World's Before Our Own

World's Before Our OwnWhat happens when unique skeletal and cultural evidence from a prehistoric world

appear long before they should -- and in places where they should not...? Brad Steigerasks.

It is rather amazing that such sophisticated people, as we judge ourselves to be, do not evenknow who we are. And it becomes rather dismaying to discover that there is a great deal ofsuppressed, ignored, and misplaced pre-historical cultural evidence that would alter theestablished interpretations of human origins and provide us with a much clearer definition ofwhat it means to be human. Archaeologists, anthropologists, and various academicians who play the "origins of Man"game, reluctantly and only occasionally acknowledge instances where unique skeletal andcultural evidence from the prehistoric record suddenly appear long before they should -- and inplaces where they should not. These irritating artefacts destroy the orderly evolutionary line thatacademia has for so long presented to the public. Consequently, such data has been largely leftburied in site reports, forgotten storage rooms, and dusty archives. Although the Leakeys, that eminent family of anthropologists, have offered dramatic newevidence that the "homo" lineage goes back at least three million years, the academicconsensus holds that an ancestor of modern man evolved about one million years ago. HomoSapiens, the "thinking man," our own species... became the dominant planetary life form on aworldwide basis about 40,000 years ago. It is difficult enough to explain the sudden appearance or influx of Homo Sapiens at that time,but it is an even more complex question to ponder why Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon mancorrespondingly disappeared. And just when Richard Leakey is adding to a growing body ofevidence that mankind developed in Africa, a Hungarian excavation surrenders a HomoSapiens skull fragment in a context more than 600,000 years out of alignment with the acceptedcalendar of man's migrations across the planet. The Creationist may present an extreme point of view when he maintains that the world isroughly only 6000 years old and that man himself is only a few days younger, but what happensto evolution when there are such sites as the one in Australia, which yielded Homo Sapiens(modern man), Homo erectus (our million-year-old ancestor), and Neanderthal (our Stone Agecousin) in what appears to be a contemporaneous environment? Then there is the Tabun sitewhere Homo Sapiens fragments were found in strata below (which means older than) classicNeanderthal bones. This is but one of several digs that has produced evidence of modern manbefore what is accepted as one of his predecessors. Somewhere, in what would appear to be a biological and cultural free-for-all, there must lie theanswer to that most important question: Who are we? But just as we are trying our best to fit skeletal fragments together in a manner that will be

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found acceptable to what we believe we know about our origins, pre-Adamite footprints arebeing found, which, if they are what they appear to be, will make total shambles of our acceptedevolutionary calendar. In Pershing County, Nevada, a shoe print was found in Triassiclimestone, strata indicative of 400 million years, in which the fossilized evidence clearly revealedfinely wrought double-stitching in the seams. Early in 1975, Dr. Stanley Rhine of the University of New Mexico announced his discovery ofhuman-like footprints in strata indicative of 40 million years old. A few months before, a similarfind was made in Kenton, Oklahoma. At almost the same time, a similar discovery was revealedin north-central Wisconsin. At Glen Rose, Texas a 16-inch hominid footprint was next todinosaur tracks in contemporaneous strata, thereby suggesting that man may have outlived thegiant reptiles by 80 million years. If man lived at the same time as the dinosaurs, he might have been a king-sized fellow to betterconfront the gigantic reptiles. Skeletal remains of surprisingly large human beings have beendiscovered all over the Americas, from Minnesota to Nicaragua. The skeletons average in sizefrom seven to over eight feet tall -- and none of them are carved "Cardiff" hoaxes. In Death Valley, there is ample fossil and skeletal evidence to indicate that the desolate areawas once a tropical Garden of Eden where a race of giants lived and fed themselves withpalatable foods taken from the local lakes and forests. To speak of a race of prehistoric giants in what is now the desert sands of Death Valley issimultaneously to refute the doctrine which decrees that man is a relative newcomer to theNorth and South American continents. While on the one hand, new radiocarbon datesdemonstrate that the Bering Land Bridge and Cordilleran Ice Corridor were not passable until9000 years ago, an increasing amount of physical evidence indicates that man was surely inthis hemisphere much earlier than that recent date. For one thing, corn, a New World contribution to the pantries, is said to be, at 9000 years, ouroldest domesticated seed crop. Some earliest agriculturist had to be on this continent more than9000 years ago in order to domesticate the seed. Conclusive proof that such ancient farmersdid exist was offered when a Humble Oil Company drill brought up Mexican corn pollen that wasmore than 80,000 years old. The anomalous Indian blood seration and dentition and the geographic distribution of theAmerican Indian demands an impossible genetic time scale in which to transform Asiaticimmigrant to distinctive New World inhabitant. Even if we attempt to keep some kind of peacewith the accepted theories of New World habitation, we must grant more evolution in 40,000years in North America than that which took place in more than one million years in Europe,Africa, and Asia. We might rest our case by providing as evidence the 50,000 year-old skulls found in California,which are clearly those of American Indians, but we are left with another mystery. A 140,000year old American Indian type skull (via metric analysis) has been found at an Iranianexcavation site.

