Prehistory

A theory put forth by a group of 25 geo-scientists suggests that a massive comet exploded over Canada, possibly wiping out both beast and man around 12,900 years ago, and pushing the earth into another ice age.

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Dr. Zahi Hawass, the man on the scene...

Interesting article here about an ancient eruption that took place in the 17th century BC. Its important because a diaster like this would have killed many. Could have set back the human race. Still there is Dr. Hawass on the scene being the man. Pointin and directing. Hell he just opened a new field of Egyptology with this nugget of info. Like EF Hutton, or in the cas ZH Hawass speaks and everyone listens. This guy may be the Egyptian with the most international face time on publications today. Dude is everywhere. Anyway check the article if you like, its another piece of the prehistory puzzle.

A neat little discovery from the world of archaeology....

Here is an article from Discovery that shows that ancient humans who had a close relationship with the water can be identified by auditory exostoses, a abnormal bone mass in the ear. This is but one way to figure out the past lives of the prehistory folks that roamed the earth.

Any other ideas like this from anyone out there?

This kinda underlines what I think. Looks like I am not the only one.

The fact we know so little about human prehistory stems from the problem of where exactly did they live. Coastlines 20000 years ago were way different than they are now. Check the article below for what some underwater acheaologiest are doing down in Texas. I am total agreement with the notion that there is much of human history underwater.

No signs of ancient underwater human habitation found

08:00 AM CDT on Tuesday, March 13, 2007

By Leigh Jones / Galveston County Daily News

GALVESTON — The underwater explorers who spent last week scouring the offshore continental shelf for signs of 19,000-year-old human habitation sailed back to Galveston empty-handed Saturday.

The crew of geologists, biologists and marine archeologists was hoping to find clues of human activity in the area during the last Ice Age, when they believe the Texas coastline extended 100 miles into the Gulf of Mexico.

The expedition did not turn up anything definitive, but the scientists did find what they believe to be signs of the ancient shoreline about 330 feet below the ocean’s surface.

“A series of long vertical steps look like they may have been created by the movement of waves, which carve out a trough and deposit material farther up,” wrote team member Todd Viola, who posted mission logs daily on the expedition’s Web site. “This is the same profile we see on modern beaches.”

Viola described the find as very exciting but noted further exploration would be necessary to verify the scientists’ theory.

Last week’s expedition, dubbed “Secrets of the Gulf,” was headed by Robert Ballard, the oceanographer and explorer best known for his discovery of the Titanic in 1985.

The team traveled from Galveston to the Flower Garden Banks, the northernmost coral reef on the United States continental shelf, aboard the SSV Carolyn Chouest with the U.S. Navy’s nuclear-powered research submarine in tow. It was the first expedition Ballard led from shore.

Using a shipboard television studio and satellite technology, the team transmitted live video feed to groups of scientists all over the country. They also produced five live informational broadcasts each day.

According to the mission logs, the short expedition was plagued by bad weather and technical difficulties that limited use of Ballard’s underwater research capsule, Argus. When it finally entered the water, the remotely operated vehicle transmitted high-definition pictures of the ancient shoreline on the last day of the trip.

While Argus was out of commission earlier in the week, the team relied on images from the submarine. Two scientists at a time stretched out in the bottom of the 145-foot vessel and peered out of view ports to observe the ocean floor.

The submarine’s unique construction — with wheels for driving along the seabed — allowed the scientists to scrutinize the reef from a depth of 40 feet.

The discovery of an active mud volcano created quite a stir, wrote submarine captain Rick Panlilio in a March 6 log entry.

“We imaged it first with our side scanning sonar and found a large crater about 50 yards across on the summit,” he wrote. “The summit was about 160 feet up from the surrounding plane. On the sonar images, we could see a wisp of something trailing off the top of the mound.

“We thrusted the submarine down on top of the hill and crept toward the center and, ‘Eureka!’ we found that the dormant volcano was highly active, with a constant jet of gas, brine and silt being ejected from a briny mud pool inside the crater. The rocky structure inside the crater was jagged and run through with small canyons where dense brine seeped out.”

