This is a fair piece on a string
of confounding material evidence that shows recent capabilities of metal
working but are plausibly datable to the period 70,000 BP through 15,000 BP.
For those who have been following
my thoughts and conjectures on the human emergence, this is no surprise, but it
is well worth quickly outlining the gist of the conjecture. It makes it easier to wade through this
stuff.
1
Modern man emerged from his foundation niche and filled
the global niche as an effective hunter gatherer some 70,000 years ago. After thirty thousands of years, a
recognizably modern lifeway emerged dependent on lowland agriculture and the
continental shelf was occupied. A large
population was established and over several thousands of years, modernism was achieved. This all happened within time frames we
recognize as plausible and answers the not asked question of why not?
2
A modern society was established that was land bound
and unable to exploit the Northern Hemisphere significantly because of the Ice
Age. The population attained was still
equivalent to today’s population of several billion. The decision was made to evacuate the human
population as much as possible into space habitats, and plausibly to Mars
habitats and any other convenient sheltering environment. Once this was achieved, a comet was targeted
on the North Pole to trigger a crustal shift of thirty degrees south along the
meridian through Hudson Bay . This ended the million year long northern Ice
Age and ushered in the Holocene.
The evidence supporting this
conjecture is huge and all around us if we actually look. Thus out of place tools are an obvious fit
and the presence of gold mining is also part of the story. It is likely as they withdrew from the
surface of the Earth in preparation for the crustal shift, that they spent some
effort to clean up after themselves as much as possible. However plenty of sites would have not been
worth the effort and we are tripping over some of that from time to time.
The conjecture does have huge
consequences however. The big one and
the one most clearly in our face is that the major mountain ranges arose and
major eras subsided directly as a result of the crustal shift as the underlying
curvature was changed. Quite simply, the
Andes slip off the equator and was compressed, while the Gulf
of Mexico thinned as it was stretched leading to huge subsidence. At the same time, India
slid off the Equator and was uplifted to produce the Tibetan Plateau and the
Himalayas while we had subsidence in the Indian Ocean
were it is claimed a continent disappeared.
I would be quite happy to say
that there is no evidence of this and leave it out there as a curious
conjecture. The fact remains that this
conjecture becomes wonderfully useful as an interpretive device in terms of
understanding geology. We can always
start with the sea horses in Lake Titicaca . There are just too many fresh faces of rock
that is not millions of years old.
A consequence of this conjecture
is that the Snake River Basalts could easily have been produced mere fifteen
thousand or so years ago as a result of the massive fracturing induced by the
crustal shift. We have a source rock in
the Yellowstone Hot spot to make it all likely.
Again, as I have said before and
reported in the attached item, we have confirming evidence in the form of human
artifacts under the basalt.
I am not going to comment on
dates in deep time as these are plausible artifacts of penetration of those
strata by this predecessor culture. The
may have been some such form of intelligent activity but it was not our lineage
and we can leave it alone until a lot of compelling evidence shows up. Just remember that rock chambers and coal
chambers will seal up and fill in over long periods of time and none of this
can be really dated.
Odd Things in Wrong Places.
http://paranormal.about.com/gi/o.htm
As man digs and scrapes and drills into the mysterious earth, many surprising finds are made. It follows that mining and farming have been fruitful sources of curious finds in the past. We can feel strong regrets that as both occupations have become more and more mechanized, fewer and fewer finds of value for scientific study will occur. The following interesting items make two important points. If conventional dating is followed, ancient man seems to be far more ancient than he should be. In fact, he must have been thriving before he is supposed to have evolved. Second, ancient man was a very sophisticated person. There is no indication that his brain gradually evolved. Both of these conclusions, obviously, are completely opposite to evolutionary theory.
As man digs and scrapes and drills into the mysterious earth, many surprising finds are made. It follows that mining and farming have been fruitful sources of curious finds in the past. We can feel strong regrets that as both occupations have become more and more mechanized, fewer and fewer finds of value for scientific study will occur. The following interesting items make two important points. If conventional dating is followed, ancient man seems to be far more ancient than he should be. In fact, he must have been thriving before he is supposed to have evolved. Second, ancient man was a very sophisticated person. There is no indication that his brain gradually evolved. Both of these conclusions, obviously, are completely opposite to evolutionary theory.
One of the most prodigious lava flow in the history of the world occurred in the
Still, there are several curious things about this lava flow. Many
competent observers have commented on the remarkable freshness of the deposit,
as though the eruptions took place in very recent times. A startling find was
made in 1889 near Nampa , Idaho . While workers were boring an artesian
well, a small figurine of baked clay was extracted from a depth of 320 feet.
Above the figurine, the drill, inside a 6-inch tubing, had cut through fifteen
feet of basalt lava and many other strata. The find has never been challenged
except to say that it was impossible. The conclusion is unmistakable. Before
the basalt flowed, sophisticated humans lived in the area (Velikovsky, 1955,
p.87; Pensee , May 1972, 2:2, p.18). Ancient men lived in California . They worked
the hardest stones, fabricated perfect granite mortars and dishes, used a
circular, skillet-like vessel made of lava, hard as iron, which had three legs
and a spout, made polished stone axes with perfect holes drilled in them for a
handle, and fashioned ladles, disks or quoits. They were able to bore into the
bowels of mountains for gold and silver.
One ancient shaft was drilled 210 feet down into solid rock. An altar
for worship was found there. Other finds include the following: a mortar for
grinding gold ore at a depth of 300 feet in a mining tunnel, a mortar and
pestle weighing 30 pounds, beads, perforated stones, a 40-pound oval granite
dish. One human skull was found at a depth of 130 feet under five beds of lava
and tufa separated by layers of gravel. Man came before the lava flowed, and
deep canyons have been cut by rivers since the lava spread. An amazing number of
stone relics have been found. The finding are almost always in gold-bearing
rock or gravels (Victoria Institute , 1879, 15:193-198).
