans of the human body. The German equipment measured fine magnetic forces at an extremely fast rate. The Heartland Research Group is a serious scientific project involving the talents of 15 people who have more than 400 years of professional experience. The group of talented people came to make magnetic scans of the land in and near Montrose, Iowa. We succeeded in that effort. The scans recovered 16 unique data values in a space that was one-quarter of an inch by one-quarter of an inch. A data set included the fine measurement of magnetic force (nano-Telsa) with two GPS coordinates for each point of observation. The research’s primary focus was to identify variations in the gradients of the nano-Tesla levels to locate fire pits, post holes, roads, and other changes that native people made in the soil as they lived their lives more than a thousand years ago. The Research Group has confirmed that the river’s west bank in the area of the Des Moines Rapids had an ancient population that was greater than today’s population. In some areas from the scanning, we can say that the densities of ancient populations were more than 300 people per acre. The world’s best sensing technology recorded differences in magnetic forces that were about three feet under the ground data that outlined the pre-European settlements of fields in the area of Montrose. The German Company SENSYS demonstrated the capability of its technology in Iowa just as it has at several sites in Europe and Africa. The results are of great interest and will only add to the legacy of the lands. The research was entirely non-invasive. The technology did not turn a shovelful of dirt. There was no more effect on the ground than if a Boy Scout had used a compass to orient his map. The success of the search depended entirely upon the science that produces exact measurements. The SENSYS fluxgate tube measured one-billionth of a Tesla (one nano-Tesla). The earth’s magnetic force is 50,000 nano-Teslas. So, the SENSYS machine is about 1/50,000th as sensitive as that force that moves a compass needle. This fineness of measurement made it possible to locate the activities of people who lived thousands of years ago. These measurements are beyond the understanding of any scientist or engineer from a past generation. We have only begun the analysis of hundreds of scans. It became clear that the greatest density of populations was highest in Montrose, near the west bank of the Mississippi River. Stand by as we prepare our analytical reports.   ©2020 Zarahemla | 2681 Milan Street Easton, PA 18045 US

ANCIENT ROUNDHOUSES IN IOWA
See previous blog here about this same testing in Iowa:

Understanding Hopewell & Adena Earthworks in Ohio

September 27, 2018
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