Update on Underwater Megalithic

EarthFiles ^ | 11.19.01 | Linda Moulton Howe

[blam]

Olmec Statues

There are eight of these giant head statues. We have all seen the pictures of these statues. The caucasian 'head' is never shown in any of the photographs.(I wonder why?) Source:"They came before Columbus,"Ivan Van Sertoma, 1976.

[spycatcher]

Discovery of the Oldest City in the Americas

[okie01]

Thanks for the ping. Link sent to okie02, who will be especially excited about it. So, I'll thank you for her, too.

Fascinating stuff.

[Paulus Invictus]

No, we need something more. Perhaps aluminum foil boats as well?

[blam]

Thanks, good article. The largest and oldest pyramid in the world is in South America. It is a stepped pyramid as are the early Egyptian pyramids. I think they are linked and the links seem to be slowly coming together. I mean, we have skeletons of 11.5k year old African skeletons in SA, Egypt is in Africa, what is so hard to figure out about that? There are engravings of caucasians in Phoenician garb there in SA. Why do all the 'experts' keep ignoring this?

[blam]

(How about some copper clad boats?)

A Short History of Copper Mining (Michigan)

Copper was first mined in this area by an ancient vanished race between 5,000 and 1,200 bc. These miners left no burial grounds, dwellings, pottery, clay tablets or cave drawings. What was left behind was thousands of copper producing pits and more thousands of crude hammering stones with which the pits had been worked. The ancients apparently worked the copper bearing rock by alternately using fire and cold water, to break the copper ore into smaller pieces from which they could extract the metal with hand held hammering stones or stone hatchets. With this copper, they made tools.

Scientists and engineers estimate that it would have required 10,000 men 1,000 years to develop the extensive operations carried on throughout the region. It is estimated that 1.5 billion pounds of copper were mined by these unknown people.

The pure copper of Lake Superior has been discovered in prehistoric cultures throughout North and South America.

The mystery of their origin remains unsolved. The mystery of their disappearance remains unsolved.

Many hammered copper knives, arrow and spear heads and axes were recovered at ancient mining sites. Some fine examples are on display at Fort Wilkins.

[blam]

Bump.

[mad_as_he$$]

Atlantis was in the Med north of present day Greece. I know because I saw it on the Discovery Channel. They must have been there.

[sawsalimb]

Amazing.(and if this checks out,"amazing" isn't nearly strong enough) Bookmarking for (very)thorough later reading-what I skimmed just now is incredible stuff. We seem to be living in interesting times,and I suspect that more than one paid,professional archaeologist is going to wind up scraping egg off his face over this.(I wanna see them try to come up with an explanation for this that doesn't defy all common sense and credibility-I'd bet that a few already have that "deer in the headlights" look.)

[Rebelbase]

Why was the interviewer shouting all his questions?

[spycatcher]

Interesting. I hope Castro doesn't clamp down on the scientists for whatever political reasons he may have

[spycatcher]

Interesting. I hope Castro doesn't clamp down on the scientists for whatever political reasons he may have

[spycatcher]

Yeah, they were underwater so the interviewer in the boat had to shout everything!

[blam]

"Atlantis was in the Med north of present day Greece. I know because I saw it on the Discovery Channel. They must have been there."

I've seen that about three times. You're talking about Thera/Santorini/Akatori. South America/Caribbean is now the 'in' spot for Atlantis. lol

[crystalk]

Again, "Olmec heads in South America." !

I believe this is about 7th time I have had to state, that Olmecs including their heads are found only in Mexico, especially at just one site called La Venta. This is near Veracruz, and Olmecs are sometimes stated to have occupied the Gulf Coast lowlands around the area from Veracruz to Villahermosa. At the very widest.

[crystalk]

There is something very interesting and manmade on the shallow seafloor near Bimini. That sea levels might not have changed much in the last 2200 years or so, would have nothing to do with Atlantis in any event, for that sinking was more than 10,000 years ago,

--in fact, the last subsidence of same is usually dated to the era from some 11500 to 10500 years ago...this is similar to the end of the Ice Age, in conventional chronology...

[blam]

Check out this site: http://www.geocities.com/webatlantis/

[crystalk]

Perhaps something sank in the Med near Greece, but it was not Atlantis. By definition, Atlantis was in the Atlantic. Check Plato.

Whatever may have sunk in all the other locations worldwide, that have been proposed, may be very interesting human legends and parallels to Atlantis, but the only location that IS Atlantis, must be in the Atlantic. Elementary, my dear Watson.

[blam]

"I believe this is about 7th time I have had to state, that Olmecs including their heads are found only in Mexico, especially at just one site called La Venta. This is near Veracruz, and Olmecs are sometimes stated to have occupied the Gulf Coast lowlands around the area from Veracruz to Villahermosa. At the very widest."

I'm guilty, you're correct. (again) I can't seem to get the thought that they are in Brazil out of my head.

[blam]

"in fact, the last subsidence of same is usually dated to the era from some 11500 to 10500 years ago...this is similar to the end of the Ice Age, in conventional chronology..."

Yes, I've considered this for some time now. I'm intrigued by their assumed date and possible asteroid impact around the 1200BC date. The worldwide tree ring data shows a terrible incident in 1159BC and dendrochronoligist Mike Baillie (and others) had already proposed an asteroid or comet impact as a possible culprit.