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Inside - Challenging the tenets of mainstream scientific a g e n d a s - P A G E 2 Engraved stone found in New World glacial paleosol Jeffrey Goodman P A G E 5 Member news and Special 3-part feature A 1.84 mya modern human finger bone is other information A comprehensive update being sold to the public as “not” Homo sapiens. Virginia Steen-McIntyre, on Dr. Jeffrey Goodman’s This is via science doublespeak: “These re- Terry Bradford, Bon- Flagstaff Stone and its U.S. children should follow sults lead to the conclusion that OH 86 repre- nye Matthews, Ray recently-completed the lead of 4th-grader Sydney sents a hominin...whose closest form affini- Urbaniak, John Feliks electron microprobe Smoot and fight for their rights ties are to modern H. sapiens. However, the dating results as well as against corrupted education. geological age of OH 86 obviously precludes its P A G E 6 details on how the arti- Corrupted education is increasing assignment to H. sapiens.” Are we reading 16,000-yr old arti- fact was censored for in the U.S. being spearheaded by straight science here? (see Dullum p. 16). facts, Gault, Texas 30 years—incl. by the institutions like AAAS, NRC, and Tom Baldwin Smithsonian Institution NSTA. Pressure groups are gain- (see Goodman p. 2). ing a foothold for controlling in P A G E 7 stages the psychology of chil- Children stand up dren via underhanded programs for their rights such as Common Core and the John Feliks Next Generation Science Stan- dards whereby science religion Arthur Posnansky P A G E 8 taught as fact is interwoven into Big Tobacco and the believed that saber- normal science. Children need toothed cats were science community critical thinking skills before being depicted at the ancient The qualities of John Feliks subjected to NGSS K–12 or city of Tiwanaku. They Paleolithic art do they will have no fortitude to lived in the region P A G E 9 not follow simple-to- A nostalgic return later question—and the above until c. 10,000 years organizations know this. Groups complex mainstream to Calico ago—within range of exploiting schools need to be expectations. For What the science com- dating for the site Tom Baldwin exposed. Readers are asking how instance, sophisticated munity can learn from (see Truman, p. 13). P A G E 1 1 can we get actionable fraud out animal paintings such Big Tobacco Public fraud as found in the caves Possible Pleisto- of the U.S. classroom? (p. 7). by powerful organizations of Spain and France cene-age artifact results in loss to millions were followed by sim- from Phoenix, AZ of people. However, due ple geometric motifs Ken Johnston to their extreme wealth and childlike drawings such organizations can by cultures tens of P A G E 1 2 be hard to fight. One of thousands of years Tom Baldwin—PCN Archaeological the most inspiring stories later. Contrary to the editor and long-time objectivity? on challenging powers books, this is more worker at Calico Early John Feliks abusing public trust is evidence that human Man Site since the that of Dr. Jeffrey Wigand. P A G E 1 3 intelligence does not days of Site Director 2016 marks the 20th The controversial increase through time. Dr. Louis Leakey— Anniversary of Wigand’s 40,000 year-old rope- (see Tenodi p. 19). provides an important legacy of Arthur 60 Minutes CBS interview making tool from Hohle Fels update on what has Posnansky: Part 2 revealing the tobacco Cave, Germany, joins the happened to the site David Truman industry as knowingly growing list of profound in- (see Baldwin p. 9). P A G E 1 6 making and keeping ventions, creative works, and other products and observa- 1.84 mya modern people addicted. Similar to the science commu- tions proving human bone sold nity, Big Tobacco’s tech- that Paleolithic as “not” H. sapiens niques involved withhold- people were Dr. Curtis Runnels Richard Dullum ing evidence and market- just as intelli- (MA, PhD), Professor P A G E 1 8 ing to kids. Are science gent as us— of Archaeology at Debunking Evo- CEOs prepared to stand contrary to mainstream Boston U., and ama- dogma. The amazing tool is Prop, Part 19: Links before Congress like BT? teur archaeologist, Ken Fiction—Two new Increasing control over contemporaneous with Stanton discover what novels by PC authors: John Feliks schools means it’s time to “Venus” figurines and bone it means to bring The SealEaters 20,000 P A G E 1 9 find out. Photo courtesy flutes. Images courtesy of the unexpected evidence BC Bonnye Matthews From Stone Age to of Jeffrey Wigand and discoverer, Prof. Nicholas to the dogmatically- The Shaman and the Space Age, Part 2 Smoke-Free Kids Inc. Conard, University of Tübin- fixated mainstream Cult of Ogham Ray (see Feliks, p. 8). gen (see Bradford p. 5). (see Johnston p. 11) Urbaniak (p. 6). Vesna Tenodi