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Nothing describes what has been discovered in
Far from where anyone lives or human feet ever travel, men dig the shafts of mines. There they work in loneliness, clinging to ropes in the pits. There are mines where silver is dug. There are places where gold is refined. Men dig iron out of the ground and melt copper out of the stones. Men explore the deepest darkness. They search the depths of the earth and dig for rocks in the darkness. Food grows out of the earth, but underneath the same earth all is torn up and crushed. The stones of the earth contain sapphires, and the dust contains gold. No hawk sees the roads to the mines, and no vulture ever flies over them. No lion or other fierce beast ever travels those lonely roads. Men dig the hardest rocks, dig mountains away at their base. As they tunnel through the rock, they discover precious stones. They dig to the sources of rivers and bring to light what is hidden. The value of wisdom is more than coral, or crystal, or rubies, or the finest topaz and the purest gold.
In the museum at Moses Lake , Washington ,
are some very crude scrapers on exhibit which were found under a glacial
morain. This would appear to date man in Washington
to a time before the Pleistocene epoch, which scientists are reluctant to do. A
similar discovery was made near Sudbury ,
Ontario , Canada .
Crude choppers and scrapers of quartzite were found deep in the earth and had been
tumbled and mixed in glacial till. Again this is evidence that man lived there
before the glacial advance. Scientists do not want to put man in America that
long ago (Folsom, 1971, p.70; p.184). Such finds are no problem for
creationists who see no conflict for such finds within a biblical time
framework.
A strange account comes from the little village
of Plateau City , Colorado ,
a short distance east of Grand
Junction . A resident was digging a cellar in 1936. At
a depth of ten feet he found paved tile laid in some kind of mortar, different
from any other construction in the valley. While the tiles are dated anywhere
from 20,000 to 80,000 years old, they lie in a Miocene formation, which could
make it up to 25,000,000 years old by conventional dating (Edward, 1962,
p.100-101).
In 1871 near
Heizer notes a number of impossibilities according to commonly accepted geological dating: a hyena tooth sawed by a flint before it became fossilized, cutting operations on the fossilized bone of an extinct rhinoceros and on other animals at a site near Paris, and evidence of the use of a sharp tool on the horn of fossilized rhino remains in Ireland. Under the surface of the
Conventional theory has early hunters migrating from Asia to America .
One of the best known early projectile points is the Folsom point, and the
identical pattern is found both in China
and over much of America .
It is of particular interest that this point is dated as early as 10,000 B.C.
in America , but no earlier
than 2000 B.C. in China
(Mertz, 1972, p.99). Theory, however, requires the points in China to be older.
Conventional dating places the formation of many coal deposits at about
300,000,000 years ago. Other coal formation took place in Tertiary times. Man,
of course, according to evolutionary theory did not 'emerge' until several million
years ago. From time to time, some very odd things have been reported in coal.
Modern methods of coal mining make other similar finds unlikely today. The
following reports have stirred considerable question and debate:
In 1885 at a foundry belonging to Isidor Braun of Vocklabruck , Austria ,
a block of coal was broken up. Out of it fell a small iron or steel cube with a
deep incision around it and with the edges rounded on two faces. Some who
examined it concluded that only human hands could have made the object. The son
of the owner later took it to the Linz
Museum in Austria , but later it was lost. A
cast of the cube, however, is still kept by the museum.
The debate was never closed. One authority in 1886 held it to be an
iron meteorite. Unfortunately there is no longer a way to verify that the
object was actually encased in brown coal. Some hold that it is merely a cast
iron object which may have originated in the foundry where it was discovered
(Thomas, 1971, p.28-29).
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In 1912, some coal mined near Wilburton ,
Oklahoma , revealed a mystery
which has still not been solved. Two employees of the Municipal Electric Plant,
Thomas , Oklahoma ,
came upon a solid chunk of coal too large for the furnace. They broke it up
with a sledge. An iron pot fell from the center where it had left an impression
or mold in the piece of coal. An affidavit was made out by the two witnesses,
and the pot was photographed. Many persons examined this strange object.
After the exhibitor died, the pot was disposed of in some way and is
now lost.
The proceedings of a society of antiquities,Scotland , reported a similar
strange discovery. An iron instrument had been found in the heart of a piece of
coal from a mine in Scotland .
The instrument was considered to be modern, but there was no sign of boring in
the piece of coal.
The proceedings of a society of antiquities,
Some years ago Henry Morris reported that he had interviewed a coal miner in
In the collection of the
Other strange things have been reported found in rocks. For example, a nail was reported by David Brewster in a sandstone block from the Mesozoic Era. Another report indicates that it was discovered in Old Red Sandstone of Devonian age. In a report of the British Association, 1845-1851, it was stated that a nail was found in a block of stone from the Kingoodie Quarry,
Workmen quarrying rock near
A report was carried inScientific American that in June, 1851, workmen were blasting near
In the sixteenth century, Spanish conquistadors came across an iron nail about six inches long solidly encrusted in rock in a Peruvian mine. The rock was estimated to be tens of thousands of years old. Iron was unknown to the Indians there. The Spanish Viceroy kept the mysterious nail in his study as a souvenir, and the account of this find was recorded by letter in the
Many of these curious reports cannot be verified to our satisfaction today. The reports seem to this observer, however, to be too varied and widespread to be nothing but hoaxes. In this section again, we see many reasons to respect the sophistication of men who lived long ago. The concept of a young earth here too fits well with the kind of finds that have been made.
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