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Kanook Tlingit NationSept 2010

To you non-historians of the modern age, when someone mentions ancient societys they are

not talking about the 1960s or thereabouts, theyre speaking to 15,000 to 32,000 BCE and

beyond, in fact a little more than 24-hours-ago, lift up your jaws, there was life on this planet

before you were born!

The study of life on this planet, 3 rd from the Sun in case youre wondering, is as diverse and

confusing as life itself, plugged full of theories and guesses as any subject you can study, other

than the relationship between conservatives and liberals. Which according to these wise guys

the Earths journey through the cosmos would be nothing short of haphazard if not for them, the

scary part is they really believe this ego enhancing bull-puckie, as they dance and prance behind

their heaven sent pulpits and campaign platforms.

Most of our society today bases our history on what has been written, whereas for instance the

history of Alaska got its official beginning when Aleksei Ilyich Chirikov stepped ashore in

Southeast Alaska on July 15th, 1741 and for the continental United States when William Bradford

and hisSeparatist and non-Separatists disembarked from the Mayflowerat Plymouth Rock on

November 9th, 1620.

Unfortunately the indigenous populations of the Americas were treated as having settled the

land about 5-minutes before the Europeans discovered the new land. The chaps from the

continent of Europe planted their flags on the beaches of American and ran roughshod over its

inhabitants. Whereas the Europeans greatest advantage being the indigenous population was not

immune to the filth and disease their European cousins inherited along with their methods of

trading, rape, pillage, and deceit along with passing off a few bottles of fermented grape. This is

not a piece on the conquest of the Americas, albeit not a pretty picture, it still is our history.

Likewise in what is known as the cradle of civilization we have no written records before the

23rd Century BC in Sumer, whereas modern scholars were able to decipher a syllabary form of

writing thus permitting archaeologists to read some records and their inscriptions.

History before writing became the norm consists of oral traditions that have transmitted to us in

the modern day as legends and myths, all spun around the campfires with people sitting

talking and listening under a star-filled sky. We have read text that was supposedly constructed


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within concrete parameters by leaders of the religious persuasion that tell us God created the

world a little over 4,000 years ago dont chuckle too loud there are still a number of our kind

walking around on this Blue Marble that firmly believe in this.

When someone tells you that ancient civilizations have been found dating back some 200,000

years plus, you might pass it off as a Science Fiction tale created by some wild and wooly person

who is smoking some good stuff writing a good script for Hollywood. Get a grip!

About 150-miles inland in South Africa a city-state (metropolis) has been discovered that

conservative estimates encompasses some 1,500 square miles, and this city-state in part of an

even larger community that is about 10,000 square miles. Modern dating techniques have placed

it age between 160,000 to 200,000 BCE.

You might ask yourself why this particular location, well as it turns out the predominant reason

is that the region was and is loaded with gold. Whereas over the past 500+ years thousands of

ancient gold mines have been discovered, now modern scholars are linking this precious medal to

the establishment and demise of a vanished civilization, that worked the area digging and

processing billions of tons of gold. Estimates speculate that is truly the oldest civilization on our

Blue Marble. Scholars are only guessing when they say that gold played a role in the dense

population in the area, they consider that although the site is 150-miles plus from an excellent

port, suggesting the there was a maritime trade that would have helped support a large population.


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But then again, this was some 200,000 years ago. Most of the ruins have been buried in the

sand, and even today that are only really definable from an aircraft or from a satellite, whereas

they have been exposed when the changing climate has blown the sand around, showing the walls

and foundations.

It has taken a number of years for these remote circles to be recognized as more than just

some random stone circles constructed for the enjoyment of a few bushman and some herders,

albeit they were believed to have been constructed by some indigenous culture, no one bothered

to investigate the aspect of an established civilization.

Im not sure about you, but my historical education has taught me that the most powerful

civilizations all emerged in Sumeria and Egypt, with a few other scattered places. Couple with

this information, if you dig it out, with what I learned that until the Bantu people migrated

from the northern regions of Africa during the 13 th Century this part of the world consisted of a

few hunter gatherers or the Bushmen and that they did little to contribute anything to our

advancement of technology or civilizations. Were we wrong or what?

Over the past 20-years scholars

have determined that these stone

structures are not simply corrals or

holding pens for wild animals.

They are now convinced that they

are the ancient remains of temples

and astronomical structures of a

lost ancient civilization, pushing

back the clock of time and firmly

establishing the fact that

somebody wandering about in

South Africa knew or understood

just a bit more than we figured they did.


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The circular ruins are spread over a huge area, which as I mentioned can only be appreciated

from above whereas over time and in todays present climate being uncovered show some

original walls as high as five-feet and over three-feet wide.

When you study the ruins the first thought that comes to mind is the planning of the large

community, a community when associated with the numerous gold mines in the region gives

creditability to their existence in addition the roads, some extending a hundred miles, and their

terraced agriculture reminds one of the Inca settlements in Peru.

The natural assumption is that the circles cannot be over 200,000 years old, and since rocks

cannot be carbon-14 dated, how did our scientists arrive at the 200,000 year old date?