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Engraved stone found in New world glacial paleosol The Flagstaff Stone offers profound information on the age and intellect of early man in the Americas, Part 1

By Jeffrey Goodman , PhD, archaeologist, geologist

Eds. Note: The figures in this Clovis-First Model, which has I found 23 feet deep in a test series adhere to the numbering the First Americans entering shaft in Flagstaff, Arizona “A grow- in Dr. Goodman’s paper. They the New World across the Ber- conducted by Dr. Julien Allaz were selected out by Dr. Good- ing num- ing Land Bridge that emerged using the electron micro- man from the originals in Dr. 1 Allaz’s 10-figure re- about 14,000 years ago. The probe (EMP) at the Depart- port. The figures used theory of the Clovis-First ment of Geosciences at the are 1–3, 6, and 10 . Model requires extremely rapid University of Colorado, pro-

changes on a number of fronts vides solid scientific evidence within just a few centuries. that the Flagstaff Stone is an In the Sept-Oct After the sea level dropped artifact that was engraved 2014 issue of and the Bering Land Bridge during glacial times long PCN , I wrote, “One emerged between Siberia and before the Bering Bridge cannot be a little bit Alaska, it is as if a whistle became available. Dr. Allaz’s pregnant. Either one was blown and Clovis sites EMP study supports the obser- is pregnant or one is The Flagstaff Stone and engravings. suddenly spread across North vations and conclusions of not.” Man was in the America in less than a few the three previous petro- Americas before centuries. In this same pe- graphic studies of the stone ber of re- the most recent ice ages or he riod, Paleo-Indian sites also by geologists at three differ- searchers was not. Putting aside the aca- suddenly spread across South ent universities. The stated demic “establishment” models … are con- America. Is this a coincidence? goal of Dr. Allaz’s study was to that are based on absent evi- Further, in this same short determine if the stone showed tradicting dence, if man was in the Ameri- period, myriad very diverse any signs of alteration, and the estab- cas during glacial times, then the cultures developed, with determine if this alteration is lishment’s artifacts he left behind should diverse physical characteris- older or younger compared not only tell us that he was refusal to tics, and genetic variations. to the grooves. Dr. Allaz’s here, but how intelligent he was. Years ago as an anthropology took two thin sections from grad student I used the Flagstaff Stone for his to quip about Clovis study. The extremely high man surviving the ice resolution and spectral identi- sheets that covered fication abilities of the electron Alaska and Canada microprobe identified the signs after crossing the of alteration of the stone from Bering Land Bridge weathering and showed that and then “racing they were younger than the down to Rio in Brazil grooves, in a way the optical to get warm.” To microscopes used in the previ- defend their interpre- ous studies could not. In other tation of the peopling words, the grooves were made of the New World, before weathering began to Fig. 1. Locations of cuts for preparation of two petrographic thin proponents of this significantly alter the stone. sections of the Flagstaff Stone and subsequent electron microprobe “Clovis-First” model The electron microprobe pro- study by Dr. Julien Allaz (see text on the following page). The study point out that there focused on the side of the stone with the more distinctive grooves. duced images to document The goal was to determine if the sample showed any signs of altera- are no sites with indis- this. The Flagstaff Stone now tion and, if so, whether older or younger than the engravings. putable artifacts that stands in opposition to pro- are clearly older than ponents of the "Clovis-First" Clovis. Proponents of this model who say that there are Fortunately, a growing num- look at and “Clovis-First” model have been no sites with indisputable arti- ber of researchers who have fairly extremely critical of pre- facts from sites that are clearly no allegiance to preconceived Clovis site contenders, and an older than Clovis. Just as Carl evaluate models of early man in the archeologist can literally put Sagan said, “the specimen is the New World are contradicting his or her career in jeopardy always right,” the Flagstaff the establishment’s refusal mounting to try to excavate or research Stone is an artifact that can to look at and fairly evaluate evidence a pre-Clovis or a glacial site. speak for itself. It can tell us the mounting evidence for where it came from, how old for early early man in the Americas. A recently completed petro- it is, approximately, when its man in the graphic study (September A number of researchers do Americas.” 2015) of the engraved stone > Cont. on page 3 not accept the establishment’s > Cont. on page 12