The submarine and its crew sailed back to Galveston on Saturday. The scientists returned to their labs, but the Navy crew will remain in port until they leave for their next expedition Thursday.

During their layover, Lt. James Krohne said the sailors would be taking a trip to the Johnson Space Center to compare notes with the astronauts.

Prehistory

Yeah this is straight plagerism, but I am saving this for research purposes, so come and get me. Link to pics. I know this is boring and some of you are like "dude you suck!" but I dont give a rats ass. This blog was always about research anyway. This is actually the 3rd life this thing has taken and I lost tons of data on my last two changes, NO MORE i say. Anyway prehistory intrests me like nothing else in history and thats why you see this stuff. We are only beginning to understand our prehistory. Wait until the thread unravels. Your gonna love it.

First-Ever Dwelling Mound Found in Germany

A 7,000-year-old dwelling mound has been found in Germany, causing a stir among archaeologists. It is the first find of its kind in Western Europe.

A room with a view has always been a coveted thing. Over the millennia, humans discovered that it could be achieved by simply staying put over generations and not picking up the garbage. By building and rebuilding on the rubble of their own architectural remains, sedentary humans managed to achieve an impressive height.


The result of this process, known to archaeologists as a dwelling mound, is most commonly associated with the Middle East; in Iraq, the structures reach a height of 40 meters. They are also known in the Balkans and South America, but not in Germany -- at least until now.

Hence the discovery of a dwelling mound near Oberröblingen in Saxony-Anhalt has caused something of a stir in the German archaeological establishment. Thought to be 7,000 years old, the oval-shaped mound, which is roughly 100 meters long, 60 meters wide and 1.8 meters high, consists of the clay remains of centuries of previous structures.

"This is a unique find in Germany," Robert Ganslmeier of the State Museum of Prehistory in Halle told the news agency DPA. "People have been living and building here since the early Stone Age."

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Discovered during highway construction work, the mound is now the site of harried archaeological activity. "We don't have any time to lose," says Ganslmeier. "The bridge builders are breathing down our necks."

The archaeologists believe that various rituals took place on the mound, including sacrifices. "We found two beheaded young people and next to them, the fragmented skeleton of a horse, minus skull and hind legs," explains Ganslmeier. Dog skulls and the remains of a calf were also found. One of the young people was wearing a bone bracelet, and the animal skeletons were surrounded by ceramic vessels. "Either these people were sacrificed or executed," says Ganslmeier.

For unknown reasons, the mound was abandoned about 5,500 years ago, Ganslmeier explains. "3,000 years ago, people of the late Bronze Age came and re-occupied it for another 300 years."

It's pure coincidence that the mound has been so well preserved. The recent diversion of a nearby river spared it from erosion. Ganslmeier believes there could well be more dwelling mounds in Germany, "but they'll be hard to find."

Pre-history is where its at. Someday this will explain dragons, aliens, Atlantis, and God.

Alright, I saw this on Yahoo news this morning and went digging to see whats up. When I was bloggin back in the day, I got the idea to write about these wrtched thoughts I have about prehistory. See after all I have read on the subject, after reading all the "time lines" everyone has figured out, after observing human behavior, I just can't rest on the conclusions some of the people out there are making. I believe human civilization is longer and more storied than any of us think. We were incredibly advanced in the past, advancded enought to be able to circumnavigate the globe or at least cross the oceans to other continents. The problem is how to prove all this. It was hard to delete the first blog cause there was many of a article on there like this one that I was going to use in building my case.

For example, look at the above mentioned article. Its saying that these "Cloivis pointed" arrowheads technonlgy was wround longer or spread more rapidly that human growth would have. That means the populaitons were already in place. This part of the world has had inhabitants longer that we previously thought. What'd you think, millions of years of nothing, then blam the Great Pyramids of Giza are built? It doesn't happen that way. Things like math and geometry have to be thought out and proven long beofre they are put to the test like they are in building very large structures. I think the window is the last 100,000 years. There was an iceage in that era we need to understand more of. It was responsible for what happened to humans years in the past. Which leads to the next quesiton. Wheres the proof? Underwater. More to come later.