As a great many discoveries in science Johan Heine stumbled onto Adams Calendar in 2003,

when he was on his way to assist one of his pilots who had smacked his plane on the edge of a

cliff. Next to the crash site he discovered a very strange non-natural arrangement of stones

sticking out of the earth. In his study of the monoliths he slowly realized that they were aligned

to the cardinal points of the Earth (North, South, East and West), and that there were at least three

monoliths aligned towards the sunrise, but that on the west side of the aligned monoliths there

was a mysterious hole in the ground, he later figured out that something was missing.After weeks and months of measuring and noted observations, he concluded that the monoliths

predicted the perfectly aligned rise and fall of the Sun. He was able to determine the solstices and

the equinoxes but his mysterious hole still remained unfilled and an enigma.


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Christo, a local chap, told Johan that the missing stone was strange shaped stone that had been

removed from the spot 20+ years ago and taken and placed somewhere near the entrance to the

nature reserve.

After an extensive search, Johan finally found the anthropomorphic (humanoid shape) stone,

intact with a plaque fastened to it and displayed to commemorate the opening of the Blue

Swallow Reserve in 1994, like a rookie cop at a crime scene the stone he figured it had been

removed, unknowingly from one of the most important ancient sites known to man today.

The first calculations of the age of the calendar were made based on the rise of Orion, a

constellation known for its three bright stars forming the belt of the mythical hunter.


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Successful graduates of 8th grade know that the Earth wobbles on its axis, this wobble causing

the stars and constellations to change their angle of presentation in our night sky, positions that

change on a cyclical basis. 8th graders call this action precession, whereas the precession cycle

is complete about every 26,000 years.

By determining when all three-stars of Orions belt were position flat or horizontal with respect

to the horizon, the scholars calculated they could estimate the time when the three stones in the

calendar were in alignment with these three bright-stars. There first rough set of numbers said

the site was at least 25,000 years ago since that time with new and more precise equipment

measurements have been made suggested an age of at least 75,000 years, and the most recent

and highly accurate calculations completed in June-2008, puts the sites age to at least 160,000

years, these measurement taking into account the actual erosion of the dolerite stones at the site.

And you believed that Stonehenge was old at 8000 BCE ?

Gold mining 160,000 years ago Id ask you to close your eyes, but it would make it a bit

difficult to read this but imagine a guy or girl getting up at the crack of dawn, picking up their

tools and going to work in some pit in the ground. As they walked to work, busses hadnt been

invented yet, stepping around kids playing stickball on the sidewalks and mothers sitting on their

haunches mixing some strange delicacy together to feed her family. Animal skins hanging on the

clothes line, with mongrel dogs yapping at their feet as they made their way towards another day

at the mine.

There have been a number of ancient abandoned mines dated in southern Africa, whereas the

Anglo-American Corporation in the 1970s let a contract for a group of archaeologists to look

for some ancient mines. They published in Optima one report detailing a discovery in

Swaziland and a couple of other locations that showed extensive mining with shafts up to fifty-

feet in depth. Stone objects and charcoal remains established dates of 35,000 46,000 and

60,000 BC confirming their synopsis that mining in southern Africa was present, during much

of the period subsequent to 100,000 BC. A team of International Physicists in September 1998

verified human remains in Swaziland and Zululand dated 80,000 to 115,000 years BC.

One particular Zulu legend in southern Zimbabwe tells of the ancient gold mine at Mototapa

that employed artificially produced flesh and blood slaves created by the 1st

People, theslaves are said to have gone into battle with the Ape-Man, this happening when the great war

star appeared in the sky. Fact or some ancient pipe dream?

Gold as a mineral in ancient times, according to our way, would be practically useless, where

you cant eat it, it is too soft for making tools, and is not useful for anything except ornaments


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and its physical beauty that is on par with copper and silver. So why was it so important to the

planets earlyHomo sapiens?

Homo sapiens trace our ancestry back through time to a point where we evolved from other

primitive hominids, so its said, albeit our scientists do not understand why this new type of

two-legged, walking upright mammal suddenly appeared, of how the change happened

nevertheless some learned scholars say they have traced our genes (levis) back to a single

female they label our Mitochondrial Eve. Whereas she is the one

female individual human who is the female counterpart of our Y-

chromosomal Adam. Although they seemed to have lived in

different timedont ask me how this worked out, as Im clueless.

She is believed to have lived between 150,000 to 250,000 years

BP, most likely in East Africa around Tanzania and other regions to

the south and west. Again our learned scholars speculate that she

lived in a population of between perhaps 4000 to 5000 females

capable of producing children at any given time. As our scientists have found no other offspring

with strong evolutionary changes to their DNA, or at least to this date, it would appear that the

human race today are all descendants of this one-human-female.

She pre-dates the out-of-Africa migration which took place some 60,000 to 95,000 years ago,

albeit her fossil remains are roughly similar with the fossils found in Ethiopia near the Omo River

and at Hertho. In other words, ourMitochondrial Eve is old!