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Engraved stone from New World glacial paleosol (cont.)

grooves were engraved, and Dr. Allaz writes (with own following page), and the its period of burial. The stone emphasis), “Initial petro- presence of certain elements even tells us something graphic observations under provided evidence of weath- about the intelligence of the a petrographic microscope ering or alteration of the engraver. reveal two distinct domains: stone. Dr. Allaz said, “the a fresh gray core domain and mineralogy and mineral com- The Flag- an altered brownish rim do- position of the volcanic tuff… staff Stone main forming a 1-3 millimeter points to a dacitic tuff as is a thick rim, especially on the top suggested by previous geolo- brownish and bottom part of the sample gists studying this sample.” volcanic (Fig. 2 and Fig. 3 )…The tuff, ap- Dr. Allaz writes that a “striking mineralogy of the fresh core proxi- feature of the rim domain domain is 75-80% elongated mately (weathering rind), clearly visible 50-100 micrometer plagio- three only under the electron micro- clase grains.” The rim domain inches scope, is the presence of small has a similar composition with long by clay patches (10-50 microme- a color change indicating oxi- two inches ters) that appear to be mixed dation resulting from altera- wide by with remnants of the primary tion (weathering). He also said 3/8 inches minerals (plagioclase, apatite, that “detailed observation” thick. A ilminite…) and oxides (chiefly of the grooves show that the number of Fe-oxide…). Interestingly, clay alteration domain (weathering straight 1- is present both along the very rind) is truncated by the 2 millime- rim (weathering rind) of the grooves, and that the altera- ter deep sample and within the bottom tion domain lies below and to grooves of grooves, suggesting that the the sides of the grooves. Allaz occur on clay formed after the grooves Fig. 2. As per Dr. Allaz’s initial petrographic also noted that it is difficult both sides were made (e.g. Fig 10 on the microscope observations the Flagstaff Stone to estimate how long such an of the following page).” In conclu- shows “two distinct domains” One a fresh alteration domain would take stone. sion, Dr. Allaz writes, “I suggest gray core and the other an altered brownish to develop, since it depends rim about 1-3 mm thick. Right sample. After the following time sequence: on the history of the rock after much dis- deposition and this was a sub- cussion, Dr. Allaz and I de- 1. The ash is deposited ject beyond his expertise. cided to cut the sample along and the tuff is welded Fortunately, Dr. Virginia two edges shortly after deposition, Steen-McIntyre, one of the to prepare petrographers that studied the 2. A pebble detaches from two petro- Flagstaff Stone specializes in the massive tuff layer and graphic tephrochronology (volcanic suffers a first alteration that thin sec- ash), has expertise on this leads to the formation of the tions (see subject and she dealt with it 1 to 3mm alteration rim Fig 1 on in her study of the stone (see domain marked by alteration the pre- PCN #11, May-June 2011 ). of most primary minerals: ceding a. Ca-rich plagioclase page). The After Dr. Allaz did a general (labradorite) is altered to study petrographic study of the stone Na-richer plagioclase primarily using a petrographic micro- (andesine to oligoclase), dealt with scope, he focused on a more the side detailed analysis of the break- b. Ilmenite is altered to of the down of the specific minerals of hematite, stone with the stone under extremely high c. Partial breakdown/ the more magnification. Then Dr. Allaz alteration of olivine (and distinctive used an electron microprobe clinopyroxene?), grooves. equipped BSE (backscattered As stated, electron) detector for imaging, d. Hematite re-deposition at the goal of an EDS (energy dispersive the grain boundary, produc- the study spectrometer) detector for ing the brownish staining. was to qualitative analysis, and a WDS 3. Later the pebble is Fig. 3. Left sample showing the gray core determine (wavelength dispersive spec- marked with the grooves . and brownish rim domains. if the trometer) detector for quantita- 4. Finally, a second alteration sample tive analysis and X-ray element is responsible for the forma- showed any signs of alteration, mapping. The minerals of the tion of clay minerals on and if this alteration was older stone were identified by their or younger than the grooves. components ( Fig. 6 on the > Cont. on page 4