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What enormously complicates the above finding is the uneasy fact that no precedent or priorskull types of the American Indian have been found anywhere in the world. The Amerindiansappear without any evolutionary transformational base. The sites of the mysterious Mullions also offer no end of trouble to conventional timetables andesteemed evolutionary structures. The Mullion culture suddenly appeared approximately 10,000years ago along the Algerian coast with the largest skeletal population in the entire prehistoricrecord. In addition, the Mullions also possessed the largest cranial capacity of any populationthe world has ever known -- approximately 2,000 cc versus our present 1,400 cc. Whoever theMullions were, they inhabited the site only briefly, and their population consisted mostly ofwomen and children, who worked with tool types and domesticated animals never before seen. As we shall see again and again, we have such a limited knowledge and practically nounderstanding of the worlds before our own. For example, who walked the streets of thatremarkable ''minicivilization" in Yugoslavia? Whoever strode the boulevards of those now silentcities were once citizens of a culture that flourished before ancient Egypt and China -- 5000years before the glory that was Greece. What of the lost Amerindian civilization of Cahokia, complete with pyramids and a great wall?One site, near the present city of St. Louis, may have contained a metropolis of more than250,000 North American Indians. And who constructed the mysterious seven-mile walls of theBerkeley and Oakland, California, hills? Or the stone wall that runs for 20 miles near Petra inJordan? And which pre-Mayan peoples engineered an elaborate waterworks in Yucatan toirrigate crops over 2000 years ago? And orthodox pooh-poohing to the contrary, the pyramids do hold many mysteries. No one hasever really answered the anomalies of the Egyptian and Mexican pyramids; no one has trulydated them; and if we accept established theories for their construction, no one has explainedhow the earliest and smallest populations could erect the largest architecture. Scientific knowledge has seemingly been prized by certain inhabitants of every culture, knownand unknown. Rock engravings, which may be as old as 60 million years, depict in step-by-step illustrations anentire heart-transplant operation and a Cesarean section. These 150,00 engraved stones alsoportray scenes indicating that a very special race of man actually lived at the same time as theprehistoric monster reptiles. The ancient Egyptians used the equivalent of contraceptive jelly and had urine pregnancy tests.The cement used in filling Mayan dental cavities still holds after 1500 years. The Caracol Towerat Chichen Itza is a remarkable Mesoamerican observatory that seems to have correlated itsfindings with similar sites in North America, including Mesa Verde, Wichita, and Chaco Canyon.No fabric is supposed to have been found until Egypt produced cloth material 5000 years ago.How, then, can we deal with the Russian site which provides spindle whorls and patternedfabric designs more than 80,000 years old? Not only did the ancient Babylonians appear to use

