It is good to see
Graham Hancock championing the Pleistocene Nonconformity of 12900 years
ago. We started this particular stream
back in 2007 and watched as hard evidence steadily accumulated. We knew it was real then but needed direct
evidence and that is what has appeared.
Now we are picking up
establishments from before and after. It
needs to be noted that agriculture over time forms extended societies not
present at all in 10,000 BP. Antique
societies likely were coastal like the Haida societies of the Pacific
Northwest. Thus large structures were surely ceremonial and not central to an
urban scenario.
The best news is that
scientists are looking with an open mind and trusting their data. It is about time and I hope the plausible
45000 year window in Indonesia promotes plenty of digging.
Graham
Hancock
"A
professor is a policeman of the intellect..." Robert Shea and Robert Anton
Wilson, 'The Illuminatus! Trilogy'
The orthodox paradigm of prehistory, foisted upon us for so long by the policemen of the intellect who dominate mainstream archaeology and history, is unravelling at a fantastic rate. Not only do we now have evidence for a massive cometary bombardment of the earth in the window of 13,000 to 12,000 years ago -- a bombardment quite sufficient to have brought a cataclysmic end to a former global civilisation -- but also we have the testimony of megalithic time capsules left by the survivors, and perhaps intended as a record and a warning for some future civilisation (our own?) to decode. I have already spoken extensively here about the extraordinary 12,000-year old megalithic site of Gobekli Tepe in Turkey, which was deliberately buried 10,000 years ago and only rediscovered in the late 1990's. My wife Santha and I will be visiting Gobekli Tepe in September. Now comes news (thanks to Eric Bower and Richard Clarke for sending me the link to the following story that appeared today in the Sydney Morning Herald and the Melbourne Age) of a radical redating of Gunung Padang, an eerie megalithic site in West Java, Indonesia. The site was originally discovered in 1914, and has long been typecast by the mainstream as about 3500 years old -- a date that does not challenge the conventional paradigm. However, new research on the site by Dany Hilman, senior Geologist at Indonesia's Centre for Geotechnical Research, completely overturns this orthodox view. "It's older than 9000 years," says Hilman "and could be up to 20,000". Naturally the mainstream is already fighting back and seeking to discredit Hilman and his team, but we have been seeing these sort of tactics since my friends John Anthony West and geologist Robert Schoch first questioned the orthodox dating of the Great Sphinx of Giza back in 1992. Little by little the evidence that discredits the mainstream timeline is piling up -- first the Sphinx, then Gobekli Tepe, now Gunung Padang and all of this in context of a gigantic global cataclysm between 13,000 and 12,000 years ago that honest scientists can no longer seriously deny. The policemen of the intellect may not be able to maintain their stranglehold on the past for very much longer. Here is the Gunung Padang story in the Sydney Morning Herald:
And here's the same story in the Melbourne Age:
Here is a link to an earlier
relevant piece that I wrote on Facebook:
Digging
for the truth at controversial megalithic site
July
27, 2013
It's
been raining at Gunung Padang, and the grass on the mountain's precipitous
eastern slope is slick with water and mud.
But
geologist Danny Hilman, is undeterred. While others slip and fall around him,
he trudges expertly down this hill tucked away among the volcanoes 120
kilometres south of Jakarta to show off two big holes he's dug.
Since
Dutch colonists discovered it in 1914, Gunung Padang has been known (though not
widely) as the largest of a number of ancient megalithic sites in Indonesia.
Here
our prehistoric forebears, moved by the area's strikingly shaped columns of
volcanic rock, built terraces into the mountaintop and arranged and stacked the
stones for whatever indiscernible purpose motivated them.
And
Hilman thinks there is much more to it under the surface. If he's right - and
Indonesia's President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is enthusiastically encouraging
his investigations - then buried beneath the piles of ancient stone is by far
the oldest pyramid on the planet.
Hilman
says it could predate the next oldest by a dozen millenniums or more,
suggesting an advanced ancient civilisation in Java. ''It's older than 9000
[years] and could be up to 20,000,'' Hilman says, as he sits on a fallen column
of stone. ''It's crazy, but it's data.''
Hilman,
a senior geologist at Indonesia's Centre for Geotechnical Research, believes
that most of this 100 metre hill is actually man-made, built up on three stages
over the millenniums by three different cultures.