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Engraved stone from New World glacial paleosol (cont.)

and the rarer clay ob- with a spectrometer. A microprobe is served within the grooves. used to non-destructively determine Unfortunately, it remains the chemical composition of solid difficult to put a time scale materials by bombarding a small sample (down to 1-3 microns) on the two aforementioned with an electron beam, which alteration events.” causes the sample to emit x-rays at wavelengths characteristic of the Most important, Dr. Allaz elements being analyzed. Electron was able to document the microprobes can measure ele- presence of clay at the mental concentrations as low as bottom of the grooves, 10µ. The electron microprobe which speaks to the can also function like a scanning great age of the Flag- electron microscope (SEM) and staff Stone. This great obtain highly magnified secon- dary and backscattered-electron age is consistent with the images of a sample’s topogra- stone being found 23 feet phy, grains, layers and coatings. down in sediments be- lieved to be a compound 2. Clay being rarer within the soil, informally called by grooves may in part also be a result of cleaning; selective sam- geologists in the area the pling; loss of material during thin “100,000-year old soil”— section preparation/ polishing; and/ a Sangamonian or last or some of the waxy clay, with interglacial soil. Allaz’s flakes that seemed to want to curl study finding clay at the on the edges, having passed beyond bottom of the grooves the allophane weathering stage into confirms the three previ- a layer silicate of some kind, which may not be possible to directly ob- ous petrographic studies serve under the electron microprobe that made observations of unless it is a few microns in size. the grooves on the stone (Allophane is a weathering product with clay in them, indicat- of volcanic glass. Allophane is not ing great age. For exam- that organized; no peaks on x-ray ple, Dr. Ferry, a petrogra- diffraction, just a low, wide trace.) pher at Arizona State Fig. 6. Part of Dr. Allaz more detailed analysis of the stone’s minerals JEFFREY G OODMAN , PhD, is an ar- University, observed that chaeologist and geologist. He has under high magnification. Dr. Allaz used an electron microprobe equipped the undisturbed clay on BSE detector for imaging, EDS detector for qualitative analysis, and a a professional degree in Geological WDS detector for quantitative analysis and X-ray element mapping. the bottom part of the Engineering from Colorado School stone (the result of the of Mines, an M.A. in anthropology from the University of Arizona, an surface of in situ weathering) had a M.B.A from Columbia University the sam- characteristic flakey structure to it (a sort of crater pattern) Graduate School of Business, and a ple, in- PhD. in anthropology from Califor- cluding at and noted that the clay in the nia Coast University. For nearly 10 the bot- grooves also had this distinct years, Goodman was accredited by tom of the pattern. To Dr. Ferry, this the former Society of Professional groove(s) . meant that all the grooves Archaeologists (SOPA) from 1978 to 1987. Two of his four books, It is pos- with clay in them were old. American Genesis and The Genesis sible that This assessment is also consis- tent with Dr. Steen-McIntyre’s Mystery , included accounts of his the clay discovery of an early man site in started more comprehensive petro- the mountains outside of Flagstaff, forming graphic study (including field Arizona. For more information on during lab chemical tests) of the the complete story with never- the initial stone. In the general exami- before-published photographs of the excavation site and participants alteration nation section of her study (including the late Dr. Alan Bryan, (step 2 she wrote, “The grooves in question were undoubtedly Professor of Archaeology, Univer- above), sity of Alberta) see Potential of the which made before the waxy clay Flagstaff Stone in the search for would coating was formed.” early man in the Americas , PCN #31, September-October 2014, the explain To be continued in Part 2… the largest 5th Anniversary Issue. See also, The Flagstaff Stone: A Paleo-Indian patches Endnotes engraved stone from Flagstaff, observed 1. An electron microprobe (EMP), Arizona , PCN #11, May-June 2011. Fig. 10. Clay is present both along the rim outside or electron probe microanalyzer and within the grooves, suggesting that the of the (EPMA)), works similarly to a scan- E-mail: Jeffrey Goodman clay formed after the grooves were made. grooves, ning electron microscope combined