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sulfur matches, but they had a technology sophisticated enough to employ complexelectrochemical battery cells with wiring. There is also evidence of electric batteries andelectrolysis in ancient Egypt, India, and Swahililand. There is evidence of a metal-working factory of over 200 furnaces which was found at what isnow Medzamor in Russian Armenia. Although a temperature of over 1780 degrees is requiredto melt platinum, some pre-Incan peoples in Peru were making objects of the metal. Even todaythe process of extracting aluminum from bauxite is a complicated procedure, but Chou Chu,famous general of the Tsin era (265-316 A.D.), was interred with aluminium belt fasteners onhis burial costume. Relics found embedded in solid rock or in ancient, undisturbed strata arecalled "erratics" The discoveries of these erratics suggest a vast antiquity for man's existenceon this planet. Carved bones, chalk, stones, together with what would appear to be greatly ornamented''coins," have been brought up from great depths during well-drilling operations. A strange,imprinted slab was found in a coal mine. The artifact was decorated with diamond-shapedsquares with the face of an old man in each ''box." In another coal-mine discovery, miners foundsmooth, polished concrete blocks which formed a solid wall. According to one miner'stestimony. he chipped one block open only to find the standard mixture of sand and cement thatmakes up most typical building blocks of today. A gold necklace was found embedded in a lump of coal. A metal spike was discovered in asilver mine in Peru. An iron implement was found in a Scottish coal-bed. Estimated to bemillions of years older than man is believed to have existed. A metal, bell-shaped vessel, inlaidwith a silver floral design was blasted out of solid rock near Dorchester, Massachusetts. Two hypotheses may explain the presence of these perplexing artifacts, these "erratics": 1) thatthey were manufactured by an advanced civilization on Earth which, due either to natural ortechnological catastrophe, was destroyed before our world's own genesis; 2) that they arevestiges of a highly technological civilization of extraterrestrial origin, which visited this planetmillions of years ago, leaving behind various artifacts. Even if a highly advanced extraterrestrial race might have visited this planet in prehistorictimes, it seems unlikely such common, everyday items as nails, necklaces, buckles and vaseswould have been carried aboard a spacecraft deposited in such widely separated areas; forerratics have been found in North and South America, Great Britain, the whole of Europe,Africa, Asia, and the Mid-East. The question of just what exactly may have happened to these worlds before our own is onethat invites a great deal of highly speculative thinking. In spite of the general unpopularity ofcatastrophism, there does seem to be a number of recently discovered "proofs" of ancientcataclysmic changes in the Earth's crust which may account for the nearly total disappearanceof these prehistoric worlds. Geological evidence indicates that these changes were both suddenand drastic might have completely overwhelmed and destroyed the early inhabitants and theircultures.

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Perhaps the most potentially mind-boggling evidence of an advanced prehistoric technologythat might have blown its parent-culture away is to be found in those sites which ostensibly bearmute evidence of pre-Genesis nuclear reactions. In earlier writings I told of the "fused green glass" found deep in the strata of an archaeologicaldig. The statement that such material had been known previously only at nuclear testing sites(where the sand had melted to form the substance) proved to be an unsettling thought for manyreaders. But throughout the planet, in the same geologic strata, there unequivocally exists areaswhich scientists state are strongly suggestive of nuclear reactions. Could it be possible thatthese sites provide evidence of a prehistoric nuclear war? ''Fused green glass" has been foundin such sites as pierrelatte in Gabon, Africa; the Euphrates Valley; the Sahara Desert; the GobiDesert; Iraq; the Mojave Desert; Scotland; the Old and Middle Kingdoms of Egypt; andsouth-central Turkey. At the same time, scientists have found a number of uranium depositsthat appear to have been mined or depleted in antiquity. This excerpt was taken from: Steiger, Brad. "Worlds Before Our Own." New York: Berkley

Publishing Group, 1979 obtainable from http://www.anomalistbooks.com/steiger2.html.

