This particular site is now outrunning the faux controversy tossed up by the archeological community and that is good. A number of sites exist worldwide that all conform to this scenario and prospective early dates. We already understand that the Bronze Age was globally stitched together by the sea based copper trade for at least one and one half thousand years.
My only question regarding sunken Indonesia or Mu was where were the pyramids. Here we have them and they confirm that the pyramid culture also has a long prehistory and that a global sense of a united culture goes far back in time. I expect to see this confirmed in Bosnia as well.
This center was close to the center of the pre Pleistocene Nonconformity civilization within the tropical belt and built out mostly on the continental shelf and hugely po[populous as well.
Stop Press - Latest News From The Excavations At Gunung Padang, The Mysterious Ancient Pyramid In Indonesia That Is Rewriting History
By Graham Hancock
2 October 2014
By Graham Hancock
2 October 2014
http://www.grahamhancock.com/forum/HancockG10-Gunung-Padang-Latest.php
The
archaeological establishment is scrambling to find some reason to
reject and pour scorn on the extraordinary consequences of the
excavations now taking place at Gunung Padang in Indonesia.
Since
its first exploration by archaeologists in 1914 the site was thought
to be a natural hill with 2500 year-old megalithic structures on top
of it. But in 2010 geologist Dr Danny Hilman Natawidjaja (who earned
his doctorate at Cal Tech) recognized this “hill” as a
possible man-made pyramid and began to explore it using ground
penetrating radar, seismic tomography, resistivity survey and other
remote sensing techniques, as well as some direct excavations and
deep core drilling.
The
results were immediately intriguing (see this article I wrote in
January for background:
http://www.grahamhancock.com/forum/HancockG9-Mystery-Lost-Civilization.php)
producing
evidence of deeply buried man-made chambers and yielding carbon dates
going back as far as 26,000 years. This was the last Ice Age when our
ancestors are supposed (according to the orthodox archaeological
model) to be have been nothing more than primitive hunter gatherers
incapable of large-scale construction and engineering feats. Was it
possible that geologist Natawidjaja was unearthing the proof of a
lost advanced civilization of prehistoric antiquity? Such ideas are
heresy to mainstream archaeologists and sure enough the
archaeological establishment in Indonesia banded together against Dr
Natawidjaja and his team, lobbied the political authorities, agitated
locally and succeeded in slowing down, though not completely
stopping, the further exploration of Gunung Padang.
Dr
Natawidjaja fought back, doing some high-level lobbying of his own,
taking the matter to the President of Indonesia himself. There were
further delays to do with elections in Indonesia but just a couple of
months ago, in mid-August 2014, the final obstacles were lifted and
Dr Natawidjaja and his team moved back onto the Gunung Padang site
with full approval to go ahead with their work, including permission
to excavate the concealed chambers.
Archaeologists
were furious and immediately began lobbying to get the work stopped –
fortunately to no avail as preliminary excavations have produced
results that prove beyond doubt that Gunung Padang in indeed a
man-made pyramid of great antiquity as Dr Natawidjaja had long ago
proposed. Even the relatively young layer so far excavated (the
second artificial columnar rock-layer beneath the megalithic site
visible on the surface) has yielded dates of 5200 BC (nearly 3000
years older than the orthodox dating for the Pyramids of Giza in
Egypt) and there are firm indications from the original remote
sensing and core drilling work of much older layers below. In short,
it is now evident to all that the site is vastly older than the 2500
years that archaeologists had insisted upon for decades. Even the
most hostile amongst them are therefore now reframing their
assessment of the site and referring to it as “a
gigantic terraced tomb, which was part of the biggest megalithic
culture in the archipelago.”
For
a flavor of the sour grapes the archaeological establishment feel
towards Dr Natawidjaja and his team see this recent article from the
Jakarta Post: http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2014/09/24/archaeologists-slam-excavation-gunung-padang-site.html
I
asked Dr Natawidjaja for his response to the Jakarta Post article and
he replied as follows:
“The
article has got the story all wrong. All excavations were
supervised by archeologists from Agency for Conservation and
Management of Archaeological Sites (BPCB) and University of
Indonesia. The excavation sites have also recently
been inspected by the Director for Conservation of Archeological
Sites (who is the boss of Miss Desril Shanti ), by the head of the
BPCB, and by the Minister of Education and Culture himself.
Afterward, they gave a press conference confirming that all
excavations are good and proper. For information, the head of
the National Archeological Center, which is the main office above
local Archeological Centers including Bandung Archeological Center,
is also a member of the National Team for Gunung Padang.
The Jakarta Post article is also
wrong about the funding. The Minister of Education and Culture
did indeed announce in the press conference that he would allocate
about Rp 3 billion for the research but it has not begun to be
disbursed yet. So far, I and my team are still working
willingly on our own funding with the help of the soldiers (TNI) who
have been working alongside us. Of course the TNI have their
own funding – but not from that Endowment Fund.”
As
to the progress of the work at Gunung Padang, Dr Natawidjaja writes
as follows:
“The
research progress has been being great. We have excavated three
more spots right on top of the megalithic site in the past couple
weeks, which give more evidence and details about the buried
structures. We have uncovered lots more stone artifacts from
the excavations. The existence of the pyramid-like structure
beneath the megalithic site is now loud and clear; even for
non-specialists, it is not too difficult to understand if they
come and see for themselves. We have found some
kind of open hall buried by soil 5-7 meters thick; however we have
not yet got into the main chamber. We are now drilling to the
suspected location of the chamber (based on subsurface geophysic) in
the middle of the megalithic site.”
Stay
tuned for more news from the front line!
1 comment:
This represents an egregious example of the dishonesty of the scientific community. Just as with regard to global change--indeed, as with regard to evolution--scientists stubbornly resist both historically and current heterological evidence, vocifically and with extreme prejudice. The claims of carbon(and other)-dating should and will be challenged.
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