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Virginia Steen-McIntyre challenging evidence regard- After 42 issues of PCN and and an important insight ing human prehistory. As pub- over 800 pages we continue behind PCN’s continuity lished by Michael Cremo, Vir- to provide proof that the ginia described it in a letter to mainstream’s dogma regard- As mentioned in a recent group the Associate Editor of the ing early humans and prehis- mailing, there have been journal Quaternary Research tory is not based on the col- many thoughtful ideas sent explaining what she “I didn’t to us by our readers in 2016 perceived as a scien- realize the showing that they understand tist. Her observation full signifi- the knowledge importance of foreshadowed one cance of getting suppressed information of PC’s focal points about human prehistory out to very clearly: our dates the public. Now that we have back in firmly established the fact that The problem as I suppression is occurring there see it is much bigger 1973, nor than Hueyatlaco. It how deeply is some interest in what ex- actly is behind it all. This is a concerns the ma- woven crucial time to ask because nipulation of scien- into our Americans are being increas- tific thought through ingly bulldozed by the science the suppression of thought the ‘Enigmatic Data,’ current community with human origin myths now right in the middle data that challenges theory of of our educational system. With the prevailing mode human this kind of control it is easy of thinking. Hueyat- to dupe the masses. laco certainly does evolution that! Not being an has be- Our readers have also ex- anthropologist, I come. Our pressed frustration as they didn’t realize the full work at realize that the suppression significance of our of evidence that would give dates back in 1973, Fig.1. Top: 40,000-year old rope-making Hueyatlaco them a different view of reality nor how deeply tool, Hohle Fels, Germany demonstrating human intelligence no different from that of has been is “deliberate.” It is how old- woven into our modern people. Bottom: Facsimile showing rejected by school brainwashing works: thought the current how the tool was used to make rope, Univer- most ar- Continually pump in what you theory of human sity of Liege. Images courtesy of the discov- want your victims to know evolution has be- erer, Professor Nicholas Conard, University of chaeolo- while blocking what you don’t come. Our work at Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. gists be- want them to know. As hard to Hueyatlaco has cause it believe as it may seem, Vir- been rejected by most ar- lective evidence but only the contradicts ginia already identified a single chaeologists because it con- parts they permit the public root cause of the suppression tradicts that theory, period. that the- to see. Paleolithic people in 1981. To make this point, we were not “ape-men.” Evi- ory, pe- reproduce an excerpt from our And in an interview originally slated for publication in Harper’s dence shows they were just riod.” July 7, 2016 mailing which also as intelligent as we are today. serves as a reminder that the Magazine about maverick sci- –Virginia Steen- Pleistocene Coalition was not entists (1997) but never pub- Terry Bradford, PhD, sent McIntyre, PhD, formed to be a standard ar- lished until reworked into an more game-changing news volcanic ash chaeology group echoing main- article called “What’s Wrong confirming that early humans specialist stream news but rather to chal- with Science” ( Midwestern were just as intelligent as we lenge a science community Epigraphic Journal Vol.16, are today. A 40,000-year old which has gone astray by #1, 2002), Virginia explained “rope-making tool”—a carefully manipulating the past. Main- the importance of confronting carved well-preserved piece of stream ideologies are being sold a science community which is mammoth ivory (Fig. 1 )—was to the public as fact. The value increasingly ignoring conflict- recently recovered from Hohle of science that depends upon ing evidence in order to pro- Fels Cave, in southwestern propaganda is not true science: mote a single idea: Germany—in layers dated to We must somehow reverse the base of the Aurignacian age “In 1981, many years prior to (N.J. Conard & M. Malina. Außer- the Pleistocene Coalition, PC an alarming trend that has appeared in the research gewöhnliche neue Funde aus den founding member, Dr. Virginia aurignacienzeitlichen Schichten vom community today, a trend Steen-McIntyre (originally Hohle Fels bei Schelklingen. Ar- with the USGS as a physical towards ‘feel good’ science, chäologische Ausgrabungen in Ba- science technician) identified where facts no longer count den-Württemberg 2016, pp. 61-66). what was the ultimate force if they question a politically behind the suppression of correct world view.” > Cont. on page 6

