Yes, Amazing thread!!!

Donnersurvivor, have you ever heard of the Piri Reis map?

It is a map made in 1513 and uses the Mercator Projection; a projection that is said to not have been used by European cartographers until the late 16th century. It details south America and appears to show the continent of Antarctica, the Azores, the Canary Islands, and a the so-called “mythical” island of Antillia.

Antarctica is of interest because it was not discovered until nearly 300 years after the map was printed. Many people think that the area shown is not Antarctica and the map is controversial depending on one’s world view.

I agree about the similarities on both sides of the Atlantic. These similarities, especially in Megalithic architecture, are so astonishing to me that I think it is hard to argue that the peoples did not share a common knowledge. Interesting to think that Atlantis could have been where the present-day Azores are located today. There are underwater cities found all over the globe. There are mysterious underwater temples found in Lake Titicaca at depths of over 100 feet. The similarities between Gobekli Teppe, Turkey and Cusco, Peru are mind blowing. The ancient Andes civilizations such as the Nazca, Paracas, and Chachapoya cultures all practiced mummification, elongated skulls, and trepanation. These practices were also used by ancient civilizations around the middle east and Black Sea areas.

The evidence makes it clear to me that an advanced civilization existed and navigated the globe long, long ago. I don’t think we give the ancient ones near enough credit.

Lots of mystery surround the map, but it is very interesting....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMeoy6aQX1U

This is a really amazing documentary about the Great Mayan Aquifer Project. It talks about how the Mayans were able to make their calendar and calculate the path of the sun. They have also recently found a very large cenote under the main castle at Chichen Itza. Using underwater archaeology and geophysics scientists are beginning to discover that many of the Mayan myths are based on something real. The documentary is in Spanish with English subtitles, but I thought it was still very interesting. The underwater footage and how they navigate and map the underwater caves is fascinating! Hope I posted the link correctly.

Great Mayan Aquifer Project

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZc3W3aMdLg

Very interesting show on NOVA right now about glaciation, and how different the climate was 12,000 years ago.

The show claims that human beings are the reason for the modern day decline in glaciers and melting of the permafrost. I don't necessarily buy all that, but it is interesting to look at the data from the ice cores on what the world was like back then.

Now this is cool. A new study just released yesterday in the journal Plos One suggests that there were two very distinct populations of paleo-indians inhabiting Mexico over 10,000 years ago. One distinct population in central Mexico and one inhabiting the Yucatan where the Maya were. As we have discussed earlier on this thread, this evidence is really challenging traditional dogma about the settlement of the Americas. The researchers are saying that their evidence points to two conclusions......

1. They are derived from human populations from different geographical points of orign.....or,
2. They are the result of local micro-evolutionary processes

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ancient-skeleton-mexico-underwater-cave-early-americans

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0227984

watched alot about that...really interesting and many they say pre-dates bc

Check This Out!!

The ancient Mayans were mining 12K+ years ago and like we've been discussing, genetic testing is rewriting the dominant paradigm! Cool stuff, I wish I knew how to put a link in so you can see it!

https://www.sciencealert.com/ancien...red-in-underwater-caves-on-mexican-coast

https://www.sciencealert.com/new-ev...between-native-americans-and-polynesians

Imagine a time before monogamy, I image young men unable to find mates were quite adventurous, it doesn't surprise me some may have said from east to west on a wooden raft.

My high school chemistry teacher went to some ruins on a dig when she was in college and found an amazing obsidian bladed knife. The handle appeared to be jade as it was carved green stone. She didn't tell anyone and smuggled it back to the U.S. Was probably 10 inches long in total. It was in perfect shape, but she informed us later that during a move to a new house the movers knocked it off her display and the blade broke off.

and Al Gore was freaking out over a projected 3 foot rise in sea level.

Wow! A new study and evidence suggests that the old theory of the Mayans farming themselves to death and causing climate change, may just not hold up.
Seems that they were performing and preparing for sustainable agriculture during those times......

"In conversations about contemporary climate or ecological crises, the Maya are often brought up as a cautionary tale: "They screwed up; we don't want to repeat their mistakes,'" Scherer said. "But maybe the Maya were more forward-thinking than we give them credit for. Our survey shows there's a good argument to be made that their agricultural practices were very much sustainable."

Interesting read below:

https://phys.org/news/2021-11-ancient-maya-agricultural-cautionary-tale.html

Interesting stuff here Mike.....

https://phys.org/news/2021-11-archaeologists-pre-columbian-mass-grave-peru.html

This is a must read if you are interested in this kind of stuff! Very, very good. It's also available as an audiobook.

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