We have been taught (some of us) that the Sumerian civilization is the oldest common

historical civilization hanging around on the book shelves in our great institutions of learning,

along with the Egyptians with their Pharaohs and numerous pyramids, where their dynasties

stretch back some 3200 years BP.


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The ancient Sumerian seal shows the legend of the Great Flood, which is noted as consuming

all of mankind, as the noted accounting in the book of Genesis like Genesis the Sumerian

accounting Atrahasis tells a story depicting the creation of modern humans, not by a loving

God as Genesis maintains, but by a super-race of extra-terrestrials who were in need of semi-

intelligent slaves to assist them in mining gold. I wont go there, even for my technical

background and sometimes rampant curiosity I find the legend of the planet Nibiru a little hard

to swallow but the question remains how come Homo sapiens suddenly appeared? That is if

you consider a couple of thousand over time as suddenly!

Unless youre really an uninterestedHomo sapien, by now even with this weird explanation on

the creation of us, we still havent explained why anyone would need many, many kilograms of

Gold some 150,000 plus years ago. Remember King Solomon had a big thing for it collecting

approximately 43 tons of it each year at todays spot price were talking $1.7 billion big ones

every year, it could be that the ancient sites in southern Africa were the mysterious site of Ophir

noted in the Old Testament? Even so 43 tons is more than enough to keep the lights burning all

night in his temple, so it can be said that for some reason back some 150,000 plus years ago

someone had a major hunger for Gold!

Needless to say, the discovery of a civilization in southern Africa dating back some 200,000

years is mind-boggling, especially to the establishment who have hung their hat on the belief that

we wandered out of some caves after the last Ice Age. Stating that mainstream historians are

having a difficult time with the information is a known fact sort of like the United States

population accepting the fact that a half-breed is running the country, albeit as time goes by, more

and more believe he and his gang are doing a piss-poor job.

Compare the 200,000 year old site to the relatively new site at Chaco Canyon a shallow, ten-

mile canyon situated in the NW corner of New Mexico, and by todays standards somewhat

isolated accessible only by washboard dirt roads.

Scholars tell us it was carved from

ancient sea beds by centuries of erosion,

where millions of years of history reveal

themselves in layer after layer of rock,giving up from time-to-time fossils from

the planets distant past.

At 6,200 feet above sea-level it is a

high-desert canyon, sun-scorched in the

summer and bitterly cold in the winter.


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Regardless ample evidence has been found that at one time it was a thriving community around

2900 BC, albeit at that time scholars believe they were mostly a nomadic like band that is until

around 200 AD when farmers, the life givers of the planet, settled in the area and built small pit

houses.

Around 850 AD, the population

changed they began to build

massive stone building unlike any

that had been built before in their

neck-of-the-woods. Structures

that reached for the sky, four or

five stories high that had up to

700 rooms and dozens of kivas.

Each building within line-of-sight

of the other, communications dont you know! They were aligned referencing celestial lines;

they employed water collection systems and

were connected to outlying sites with an

extensive network of roads in other words an

elaborate sophisticated and highly organized

culture, with Chaco Canyon at its center.

For 300 years construction moved

forward and the community grew, then in 1150

AD the region was abandoned, for reasons

even until today we know not why, speculating

that a prolonged drought might have been the reason,

Some also speculate that the Chaco Canyon population moved onto two other areas, such as

Mesa Verde and Chuska Mountains, who around 1150 AD were growing.

300 years, when you see numbers like this on a piece of paper and measure it against other

ancient civilizations, even the 500-year-old Roman Empire, it might not appear as very important

value except when you stop and consider our country has existed as a major civilization for lessthan 240 years. Many Native American tribes in the US Southwest today trace their ancestors

back to Chaco Canyon, Mesa Verde, and the Chuska Mountains. But I get ahead of myself!

First found and ignored by anthropologists from the University of Chicago and Istanbul

University in the 1960s, is a site in southeastern Turkey near Urfa that pre-dates Stonehenge by

some 6,000 years. Gobekli Tepe again turns our view of civilization a bit on its side.


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At Gobekli Tepe are found

some very massive stones carved over

11,000 years ago, in other words close

to 8,000 years before the legendary

Abraham left the same region on his

way south to conquer the savage

Canaanites, or so the Religions of the

Middle East would have us believe.

Klaus Schmidt, a German

archaeologist has been poking around

Gobekli Tepe for over a decade, and is

convinced he has found the worlds oldest temple. On a top of one hill, he and his workers have

uncovered standing stones, or pillars arranged in circles. Also on the hillside he found four other

rings of partially excavated pillars, each one having at its center two large stone T-shaped pillars

encircled by slightly smaller stones facing inward. The tallest pillars stand

16 feet high and weight between 7 and 10 tons. Some are blank, while

others have elaborately carved foxes, lions, scorpions and vultures

numerously scattered across the pillars. The rings themselves, some 65

feet across definitely have a pattern to their construction, giving him the

impression that this a human-built holy place. Why our scholars figure it

for a holy-place is beyond me, it could have been a popular place to hang

out and partake in a popular drink made from fermented barley, which was

growing wild all over the place. From the peak of the hill some 1,000 feet above the valley floor,

one can see the horizon in nearly every direction, and they ask themselves what the landscape

must have looked like over 11,000 years ago. A time after the edge of the Ice began its slow

march back towards the north-land, and after centuries of intensive farming and settlement that

has turned the land into the sparse featureless brown expanse that fills your vision today.