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Mainstream science, commit- 15,000 to 20,000 years research on Native American ted to Darwin’s idea that hu- ago, they had to have come rock art, especially as re- man mental capabilities must along the coast in boats.” lated to archaeo-astronomy. “of necessity” have been added Man may very well have come He has also played a major by gradation must continue to to this continent by boat. role in documenting and rais- have their objectivity ques- However there have been five ing concerns for the accelerat- tioned if they claim such ice ages in the last half million ing vandalism, destruction and finds as the rope-making years. They resulted in four theft of Native American rock tool represent anything other opportunities for man to art bringing state representa- other than completely mod- have walked across the Bering tives to rock art sites in hopes ern-level intelligence. The Land Bridge and populate this of aiding in the protection of special tool is another vin- continent. Homo erectus found what he calls “sacred art” sites. dication of a basic PC tenet his way from Java to Britain, In 2006, Urbaniak published a that while populations and from Africa to Siberia, and book called Anasazi of South- social products may change everywhere in between (see, west Utah: The Dance of Light through time actual human for instance, my prior article, and Shadow . Urbaniak’s recent abilities remain the same. The Pleistocene’s most well- venture into fiction is a side- branch off of his field research. Direct links to traveled creature , PCN #24, 16,000-year old arti- It was inspired by his many recent articles PCN July-August 2013). He could facts discovered at findings in SW Utah and the #41, May-June 2016: have found his way across the Gault site, Texas Arizona strip which appear to Bering Land Bridge during one Megaliths in Delhi- show Celtic Ogham writing for -Tom Baldwin of the earlier ice ages as well. Aravallis-System, India which he has collected an ex- Evidence for earlier crossings Some interesting findings tremely large amount of cir- “They” used can be found at the Calico Early from the Gault Archaeologi- cumstantial evidence over the stalagmites to build Man Site in California, and cal site (about an hour north years. Urbaniak explains: “This deep-cave structures the Hueyatlaco site in Mexico. of Austin, Texas) were re- is a very controversial sub- Member news and cently presented at the Plains ject area and for other info Two PC members Anthropological Conference publish new fiction this reason I have Gobekli legacy by Dr. D. Clark Wemecke. He been reluctant to announced that archaeolo- The SealEaters publish it in any Smithsonian 20,000 BC challenged at traveling gists working the site had form. However, I propaganda show found a new tool layer 2016. Long-time PC mem- recently realized that lay below an already ber and fiction author Bon- it would make a Gobekli Tepe: hunter- well known strata of Clovis nye Matthews (Alaska) has great prehistoric gatherer’s architectural tools. They have already novel based on world map just published the final book found ninety some tools in a 5-part award-winning actual findings. Debunking evo. prop., that they classify as blades series called Winds of Quick overview: Pt 18 , Stratigraphic and bifaces as well as thou- Change . The new book is Great Eagle, an Column: Devonan sands of flakes left over from The SealEaters 20,000 BC . ancestral Puebloan From Stone Age to tool making. The tools have shaman, follows “Winds of Change by Bon- Space Age, Part 1 been dated as approximately the bread crumbs 16,000 years old, which nye Matthews is an excep- (corn crumbs), to would predate Clovis tools tionally and impressively unravel the story by several thousand years. researched five volume of a Celtic visitation series of prehistoric novels in the distant past. This discovery flies in the face focused upon a theme of the The shaman’s of North American archaeologi- Peopling of the Americas. ” exciting explora- cal dogma going back decades –James A. Cox, Editor-in-Chief, tions include his migration to that—until recently— Midwest Books Review, April Florida. The journey culminates demanded that the first hu- 2016. (Cox studied the peopling in an unexpected ending. mans on this continent were of the Americas for 30 years.) those of the Clovis Culture. Bonnye Matthews’ website: Avid PCN reader, friend, However, Dr. Wemecke stated, www.booksbybonnye.com and mentor passes away “The most important take- The Shaman and the Cult Professor of music theory, away is that people were in of Ogham music history, and technol- the New World much earlier ogy; mentor and friend; Dr. than we used to believe.” 2016. Long-time PC member and writer, Ray Urbaniak, is Bradley Bloom, passed away He goes on to point out: an engineer by education and June 6, 2016, in Washington “It was not possible to walk profession; however, he is an State. In 1996, Brad was here until much later, with artist and passionate amateur collaborator with J. Feliks on 3-mile-high glaciers in the archeologist at heart with a multimedia theatre produc- way. If people got here many years of systematic field tion about prehistoric people.