Housed in a warehouse in Ica, Peru, is a collection of stone tablets which carry picturesportraying advanced medical practice. The tablets were first seen and recorded by FatherSimon, a Jesuit missionary who accompanied Pizarro in 1525. Amongst other scenes portrayedare pictures of what appear to be Caesarian surgery and blood transfusions as well as the useof acupuncture needles and detailed images of what appear to be open heart surgery. Thetablets are not just anomolies: they open a Pandora's box of questions and challengeeverything we have been taught about our past. It is becoming increasingly evident that our notions of human history are not simply mistakenbut in need of a total overhaul. The evidence is beginning to mount to the point where it can nolonger be ignored; all across the planet archaeological finds are being made that are distinctly atodds with the conventional notions of humanity’s past and point to a revolution in the way wesee ourselves and our origins. Over the last two centuries various archeological finds have been unearthed which do not fit intothe conventional time-scale of pre-history; these so-called archeological anomalies have largelybeen buried in site reports or left to gather dust in museum storage rooms. However the sheervolume of these finds and the very nature of some of them calls for another look at the worldsbefore our own. Academic consensus maintains that the ancestor of modern man emerged one million yearsago. Whilst modern man, homo sapiens, only emerged as the dominant planetary life formsome 40,000 years ago; this is generally the line held by conventional archeologists andanthropologists, in spite of the fact that there is considerable evidence to the contrary. Thus we have the case of the metal spheres found by miners in the Western Transvaal, SouthAfrica. Over the past few decades miners in the area have come across metal spheres, oftengrooved, in layers of sedimentation estimated at 2.8 billion years old. According to Roelf Marx,

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curator of the Klerksdorp museum where they are kept: “The spheres are a complete mystery. ..They’re nothing like I have ever seen before.” Moreover the spheres are so hard that theycannot be scratched, even with a hard metal point. In 1979 several were closely examined byJ.R. McIver, professor of geology at the University of Witwatersrand in Jo’burg and AndriesBischoff, geology professor at Potschefstroom University. What they found only deepened themystery; averaging 1 to 4 inches in diameter the spheres are usually coloured steel blue withtiny flecks of white fibers embedded in them. They were found to be made of a nickel-steel alloywhich does not occur naturally, and is of such a composition that excludes any meteoric origin.Quite simply they do not fit into any conventional prehistoric time-scale. Likewise an early Paleolithic skull on display in London’s Natural History Museum would seemto defy all conventional archeology. Dated at 38,000 years old and excavated in 1921 in modernZambia, the skull bears a perfectly round hole about a third of an inch in diameter on its leftside. Opposite the hole, the cranium is shattered, and reconstruction of the fragments show thatthe skull was smashed from the inside out, as if from a bullet wound. Forensic experts who haveexamined the skull all agree that the cranial damage could only have been caused by a highspeed projectile. So the fact that the skull was excavated from a depth of 60 foot, of mostly leadrock, only deepens the mystery. Just as baffling is the case of an iron pot found in a block of coal. Thus according to an affidavitmade by Frank J. Kenwood in 1912: “While I was working in the Municipal Electric Plant inThomas, Okla, in 1912, I came upon a solid chunk of coal which was too large to use. I broke itwith a sledge hammer. This iron pot fell from the center, leaving the impression or mould of thepot in the piece of coal. . .I traced the source of the coal and found that it came from theWilburton, Oklahoma, Mines.” According to Robert O. Fay of the Oklahoma Geological Survey,the Wilburton mine coal is about 312 million years old. In a similar vein, so to speak, we have this account first published in Brad Steigers ‘World’sBefore Our Own: “In the year 1928, I, Atlas Almon Mathis, was working in coal mine No. 5.,located two miles north of Heavener, Oklahoma. This was a shaft mine, and they told us it wastwo miles deep. The mine was so deep that they let us down into it in an elevator . . .Theypumped air down to us, it was so deep.” After blasting the miners came across what appearedto be some concrete blocks, according to Mathis: “These blocks were 12-inch cubes and wereso smooth and polished on the outside that all six sides could serve as mirrors. Yet they werefull of gravel, because I chipped one of them with my pick, and it was plain concrete inside.” “As I started to timber the room up,” Mathis continued, “it caved in; and I barely escaped. WhenI came back after the cave-in, a solid wall of these polished blocks was left exposed. About 100to 150 yards farther down our air core, another miner struck this same wall, or one very similar.”The coal in the mine was probably carboniferous which, according standard dating methods,would mean that the wall was at least 286 million years old. Thereafter the mining company officials pulled the men out of the mine and forbade them tospeak about what they had found. In a strange twist of fate the men were then sent to theWilburton mine mentioned previously. According to Mathis the miners there spoke of havingfound “a solid block of silver in the shape of a barrel . . .with the prints of the staves on it.”

