And not all those genera disappeared synchronously at the YD boundary! Arguably, the most egregious example of “fitting” ancient structures into a lost civilization fantasy occurs at the Great Sphinx of Giza and the Sphinx and Valley temples.The major evidence Hancock brings to the table comes by way of the Sphinx water erosion hypothesis proposed by Boston University professor Robert Schoch.
In Fingerprints of the Gods, Hancock embarks on a worldwide quest to put together all the pieces of the vast and fascinating jigsaw of mankind’s hidden past. This book is a good starting point for anyone interested in real alternate history. Such naming could be and often was symbolic. One realizes that a person who would believe Hancock, or, for that matter, take seriously such theories as the faked moon landing, is still mentally a child. He claims that scientists are so blindly wedded to this dogma to the point that they cannot see the catastrophism before their eyes. So believe me, I get it and I love it. Shermer’s point about lack of technology becomes even more salient when you carefully examine Hancock’s proposal—the Magicians supposedly taught hunter-gatherers the secrets of asterisms (and even how to predict the destruction of our planet some 12,000 years in the future) but did not pass on simpler technologies like domestication of plants and crops or the use of metals and pottery? I am sure we would all be very interested to see what they find.As for the geochemistry, I doubt the academic community is as united in their opposition to the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis as you make out.Ultimately, to follow this debate (the geochemistry, cometary science, and our decoding of Gobekli Tepe) and reach a scientific conclusion one needs at least a semi-decent understanding of the statistics that underpins all science – confidence intervals, error bars etc. The earth passes through the Taurid belt in late October or early November and in June and July of each year, which creates meteor showers. So believe me, I get it and I love it. H��S�n�0��+�HDs��&�ӃS8�E�+/ b�Ѡ?���i;�a�Ё3�Y�<>ޥj�����PI�A�W,�Fb�`���k5�4xX9E���U��3�z�*P����D ��&&�b�x�� Q��bQ+i�n�_��_?�&u��C� �y�=}��H�����,"�e�ci�eN�ZF�X7N�bV7^�gn"��ڋ'��Ÿn4G%P��nT��-�0�c�S�\��rFA��#-GN4� I discovered it only recently and am now fascinated with the idea that mankind built a complex global civilization before the Clovis Comet disaster brought it to an end about 13,000 years ago.
This book was a fun look at alternate interpretations of existing historical data. Hancock is sort of the professorial-looking dude who actually looks and sounds like he knows what he's talking about.
Some people just have what my friend dismisses as “that gene” — they choose homeopathic over “allopathic” medicine, search for the “real” cause of 911, and believe in all sorts of invisible forces and beings. includes an intact roof, but for the fine quality of the many acres of beautiful reliefs that decorate its towering walls.
The obvious reason for this is that clay pottery and metals are typical of more advanced cultures. There are many carved images of animals at Göbekli Tepe, and attributing even one to a star pattern is more like astrology than science.Here is the rub.
There are many pillars both unearthed (44) and still buried at Göbekli Tepe, so it is not clear why pillar 43 has the significance they attribute to it—drawings of animals decorate most of the pillars. He also unearthed a paved processional causeway between the Valley temple and a mortuary temple adjacent to Khafre’s pyramid. There is a lot of hard work placing everything in context and in presenting a consistent integrated compilation. They do not like to look too closely at the history of their own species and their own culture any more than other humans do.I once asked the clerk in a book store (Barnes & Nobel?) Not only is clay pottery absent, the site contans no evidence of any metal or metal workings.
It’s now being “discovered” by researchers that some physical aspects of a human body seem to relate to psychological characteristics. But a careful reading of both Hancock makes no mention of these aspects of Lehner’s work, but he does tell us that “By virtue of the distinctive weathering patterns on that monument’s [the Sphinx] flanks and on sections of the trench that surrounds it—highlighted in the analysis of geology professor Robert Schoch of Boston University— a proto Sphinx does appear to have existed when heavy rains fell across Egypt at the end of the Ice Age.” Attentive readers will notice that Hancock links the weathering on the Sphinx with the weathering in the trench from which the walls of the Sphinx and Valley temples were extracted. I find that this seems to be lacking in much of the work of the opponents of the YDIH.It’s somewhat surprising that Von Daniken hasn’t sues him for “Magicians of the Gods”; mighty close to Von Daniken’s title.This is an excellent article. But what does this have to do with the earth’s precession?The earth wobbling on its axis over 26,000 years does not affect the earth’s orbit, so why would we expect large comet strikes every 12,900 years from the precession of the earth? In fact, archaeologists consider Göbekli Tepe to be a pre-pottery Neolithic site. Read 607 reviews from the world's largest community for readers.
Among the numberless ruined temples of Ancient Egypt, there is one that is unique not only for its marvellous state of preservation, which (rare indeed!) Well all I will say is that if you love finding out a lot about the ruins of Machu Pichu, the mysterious Nazca Lines of Peru, how Antarctica was at one time not covered with ice and mapped out this way by explorers as recently as 600 years ago, the ancient pyramids of Giza, Easter Island, etc.... then you need to read this book. Of course if you're looking for validation of stories in the Bible like the flood of Noah or the "Tower of Babel," etc., there is ample evidence in this book for those things. The sun goes in front of the Galactic center every December, and has for the last aeon. One is the claims about prehistoric climate. In Mayan culture it is described as a parrot.