If
he is correct the find would rewrite prehistory in the same way as the
discovery of a mini-human ''hobbit'' on the eastern Indonesian island of Flores
rewrote paleoanthropology. The idea is being pushed by Hilman and a former
activist turned politician, and member of Yudhoyono's Democratic Party, Andy
Arif.
In
May, Hilman, who holds a PhD from the California Institute of Technology, was
summoned to brief Yudhoyono on his findings. The President was so impressed
that he appointed a government taskforce to investigate further, while Arif and
Hilman continued with their work. President Yudhoyono urged haste, describing
the team's work as a ''task of history … of important value for humanity''. He
even offered the services of the army's earth-moving equipment.
Proving
the authenticity of these ancient ruins among the banana palms and tea
plantations of Cianjur has taken on the aura of a nationalistic quest.
A
test being conducted on this day is one in a series of geo-electric surveys.
Men in gumboots arrange long loops of yellow cable on huge columnar rocks
denuded of their topsoil.
Hilman
stands on the muddy edge and points out what he says are patterns in the
arrangement of the rocks. These patterns reflect the geological testing already
undertaken, he says - that stones usually found upright have been laid
horizontally on beds of gravel. Some are stuck together by an ancient form of
glue, he says. These have been carbon dated indicating the sites are well in
excess of 9000 years old, he says.
Below
this are walls he describes as rooms, internal steps and terraces, all evidence
of a massive building, of human intelligence and planning.
''The
structure of the building is very good, it's been defined by many lines of the
geo-electric surveys, even 3D, even GPR [ground-penetrating radar] … and core
samples,'' Hilman says. ''We conclude that the archaeological site, the
arrangement of these columnar joints, has laminated the entire hill so it's 100
metres thick. We also think it's not just one layer of building, but multiple
layers.'' They may have discovered archaeological human structures or features
to a depth of at least 15 metres.
''It's
huge,'' Hilman says. ''People think the prehistoric age was primitive, but this
monument proves that wrong.''
But
these views are loudly disputed. A petition signed in April by 34 Indonesian
archaeologists and geologists and submitted to Yudhoyono agrees that the upper
part of Gunung Padang is ''the largest megalithic structure in south-east
Asia'', but the experts are deeply suspicious of the Arif team's methods and
motives, and the geological flag-waving it is trying to invoke.
The
petitioners do not like Arif's ''plans to involve common people as volunteers
to support the 'the Red and White Glory Operation in Gunung Padang' which they
call 'research'''. Red and white are the colours of the Indonesian flag. ''This
activity is carried out without scientific norms of conservation knowledge,''
the petitioners say. They believe the excavation threatens the preservation of
the existing site, and hint strongly that archaeologists, as opposed to
geologists, should be involved. One of them, vulcanologist Sutikno Bronto, says
Gunung Padang is simply the neck of a nearby volcano, not an ancient pyramid.
''Danny
Hilman is not a vulcanologist. I am,'' he says. As for the carbon-dated cement
between the stones, on which Hilman relies for his claims about the age of the
site, Sutikno believes it is simply the byproduct of a natural weathering
process, ''not man-made''.
Other
sceptics are even tougher. One archaeologist, who does not wish to be named
since the President took such an interest, says the presidential taskforce is
deluding itself.
''In
the Pawon cave in Padalarang [about 45 kilometres from Gunung Padang], we found
some human bones and tools made of bones about 9500 years ago, or about 7000
BCE. So, if at 7000 BCE our technology was only producing tools of bones, how
can people from 20,000 BCE obtain the technology to build a pyramid?'' the
archaeologist asks.
''In
archaeology we usually find the 'culture' first … Then, after we find out the
artefact's age we'll seek out historical references to any civilisation which
existed around that period. Only then will we be able to explain the artefact
historically. In this case, they 'found' something, carbon-dated it, then it
looks like they created a civilisation around the period to explain their
finding.''
If
the ancient civilisation of Gunung Padang is, indeed, a credulist's dream, it
would not be the first time the Indonesian President has been seduced by a
beautiful illusion. In 2008, a confidence man promised to power Indonesia with
''blue energy'' - fuel made only from water. Yudhoyono allocated $1.2 million
to the project and visited the centre three times before its proponent simply
disappeared, later turning up in hospital, his idea in tatters.
Hilman,
though, is undeterred. He is certain in his research, though he knows he still
has some convincing to do.
''It's
a strong case but not an easy case. We are up against the world's belief.''
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