It is not hard to visualize the people of the ancient land gazing their herds of gazelle and

mixtures of wild animals, the grass lands crisscrossed with gently flowing rivers, ponds and lakesstuffed with migrating geese and ducks, trees loaded with fruit their branches touching the ground

and acres of nut trees, under which is found rippling fields of wild barley and wild wheat such as

emmer and einkorn. The land was a paradise, whereas it sits on the northern edge of the Fertile

Crescent an arc of mild climate and arable land from the Persian Gulf to present-day Lebanon,

Israel, Jordon and Egypt a paradise that attracted hunter-gatherers from Africa, Iran and the


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square miles shrinks in comparison to the city in southern Africa at 1,500 square miles. Talk

about urban sprawl!

We can only guess at makeup of these early ancestors of humankind, just as we can only

speculate on the functioning of their types of government we are pretty certain their primary job

was to supply their buyers, whoever they were, with tons of gold for what purpose we again can

only guess. What we are firm in believing that they did exist, what is beyond most of our beliefs

is that they existed over 200,000 years ago.

Approximately 5,160 years ago a civilization that most of us have been taught is the oldest

technically able society on our planet consolidated the northern and southern sections of the Nile

River and the Egypt of old marched into the future. At the time the Upper and Lower Egypt

came under their first recognized Pharaoh and born were a series of Kingdoms, separated by

periods of relative instability known as Intermediate Periods. Around 1600 years after its birth

Egypt reached its peak and began a slow but steady decline, with the rule of the Pharaohs finally

drawing to a close when it fell to the Roman Empire 5,130 years after being established.

Compare this time line that is almost 22 times the present lifespan of the United States of

America.

There is little doubt in anyones mind that Egypt for over at least 4500 years was one of the

greatest civilizations whereas if not a long lasting one ever to grace the planets surface. Its

success to survive the inevitable changes around it was its hallmark, that and to adjust to the

conditions of the changing Nile River Valley where they mastered the prediction of its flooding,

store-housing crops (long before the Jews up north had Joseph go down and show them a thing or

two, but then again this is religious malarkey noted to raise the importance of Abrahams gang in

the Middle East or as we know it advanced PR) and their leadership necessary to control the

immigration of many different cultures that their success had to defend against from time-to-time.

These masters of their surrounding land lasted for centuries, motivating and organizing all the

activities within their domain, building stone structures that survive today, three of which plus

one large animal like member that defies dating we only speculate, whereas some date them

back to over 10,000 years while others only a few thousand.

They held dear to themselves religious beliefs that an upstart set of religions born a few milesnorth of their land, points to and ridicules with venomous words condemning the civilization of

the Nile Valley to the pits of Hell with glee by the way, and yet in their rush to condemn they

are but a flea on the back of an elephants back when it comes to scratching the surface of what the

civilization of the Nile Valley knew and understood.


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It would be century upon century that the achievements of this northern civilization would even

began to duplicate what the ancient Egyptians were able to do, this including quarrying,

surveying and construction techniques that mystify the builders of today. The Egyptians threw up

pyramids, temples, obelisks and dug deep into rock

hillsides to hide their important leaders from the thieves

who robbed their graves in search of riches beyond

imagination. The had a system of mathematics that

confused the dimwits who surrounded their river valley,

they practiced and implemented a regime of medicine that

very few understood, had irrigation systems and

agricultural methods that the sheep herders in the north

could only marvel at, they sailed the rivers and the

Mediterranean, hauling freight importing and exporting in

such quantities that it still amazes the archaeological world

today. One little known fact is that their culture, after a

great war in the Levant produced a peace treaty that is

known as the first of its kind, they left in the archives of

history art and architecture that has been copied down through the ages, their work has been

stolen and secreted to the far corners of the world, all their accomplishments have inspired the

imaginations of travelers and writers for centuries and as mentioned their application of

mathematics has stunned scholars for thousands of year up to and including present day.

It was when the Ice began its retreat northward that the climate of Northern Africa started

changing, gone were the cool summer rains, taking with them fertile fields and dense forests

leaving behind the hot arid climate found today this change taking place in the late Paleolithic

period (15,000 to 10, 000 BC) forced the population to concentrate along the Nile and the sparse

tribes of hunter-gathers packed their bags and went where the water was news traveling fast that

their distant cousins who had been living in the Nile valley since the end of the Middle

Pleistocene (120,000 years ago) had it pretty good.

It was a slowly changing climate that caused the population explosion in the Nile valley, just astoday scientists and scholars are predicting another climate change if in studying history we

note that the climate changed over centuries, bringing about a gradual advancement ofHomo

sapiens driving them away from the easy living across the savannah making life a bit more

difficult due to the heavy concentrations of people. It is called change folks, and like the late

Paleolithic period today it seems that were not going to be able to stop the change the question


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becomes will we be able to survive the movement of people after all were a bit more than there

was wandering around some 12,000 years ago and we just might be moving backwards.

