It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
Nevertheless, eight drone flights over the complex to gather imagery have shown that the site encompasses at least 650 hectares (1,675 acres), of which 411 hectares are included in the topographical study. Among the key finds is that the Puma Punku area, one of the least-researched and most enigmatic portions of the complex because it includes extensive ruins and a terraced earthen mound faced with stone blocks, extends for at least 14 hectares.
Archaeologists have found that there is a large underground plaza and two platforms considered to be part of a pyramid, which Bolivian authorities want to excavate.
originally posted by: charlyv
In addition to what Slayer had said about the findings, the archeologist Brian Forester
had also recently done some video insisting that a great cataclysm caused all of the destruction in this area.
originally posted by: Hanslune
a reply to: punkinworks10
Howdy Punkinworks
I was just cruising by.........
Anything happening that has been of interest lately?
originally posted by: bigfatfurrytexan
originally posted by: Hanslune
a reply to: punkinworks10
Howdy Punkinworks
I was just cruising by.........
Anything happening that has been of interest lately?
Not related to this forum....that gets posted to this forum.
I think everyone is kinda caught up watching the world burn.
Much evidence exists for the major climate anomaly c. 22oo–
2ooo BC. In this paper, we demonstrate that precisely dated
Irish bog oaks record this climatic event, which appears to
begin abruptly in 22o6 BC and last until around 19oo BC.
However, it might be unwise to ignore the precisely dated,
abrupt environmental downturn that occurs some 15o years
earlier. Irish and English oak tree rings draw attention to a
notable decade-long growth downturn spanning 2354 BC to
2345 BC with hints of inundation. Interest in this apparently
localised inundation led to the discovery that traditions from
around the world preserve stories specifically dated to within
1o years of 235o BC. These stories involve the Chinese emperor
Yao (traditional reign date 2357 BC), who presided over a
series of catastrophes, including floods, in 2346 BC; Archbishop
Ussher, who used the dates 2349–2348 BC for the biblical
Flood; and the »birth« of three Mayan deities, GI, GII
and GIII, in the year 236o BC. Why, one might ask, should
people around the northern hemisphere have generated stories
that appear to hark back to a two-decade window between
236o BC and 234o BC. Furthermore, a smoothed growth
response for North European trees suggests the existence of a
37-year cycle of reduced growth, hinting that the events
around 235o BC and 22oo–2ooo BC may be related.
One possible scenario to account for these various observations is
that something happened in the sky around this time with
memorable consequences for those on the ground; a scenario
highly compatible with controversial evidence for an anomalous
dust deposition event observed at Tell Leilan in Syria.
Overall, this unusual accumulation of evidence, including
similarities in stories from widely separated areas, suggests
that the scenario should be treated seriously as a basis for
further research.
originally posted by: punkinworks10
a reply to: Hanslune
Hans,
you know the same old chronic astonishment at anything egyptian, peruvian, mayan, old, mound or pyramid like.
But there have been some neat things to come along, like the 4500 year old metal working and temple complex in the Cyclades, that was topped with a gleaming white step pyramid.
The earliest potato cultivation was in Utah 10kya, similarly the earliest use of tobaco was from utah and 12kya.
Some new work in ancient chinese human dna brings up some interesting conundrums
730kyo humans in my ancestral home lands of the northern phillipines, they had to get there by boat.
the site has produced debitage and the broken long bones of rhinos, and is widely accepted as a human site,
while then same set of circumstances(broken long bones of mammoth plus hammer and anvil stones) in california are ignored.
Ancient stone tools from a desert shelter in Utah have been found to contain traces of potato flour, the earliest known evidence of potato use in North America, archaeologists say.
The starchy traces were found on a pair of grinding stones from a cliff-side site in south-central Utah known as North Creek Shelter, which had been used intermittently from 11,500 to just 150 years ago.
The stones — including a flat grinding rock known as a metate and a handheld pestle-like tool called a mano — were found in a stratum of the shelter dated to between 10,100 to 10,900 years old, making the particles of potato starch found on them the oldest known on the continent.