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As far back as the eighteen hundreds artifacts were being unearthed which defied conventionalarcheology. For example in 1871, William E. Dubois of the Smithsonian Institute reportedfinding several man-made objects whilst drilling a well in Marshall County, Illinois. Using a“common ground auger” a number of coin like objects were recovered from a depth of about114 feet. At that depth the Illinois State Geological Survey estimates the deposits were made“sometime between 200,000 and 400,000 years ago.” Dudois concluded that one coin in particular could only have been made in a machine shop.Noting its uniform thickness, he said the coin must have “passed through a rolling mill; and if theancient Indians had such a contrivance, it must have been pre-historic.” .W. Moffat, who was working with Dubois at the time, reported to the Smithsonian that otheranomalous objects were found whilst drilling in nearby Whiteside County, Illinois. At a depth of120 feet, workmen discovered “a large copper ring or ferrule, similar to those used on shipspars at the present time. . . They also found something fashioned like a boat-hook.” Moffatconcluded that: “There are numerous instances of relics found at lesser depths. A spear-shapedhatchet, made of iron, was found embedded in clay at 40 feet; and stone pipes and pottery havebeen unearthed at depths varying from 10 to 50 feet in many localities.” The Illinois State Geological Survey noted in 1984 that the age of deposits at 120 feet inWhiteside County varies greatly; in some places, they might only be 50,000 years old, whilst inother places one would find Silurian bedrock 410 million years old. And still, the evidence of world’s before our own continues to grow. On October 8,1922, The New York Sunday American ran a prominent feature by Dr W.H.Ballou: “while he was prospecting for fossils in Nevada,” Ballou wrote, “John T. Reid, adistinguished mining engineer and geologist, stopped suddenly and looked down in utterbewilderment and amazement at a rock near his feet.” What Reid had actually stumbled onwas, it appeared, a fossilized footprint. According to Ballou it was, “apparently, a shoe solewhich had turned into stone . . .there was the outline of at least two-thirds of it , and around thisoutline ran a well defined sewn thread which had, it appeared, attached the welt to the sole.Further on there was another line of sewing” . . .and . . “an indentation, exactly such as wouldhave been made by the bone of the heel rubbing upon and wearing down the material of whichthe sole had been made.” Reid then took the fossil to New York where it was examined by a number of eminent scientists.Their conclusions were unanimous, in effect “it was the most remarkable natural imitation of anartificial object they had ever seen.” The scientists were also agreed that the rock formation wasTriassic in origin whilst Dr W. D. Mathew of the American Museum of Natural History declared ita remarkable imitation, “a freak of nature.” Despite Mathew’s dismissal, Reid persisted: “I next got hold of a micro-photographer and ananalytical chemist” wrote Reid: “The micro-photo magnifications are twenty times larger than thespecimen itself, showing the minutest detail of thread twist and warp, proving conclusively that