It was a British Army deserter, James Lewis posing as an American engineer in 1826 who first

took notice of a series of mounted ruins near a small town in Punjab named Harappa, and

over the years the name of that town came to be known as the Harappa Civilization, the oldest

known urban culture in the Indus Valley. The site is located in what is now Pakistan and western

India all-in-all the culture covered an area the size of Western Europe.

The ancient Harappa Civilization was the largest of four ancient civilizations of Egypt,

Mesopotamia, India and China yet of its history it is the least known. Mainly because of the

Indus method of writing, which we have not been able to decipher whereas there have been

found remnants of the script on pottery vessels, seals and amulets but we have yet to have found

a Rosetta Stone, thereby lacking any direction in deciphering their account by linguists and

archaeologists.

Occupied for many centuries it wasnt until around 2600-1900 BC that the Harappa culture

reached its peak, having a tremendous economic influx on the surround region with an explosion

in urban growth. This period of time is known as the Golden Age of Harappa, whereas the

culture experienced a rapid growth in technology, trade and a continuous urban expansion.

For the first time in the regions history evidence has been found that supports the facts that

many people of different classes and occupations lived together. Between 2800-2600 BC, the

Kot Diji period, Harappa morphed into a thriving economic center, at its focal point an area

equal to several large shopping malls, incorporating a level of architectural expertise unparalleled

in the ancient world.

As other Indus Valley cities it was laid

out in grid-like patterns with the

orientation of streets and buildings

according to the cardinal directions with

ease of access to other neighborhoods and

segregated private ant public areas. It had


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many drinking water wells and a highly sophisticated system of waste removal, whereas all

Harappan houses were equipped with latrines, bathing areas, and the waste emptied in to large

mains which made its way to settling ponds and later applied as fertile sludge to the surrounding

agriculture fields.

Like the Phoenicians of the Levant, the Harappa culture did not rule by military right, whereas

it appears the merchants were the rulers with a little religion thrown into the mix. No where is

there to be found a monument dedicated to might or glorification and no monument dedicated to

war or conquered enemies. As the Phoenicians the strong speculation is that the rulers were

wealthy merchants, or powerful landlords or even some spiritual leaders and that the resultant

leaders showed their power and status with the use of seals and fine jewelry.

As for the seals which are the most commonly found object in the Harappan cities, they are

decorated with motifs such as elephants, water buffalo, tigers and most of all unicorns, along

with some found showing prototypes of later Hindu religious figures, some which are found

today in various locations in India and Pakistan.

Scholars have concluded that there was a healthy economic and social structure within all of the

Indus Valley, similarly they have put aside the notion of an Aryan invasion of the Valley for

the remaining strong influence of the religion of Shiva worship, a concept that has continued on

down from the ancient Harappan society, It was supposed that the Aryans destroyed the

Harappa cities around 1500 BC, causing the decline of the Indus civilization a belief no longer

accepted laying the decline on climate changes that caused great droughts beginning around 2200

BC, forcing the abandonment of the cities pushing the population westward. Recent findings

have shown that the Sumerian empire also declined sharply during the same time period, again

due to a climate shift, and the close proximity to each other it is now naturally assumed that the

climate change affected both cultures.

As the Harappan cities began to decline they did so as a result of many factors, not the least

being their overextended political and economic networks, and the drying of their major rivers.

Around 1900-1300 BC evidence is found that demonstrates that their once majestic cities were no

longer being maintained along with being overcrowded, which leads to the conclusion that

their once powerful rulers were loosing their authority, and a new world order was born. The first


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thing to disappear were the cultural elites, but all-in-all the Indus culture did not slip by the

wayside as new cities were born in the Ganga and Yamuna river valleys between 600-300 BC,

cities that maintained the cultural and technological aspects of the earlier cities whereas these

new cities kept the technologies, artistic symbols, architectural styles, and certain aspects of the

social organization as the Harappan society. This fact alone disputes the idea of an Aryan

invasion, whereas the Indus cities may have declined, for various reasons, their culture continued

on with only a small tick here or there.

Mohenjo-daro and the great bath

A couple of thousand miles northeast of the Indus Valley in China in Lantian County a 6,500

year old Banpo Neolithic village was discovered in 1954, in the Yellow River Valley just east of

Xian. The site contains the remains of several well organized Neolithic settlements dating back

to approximately 4500 BC. It area is made up of some 14 plus acres which were surrounded by a

ditch, supposedly a defensive moat over 16 feet wide. The houses were circular, constructed of

mud and wood with overhanging thatched roofs set on low foundations, the entire site had several

communal burial plots. Between 1954 and 1957, 538,183 square feet of the Banpo site was

excavated revealing a wealth of information of the culture.

