Posted on 04/03/2011 10:10:25 PM PDT by djf
Sure... though not terribly well... I assume, considering our conversation, that you are probably referring to statues which have decidedly African and Asiatic features... And some with Caucasian features as well. At least in my mind, that is the most remarkable subject matter, when discussing Olmecs and migration...
IMHO, such excavations might occur over decades to centuries with natural processes such as those which form Seifs in the desert.
They aren’t used today, because we can use heavy equipment to develop the terrain so much more quickly, without much intellectual design into the method of work.
For later reading. Thanks
I find the Egyptian/Olmec connections most intriguing.
Here's how to get a wider-scale image:
Go to Google Maps, and type "-16.4368,-68.58068" (the latitude and longitude corresponding to your picture) into the Search box.
Ahhh. S. American pyramids/ziggurats, Egyptian style headdresses, Egyptian mummies with traces of cocaine in their systems... Yes, the links are tantalizing.
But then I am of the opinion that the world was well traveled in ancient times, even on the periphery of recorded history - A study of Phoenician trade routes, to include ooparts of their design is an eye-opening experience. The same with ancient Chinese. And what goes unsaid is the likelihood that any ocean-going trade almost demands the existence of reciprocal systems (other ocean-going trade)... And that every far colony seeds the area it is in with the knowledge needed to produce and operate ocean-going vessels of their own (supposing for a moment that port-side folks are so stupid as to live alongside the great bounty of the ocean and remain incapable of exploiting that bounty...). What passes for science in this area is incredibly naive, IMHO.
Archeologists are a lot like politicians. When they're wrong they are woefully slow to admit it. For instance, "Early Mesoamericans came across a land bridge", or "the Great Pyramid was built by Cheops". Mainstream Archeology is almost as bad as mainstream media - almost. They hang on to things that are shown with data to be patently false.
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I know several other archaeologists working in these regions in SA right now that that are working on sites even bigger than this site. Wait until you see the things that they’ve found that haven’t been published yet. You won’t believe what’s coming out in the next few years...trust me...
A selection of satellite images, some of them of almost art-like quality, which show the extent of canalisation and abandoned cultivations on the Bolivian Altiplano around ORURO.
http://www.atlantisbolivia.org/canalsgallery.htm
Earthmovers of the Amazon
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~cerickso/baures/Mann2.html
What you see at Puma-Punku is the hardest kinds of stone carved totally straight and flat as if by plasma or laser cutting tools; that seemingly would imply a space-faring civilization.
I forgot they mentioned Hapgood in "2012."
Are those photos from tihuanaco?
I would bet if you traveled back in time to watch how those objects were carved you say to yourself, “That makes total sense but I can’t believe how much senseless labor it took to do it.”
Pumapunku in Bolivia. Again you're talking about cutting perfectly straight grooves and flat surfaces into diorite, which nobody could so with stone or even iron implements.
May not have been above the Snow line back then.
That's true, but they say the modern snow line is around 5000 meters - does much grow at that altitude or higher?
Are suggesting the ancients had modern day technology or were helped by visitors from another planet?
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