The small, white-flowered S. jamesii plant is found in shady spots around the Southwest, particularly in New Mexico.,....
In south-central Utah, however, it’s mainly found near archaeological sites, including a patch that’s still growing some 150 meters (about 500 feet) from North Creek Shelter.
By contrast, the next-closest population of S. jamesii is found 150 kilometers away (about 93 miles), near the spectacular rock art panel known as Newspaper Rock.
Researchers found 75% of a fossilized rhino skeleton—ribs and leg bones still scarred from the tools that removed their meat and marrow—lying in ancient mud that had long since buried an even older river channel. To determine the site’s age, researchers dated the enamel in one of the rhino’s teeth, as well as quartz grains embedded in the sediment layers above and below the bones, using electron spin resonance (ESR), which measures the buildup of electrons as a material is exposed to radiation over time. The team dated the bottom sediment layer to about 727,000 years old, the rhino tooth to about 709,000 years old, and the top sediment layer to about 701,000 years old. Several independent experts say they were impressed by the team’s careful use of the technique. “They’ve nailed it,” says Alistair Pike, an archaeological dating expert at the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom.
Ancient humans appear to have reached northwestern China about 2.1 million years ago, and they lived there for hundreds of thousands of years, according to a new study published Wednesday in Nature. It suggests that hominins migrated out of Africa much earlier, and spread much farther east, than once thought.
originally posted by: charlyv
Probably destroyed in the same timeframe, the city of Tanus on the Nile delta.
Huge megalithic granite structures shattered and destroyed with a strong evidence of high heat. All buried under a soil that is sterile. Vegetation all around this city, but nothing grows.
Brian Foerster did a great video: Tanus
Tanis was found largely as it was abandoned, so the city is home to many archaeological treasures in addition to the tombs. Temples, including a Temple of Amun and a Temple of Horus, have been found. Even urban districts of the ancient city remain, and the site continues to host archaeological expeditions in search of more finds.
originally posted by: Harte
originally posted by: charlyv
Probably destroyed in the same timeframe, the city of Tanus on the Nile delta.
Huge megalithic granite structures shattered and destroyed with a strong evidence of high heat. All buried under a soil that is sterile. Vegetation all around this city, but nothing grows.
Brian Foerster did a great video: Tanus
Hardly.
Tanis was in the Nile delta. The delta shifted and Tanis became silted over.
Tanis was found largely as it was abandoned, so the city is home to many archaeological treasures in addition to the tombs. Temples, including a Temple of Amun and a Temple of Horus, have been found. Even urban districts of the ancient city remain, and the site continues to host archaeological expeditions in search of more finds.
NatGeo
Foerster is a liar, and certainly no video he makes is worth trusting.
Harte
originally posted by: [post=23594049]
Brian Foerster did a great video: Tanus
originally posted by: [post=23595947]
You armchair talking heads that would say that Graham Hancock, Bryan Foerster and Robert Schoch are liars
They are field researchers, been there countless times, doing the groundwork, talking to the locals and arguing with the headstrong archeologists.
This is not saying that all archeologists and geologic scientists are wrong,
originally posted by: charlyv
You armchair talking heads that would say that Graham Hancock, Bryan Foerster and Robert Schoch are liars, really need a #ing enema.
originally posted by: charlyv They are field researchers, been there countless times, doing the groundwork, talking to the locals and arguing with the headstrong archeologists.
originally posted by: charlyvThey have provided the controversy that you "stick in the mud" academics are going to fail on because they are doing while you are just writing. The world is changing quickly because we are done with academic substantiations that DO NOT hold up with what is being discovered today.
originally posted by: charlyvThis is not saying that all archeologists and geologic scientists are wrong, it is saying that those in those fields that have taken the legacy of their work and made a sort of religion around it, have lost the scientific method and now "BELIEVE" they are correct. History will show this as futile behavior and generally bad for the person, as well as the science.