The Banpo site was associated with the Yangshao Culture, being part of the Banpo phase dating

between 5000 BC to 4000 BC, where earlier excavations of the site revealed by whatever means


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or reason that the culture was once a strong matriarchal society, how-some-ever it appears the

facts do not support the existing dominance of the male in China and they now claim the site was

not matriarchal. Equally modern Chinese archaeological

research reveals little if any evidence that suggests any

religious or political structure from the ruins beneath the

soil. Evidence of a culture rewriting history to fit the

existing rulers as Russia did when Stalin rose to power.

Not to be disputed is the find of the Lantian Man or

Homo erectus lantianensis, a sub-species of Homo erectus

that was discovered in Lantian County in 1963, in Shaanxi

province about 31-miles southeast of the city of Xian.

Albeit it is older than Peking Man, at 530,000 to 1 million years old, it is younger than Yuanmou

Man at some 1.7 million years old.

A few years after the life of the Lantian Man had come to an end, the Xian region became the

cultural and political center of China from 1046-256 BC for the Zhou Dynasty one dynasty that

lasted longer than any other dynasty in Chinas history. It was during the Zhou Dynasty that use

of iron was introduced to China, and of greater importance is was during this dynasty that written

script evolved and developed to a finite art in the later stages of the Zhou Dynasty. It was the 1st

emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang who had the Terracotta Army constructed and placed in his

future mausoleum just east of Xian soon after his ascension to the throne (246 BC to 221 BC)

he was 13 when the Terracotta Army project began, which it is said involved over 700,000

workers.

The Emperors army consists

of over 8,000 soldiers at 6 to 64

tall, with over 130 chariots with

520 horses and 150 cavalry

mounts even today a majority of

the army is still buried in the pits.

Qin was buried with palaces,scenic towers, court officials,

valuable utensils and wonderful

objects with 100 rivers fashioned

in mercury, whereas recent testing has shown high levels of mercury in the soil in and around Mt

Lishan. The actual tomb of Shi Huang Di is beneath an earthen pyramid that is 250 feet tall and


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just shy of 1,148 square feet. It have never been opened, and the

predominant opinion is that it will never be opened so that the

objects buried with the Emperor will be undamaged photos and

videos are a no-no in the area along with the fact that only a select

few foreigners, such as the Queen of England, who have been

permitted to walk through the Terracotta Army.

There are many such ancient civilizations scattered across our

Blue Marble, so many that confusion runs amuck on whose

civilization came first regardless of the dates weve managed to

assemble as a reference.

For countless centuries our scholars believed Egypt was the established cradle of civilization of

our modern world, but finds such as those in South Africa are now shedding a new light on the

assumption, while most believe that the absence of any scientific knowledge gauges the society

other scholars in searching through the ruins of Mesopotamian and Phoenician civilizations are

finding that they pre-date Egypt, and the recent discoveries in China pre-date even them. There

are a few steadfast historical high-brows that hang tough to the concept that most major

civilizations were connected to the Mediterranean Sea. In their belief tell us that Egypt exported

its civilization to Greece and Rome, and that our modern civilization is closely related to our not

so distant past.

Albeit our past is clouded almost to the point of obscurity, as a race we tend to tie our antiquity

back to this or that type of religion seems that the myths and stories tied in with this Far Eastern

religious figure or that one carries more weight, than tales of leadership and glory out of the cold

northland in my opinion just a matter of poor public relations.

The civilizations which came into being

several thousand years ago on the shores of

the eastern Mediterranean, reached a high-

level of achievement a status that we still

admire today and constantly puzzle over

how they were able to accomplish some oftheir advancements. Of course, we compare

their works to what were able to do today,

such as the construction of the Pyramids and the great temple in Baalbeck, Lebanon.

Above all they were accomplished in science, industry, agriculture, trade and most of all in

War, all of which we have advanced with a great degree especially War which is a wonder to


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some of us in that we figured as we became more civilized we would have left War behind the

kitchen door and walked onto a better understanding of each other. Unfortunately, greed and the

thirst for the worlds yellow and black gold has shuttled the act of War back onto the stage of

human accomplishments and expertise. Some predict water or food will be the next driving force.

Through all of this it appears that three primary religions still remain the bone of contention

passed on to us down through the ages whereas Christianity, Judaism and Islam just cannot

agree on much of anything even down to who or what we call the supreme being or the

supposed creator of this place we call home.

Within Islam, for instance, are groups of radicals who have become so inflamed over those who

do not follow their brand of fire and brimstone, they are doing everything in their power to

destroy the other two religions with enough vigor to boil their blood when they hear or see their

counterpart walking, talking or skipping down the avenue. This is not to say that the other two

religions dont have their radicals, whereas in Judaism we find the Orthodox Jew at times more

radical then the Islamic nutcase, and in Christianity we find our Holy-Rollers and redneck

southern Baptists who look forward to destroying the likes of Jew and Muslims, at the drop of the

hat or the rifle hanging across the window of their Chevy pickup. Christians shoot at shadows,

finding nothing in the shadows they set about creating a bogyman theyre masters at it!

I have heard it said the religion has fashioned the destiny of the world, whether or not

destiny is the correct word or not, it is certainly true that it has begat more Wars than any other

cause in our past albeit the two major conflicts in our recent history were brought about by a

couple of zealots who just wanted to rule the world.