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the shoe sole is not a resemblance, but is strictly the handiwork of man. Even to the naked eyethe threads can be seen distinctly . . .I will add that at least two geologists . . .have admitted thatthe shoe sole is valid, a genuine fossilization in Triassic rocks.” It should be added that theTriassic period is now generally dated at around 213 - 248 million years ago. Some of the archeological anomalies discovered, like the above, are quite prosaic and certainlynot the product of a hi-tech civilization. However some very obviously are the vestiges of atechnically very advanced culture; like the minute spiral shaped objects unearthed in theEastern Urals which bear a remarkable resemblance to cutting edge nano-technology, asdetailed in earlier stories. Some other anomalies are quite literally monumental however, such as the ziggurat found offthe coast of Okinawi, Japan. Over 600 feet wide and 90 feet high, the edifice was initiallythought to be a natural formation on its discovery, nearly 10 years ago. However closerinspection prompted a reassessment. Thus according to Professor Kimura, a marine geologistat the University of Okinawa: “This could only have been done by a people with a high degree oftechnology . . .There would have been some sort of machinery involved to create such a hugestructure.” Elsewhere similar evidence has been unearthed which points to scientific and technicalknowledge existing long before it was previously assumed. In 1938, Dr Wilhelm Kong, anAustrian archeologist, was rummaging around the basement of a Baghdad museum when hecame across a six inch high pot of clay. The pot contained a cylinder of sheet copper which wassoldered with a 60-40 lead-tin alloy, whilst the bottom of the cylinder was a crimped-in copperdisk sealed with bitumen. Another insulating layer of bitumen sealed the top and held in placean iron rod suspended into the centre of the copper cylinder. With a background in mechanics,Dr Kong immediately recognized that what he was looking at was, in effect, a battery. What wasunusual though was that it had been unearthed from an archeological site dated 2000 years old,whilst other similar artifacts had been recovered from sites dated as far back as 5000 years.These latter were unearthed from Sumerian remains in southern Iraq and dated to at least2,500 BC. That’s long before Michael Faraday is said to have discovered electromagneticinduction and the laws of electrolysis in the early 1800’s. So the million dollar question is: were these artifacts the forerunner of Faraday’s discovery . . .or the vestiges of a technically advanced civilization? And if these artifacts were the remnants ofan advanced civilization then there follows the Billion dollar question: what exactly happened tothis civilization? Could it have been that it was engulfed in some kind of nuclear Armageddon?Evidence indicative of nuclear explosions has been discovered across the planet in the form of“fused green glass” found deep in the strata of various archeological digs. Usually only found atnuclear testing sites, the glass has been unearthed at various archeological digs as far apart asGabon, Africa, the Gobi Desert and Scotland. Is it possible that a previous civilization was destroyed by a nuclear conflict? Could it be that ahandful of survivors emerged from the ruins of a nuclear apocalypse and then, over millennia,

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slowly rebuilt civilization? Or could there be another reason for these anomalies. Whilst weaccept that the above may well be a possibility we would suggest that there maybe otherexplanations. We would suggest that shifting crustal displacements could be a critical factor here. Thistheory, first postulated by Charles H. Hapgood and subsequently backed by no less than AlbertEinstien, was outlined by Richard Noone in the ‘Hammer and the Pendulum’, featuredpreviously. More than that though we would suggest that this scenario has occurred not justonce but on a number of previous occasions; indeed what we are looking at is a cyclic pattern, apattern that has embossed itself across the face of unrecorded human history. As Richard Noone described in his article the event would be dramatic and cataclysmic,triggering a geological Armageddon; across the planet there would a wave of earthquakes,floods and volcano’s as the planets rigid crust suddenly shifted and tore itself asunder. And forthose few who were not killed in the initial shocks there would only be a desperate struggle tosurvive in the ruins of a shattered civilization. Stripped of everything that they had taken forgranted they would be left with nothing but memories of the former civilization. And then a fewgenerations later there would little else but stories of a golden age and a great flood that haddestroyed everything in its path. As the millennia passed so too would the memories and storiesfade, until one day millennia later there would be little else but legends of a fabulous civilizationand stories of a mythical flood. And maybe, just maybe, a few archeological anomalies thatwould one day baffle future scientists. Sources include: The Hidden History of the human race, The condensed edition of Forbidden

Archeology, Michael A. Cremo and Richard L. Thompson, World’s Before Our Own, BradStieger. 5-5-2000, Richard Noone.

 

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