ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS

If you have followed the line of investigation of this website, you have at this point met or been reunited with archaeological finds from sites from all over the world, from a couple thousand meter above sea level to some dozens of meters below. By themselves they are remarkable enough, but possibly even more remarkable are the relations between them, of which examples have already been given by the stylistic and possibly also technological relations between Peru, the Bahamas, and Yonaguni (and the wider Pacific region). It are these possible relations and consequences of them that are the subject right now. For the sake of the argument, the probabilities are substituted for certainties while doing the reasoning, and will be reinstituted at the end.

The previous investigations on specific sites and features have turned up the following remarkable features:

  1. Ruins of artificial structures dozens of meters below sea level (see Yonaguni).
  2. Knowledge of the geography of the entire earth in ancient times (see Ancient maps).
  3. Knowledge of the earth being a sphere in ancient times (see Ancient maps).
  4. Stone working technology beyond those of known civilizations (see Stone technology).
  5. Knowledge of wildlife from continents other than the home one (see Marcahuasi).
  6. Relations between ancient alfabets (see Characters)
  7. Cultural similarities between ancient remains from different continents (see Connections).
Making the list is almost the same as drawing the conclusion from it: in ancient times there was a civilization that contained all the sites from which we have these remains, or a civilization that preceded all the civilizations on all of these sites. The only problem is that known or regular history and archaeology have no place for such a civilization. According to them, the first advanced civilization is the Egyptian, which is dated back to three to four thousand years BC. The reason that no preceding civilization is recognized is that no recognized remains of a preceding civilization have been found.

Here comes the importance of the underwater finds to the fore. The most important problem of any archaeological investigation, and certainly of ancient archaeology, is the problem if dating. The underwater remains can be dated roughly, because we have knowledge about the sea levels through time. Regions that are now a few dozens of meters under water, like considerable parts of the Caribbean and in Europe much of the North Sea, where above water some eight to ten thousand years ago. So taking that the Yogaguni remains form part of this unrecognized civilization, this civilization can be dated back to times preceding the rise in sea level from ten thousand years ago. The only way out here is the possibility of lowering of the land itself, but usually these processes play on a much larger timescale than changes in seawater levels.

The conclusion can only be that with the Yonaguni finds we do have the remains of a preceding civilization. The remaining question is: if these remains are of the introduced earth spanning civilization, why aren't there much more signs from it?

This problem is the one for which Hapgood's investigations are essential. The natural disasters described in Cataclysm strike anything on earth, but especially a possibly existing civilization. The coastal residences, often the most important, will be wiped out by the tidal waves, and all others will lose all of there buildings and much of their population due to the earthquakes. When this has passed, the sudden change in climate will ruin their harvests, and the quick rise in sea level will flood all what remains of their coastal settlements.

If this description is correct, it is clear that relatively little will remain of this suggested civilization, and the less will remain the more this civilization was concentrated on living near the sea. Subsequently, what remained of the civilization has to survive through about ten thousand years, in order to be found by us. This rules out organic material and normal metals, will leaves stone and precious metals. If the latter had no value to the civilization, the only possible remains are stones.

Almost all of the remarkable finds described here have been of features made in stone. They are from under water and from above, and from the latter we have indications of damage by Hapgood-like disasters, and/or the knowledge of these disasters.

So the position of regular history and archaeology, that no remains of a preceding civilization have been found, is under pressure from the growing number of remains that is being found.

The investigation of scientific progress has found a rule for how such a process develops: at first the data that doesn’t fit is ignored, when it gets a bit more it is suppressed by disqualifying its sources, and when finally the amount of data gets too much or some decisive fact is found, the overall community changes its opinion in the sense in that they say that they always silently supported the new view, but it was the collegues who held them back. This process is so widespread, that there is has gotten its own name: paradigm shift.

The data collected here is not all of the highest certainty. However, according to the author, the total amount of it, together with the way the different parts strenghten each other, is near to the amount sufficient for a paradigm shift. It is also the opinion of the author, that the data from Yonaguni is close to or surpasses the demands of being a decisive find for a paradigm shift. This shift is the recognition of a civilization preceding the Egyptian one, from antediluvian times.