The basis for the now three primary religions in the world was one man who wandered out of

Southeastern Turkey under guidance from his God, from his lions with his 2nd wife who was from

Egypt, because his first wife was barren, came the supposed father of the Islam, and from his 1 st

wife came the father of Judaism and from offshoots of the Judaism family came the leader of

the Christian church. All three lay claim to a single-God theory, with all three pointing to the

Egyptians as violators of the faith by having in their bully-pulpit rhetoric more than one deity

but as most stories spread today, many fail to include the original texts or myths of

Zoroastrianism that was taught beginning around 600 BC this too was a religion that celebrateda single-creator, who was fair and kind and showed no evil toward his subjects. The worshipped

Aura Mazda as their supreme being, who in time he created other prominent beings who guided

the Persians (Iran) and other members of the sect in doing good on their earthly domain. When

Islam came into being around 700 BC, its followers did their level best to marginalize


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Zoroastrianism completing their job after the Islamic hordes invaded Iran, where today you will

find mostly Shiite followers of the prophet Mohammad.

Islamic scholars like to pit Christianity against Zoroastrianism every chance to they get,

proclaiming the Christianity supported by the wealth and power of the Romans stood against the

religion of Persia supported by the moral power of India and other locations in the Far East, while

the civilization of Egypt winding its way through Phoenicia and Mesopotamia separated the East

from the West preventing any grave confrontation of the two separate ideologies and

civilizations. I find their reasoning a little off-center and naturally leaning toward a solution or

outcome of which they divorce themselves. The claim is that as Christianity slowly took over the

Egyptian form of religion in both Egypt and Phoenicia the act brought Zoroastrianism face-to-

face and the battle lines were drawn. Albeit for centuries the East and West confronted each

other without intermingling between their own beliefs, each felt of the others religion erecting a

moral barrier that replaced the old barrier that was in-place by the Near Eastern civilizations.

Then again, this is an article of Ancient civilizations, not one on not-so-ancient journeys into

fantasy land concerning this or that religion we have as a modern society have become to

wound up in them as it isthe situation has become too far out of hand, it seems, to reign the

monster back behind its shell of respectability or sensibility dont you think?

Following some 196,000 years after the assembly of stones in South Africa we find that the

new kids on the block from the northland busted their butts and placed some stones in a similar

fashion on the Salisbury Plain in England whereas in recent days archaeologists and their tag-

alone scholars label the place Stonehenge, original dont you think?

The theory states that people from the

surrounding countryside set up their temporary

dwelling in a place called Durrington Walls at

the shifting of the seasons, celebrating the

equinoxes as our home spun its way through the

cosmos, in addition some guess they used the

region for ritual feasting and important funeral

ceremonies sadly no gold has been found as-of-late, but what the heck England wasnt known for its gold rather they had an abundance of tin.

The area around Durrington Walls lays claim to the largest Neolithic village ever found in

Britain, with dwelling being uncovered that date back to 2,600-2,500 BC the same period as

Stonehenge. This claim as the largest and oldest is based on scholars excavating eight houses,

but wait they have identified many other probable dwellings using up-to-date surveying tools.


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Their best guess is that there were more than 100-houses, each one around 16 square feet, not

Buckingham Palace mind you but we have advanced a bit since some 4,000 plus years. One

educated commentator on BBC news remarked about the evidence found that contained rubbish

covering the floors, It is the richest by that I mean the filthiest site of this period in Britain.

It appears that between 2600 BC and 1620 AD they didnt do a whole lot in cleaning up their act,

as when they traveled across the Atlantic they carried along with them all sorts of disease and

corruption that almost wiped out the Brown Race in North America. At the end of the day, it is

still unclear who or what really put the stones in place at Stonehenge or other scattered locations

across Europe no matter they are there!

In a strange way much attention has been paid to Stonehenge and it European counterparts,

whether this is on purpose or by accident the life and times of this plus 4000 year-old-site has

tickled the imagination of just as many as the discovery or the Pyramids in Egypt. One can only

suppose that the non-brown race would like credit as being the supreme rulers of our civilization,

disregarding previous finds across the globe as purely accidental burps in our history. I have read

some compositions by scholars who have examined the Pyramids of Central America, most

always beginning with even though they are well constructed, they are smaller in size as if

they have been copied by some individual who might have had the opportunity to cross the

Atlantic and check things out in Egypt. In other words, with the exception of damn few things,

the European race who have brought more war to our globe than any other, are most always

finding a way to lord their supposed superiority over the rest of civilization up to and including

the supposed invasion of India back in antiquity giving rise to the various advanced societies

being found there today of course the scholars from those societies who have shown some of

these flights of fancy to be false are shouted down from the lofty levels of European society so

be it! Just as the scholars and explorers of not-so-ancient North America and South America in

finding working tools pre-dating (22,000 BC plus) the supposed crossing of the land-bridge

between Siberia and Alaska, are shouted down as if they are first graders of science this action

has become the norm when explorers other than writing under the guidance of their European

counterparts, attempt to publish their noted works and find that even their acceptance in Readers

Digest is shunned.Today we find another element tickling the chests of the holy-than-thou citizens in the West,

the rise of the Arabic race totally unacceptable to the superior West, this unacceptability they

color with the Arabs religion, Islam. Today we find an undercurrent that supposes that some in

the West have created bogymen dressed as the Arab, moving around creating terrorist activity

that has the West up in arms, yet there is another group that accent every little action pushed by


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the radicals (there are some in every race, check out Rush Limbaugh) who run about stirring the

pot or threatening or committing havoc across the globe. In other words, it is not fair to state with

a straight face that over the past few hundred years or so that all the terror caused on our globe

has been caused by Arabs, or as some of our selected elites push for labeling all Arabs as radical

Muslims out to conquer the known world. A world the Europeans have ruled with impunity

since the invention of the sail running about with a stick with a flag waving from its top being

shoved into some sandy beach far across the waves from their homeland the White European

had arrived to save the day and fill their coffers with distant riches ripped from the hands of the

indigenous race who just happened to occupy the land they lusted afterthey called in progress

and the age of discovery. Today educated individuals call it stealing and a few other choice

words.

Albeit I could walk down the streets in the West and would find six out of ten pointing their

fingers at the Arab people of the worldespecially in America and England, and maybe a few

above average in France. Like during the two great wars, we are today gathering all the people

from the land of the radical Arab into the same bucket just as we did the ordinary citizens of

Germany and Japan. We are ready to construct concentration or relocation camps and herd these

people behind their walls, while we do war against their homeland blitzing the countryside and

again maybe like we did after the last two great battles, waltz back into the bombed out landscape

throw a few dollars around and wrap our arms around the survivors while we pick their pockets

removing their scientists, scholars and numerous other previous shakers and movers from their

society. Our leaders smile and pat each other on the back, send a few dollars to the Pope and

whatnot and go to sleep at night with the righteous feeling that they have saved the world,

naturally stuffing a few coins found here and there in their pocketbooks to fight another day.

Our entire society loves war, we cant help it, it is engrained we seem to love the fact that there

will be a day when each and every one of us might have the chance to rule over our neighbor, so-

to-speak. Since man first came down from the trees (some maintain) he brought part of the tree

with him, fashioned it into a serviceable device and clubbed anyone who strolled past or through

his patch of ground. Eventually, some write, he started pounding on the heads of the other gender

dragging them into his cave to have his way with them, hence the population grew and moreclubs were made.

From this small but effective beginning, relatives of this man now have weapons that can and

will destroy that patch of ground beneath that tree from days-gone-by, trouble is if it were

possible wed soon realize that none of us are even close to that patch of ground, in that none of

us own or live on our original patch of ground we have conquered, and/or ran amuck on each


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others land for so long that there isnt a patch of ground left that once belonged to its original

owner, consequently we really dont care if we wipe it clean in some wild act of desperation.

Not meaning to preach, but here we are an advanced civilization, supposedly beyond the

advances of any ancient society yet, when you peel back the ages we might have developed a

few technical toys but were just as mired in the muck of conflict as we ever have been, more so

in some cases.

On August 26th, 1071 a series of small wars took place that dragged the existing civilized

society into a series of small wars, staring with the invasion of the Seljug (Arabic) forces led by

Alp Arslan against the Byzantine Empire. History refers to these small wars as the Crusades,

whereas the Holy Roman Empire and armies from Europe pitted their mercenaries against the

Muslims all along the northern and eastern side of the Mediterranean Sea it was the Pope

against the hordes of Mohammad. We all know the result the Muslims whipped the drawers off

the mercenaries of the Pope and the leaders of Europe. For hundreds years the Muslims

controlled the holy city of Jerusalem, albeit one of the profitable gains of the Crusades was the

re-establishment of Trade between the East and West at the unofficial end of them in fact

history has shown that without the Islamic influence in Europe it quite likely theyd still be in the

dark ages. It sure in the hell wasnt the citizens of Judaism, theyre mostly bankers.

One of the negative aspects of the battles between the East and the West was the beginning of

the prosecution of the Hebrew race especially within the European realm volumes have been

written detailing this action which Im sure would put you to sleep faster than a warm cup of

chocolatebefore you tucked yourself in between the sheets.

Unfortunately, due to a series of events (some suspect) we find our global society once again

lining up choosing sides for another up and coming war in the Middle Eastthis time without

horses and tall men strutting their stuff with red crosses splashed across their chests and turbans

wrapped around their heads. Once again the reasons are the same, finance and greed, whereas the

first go-around was about some up-on-step Arabs threatening the financial empire of the Holy

Roman Catholic church. Now we find the reason being the presence of black gold in great

abundance beneath the sands of the Middle East, and the greed and corruption of a few financial

houses in Europe who just cannot stand the fact that maybe these evil hordes will control the fuelof society.

Naturally if you look at the boards and controlling members of the financial industry, youll see

some old money that dates back a few hundred years, to a group of Hebrews that grimace with

glee when they dream of the demise of their age-old-enemy albeit there is a slight chance that

most of them can trace their linage back to the gang that Abraham led from the valleys and


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