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Exposed psychological manipulation in Florida Common Core could inspire children to play a bigger role in fighting corrupt U.S. education

By John Feliks

“I am not comfortable “These agreements can be over any cultural group that signing something like this. mutual… or they can be unilat- has begun to assimilate its I have the right to talk to eral… where only the receiving ideology. Most of the already- “I am not my parents about any and party becomes obligated to affected groups have no idea comfortable everything related to maintain secrecy. … The crea- what is going on including the signing school and my education.” tion of a confidential agree- constant coercion of younger ment is really the creation of a and younger students. – 9-year old Sydney Smoot in a something confidential relationship.” –ibid Things like this are what the speech to the Hernando County like this. Florida School Board about Com- “It is my opinion that you science community employ- I have the mon Core-related testing ( Fig. 1 ) should always get the agree- ing techniques of intimida- ment in writing… even if tion depends upon. However, you need to water it their tactics are slowly being down a little to get a sig- brought to light, for example: nature.” –ibid “In a remarkable admission, the former director of the Above is lawyer perspective. Race to the Top (RttT) com- Now consider the implica- petitive grant program and tions of forcing children to chief of staff to U.S. Education sign such things from the Secretary Arne Duncan says perspective of institutional psychological manipulation. the federal government For those who have never ‘forced’ full support for… Com- studied ‘cults’ one of the mon Core... from each state most basic tools of manipu- by requiring [them to] sign off lation is that of isolating the on the grant application.” Fig. 1. 4th-grader Sydney Smoot speaking out against Common individual, i.e. keeping the –Feds Admit U.S. Education De- Core-based intellectual abuse and underhanded education. intended victim away from partment ‘Forced’ States To Ac- receiving any concerned cept Common Core From Its Start. September 15, 2015. Breitbart.com right to talk As regularly explained in PCN , input regarding what the cult to my par- the U.S. Education System— is attempting to do. This in- Can 4th grade students under- now being aggressively influ- cludes from family and friends. stand corruption like this? Syd- ents about enced through legislation by What the public doesn’t real- ney Smoot is proof that they any and the vested interests of pow- ize is that when it comes to can. Young people of America, erful non-profit science or- everything Common Core and the Next we live in intellectually op- ganizations such as AAAS—is related to Generation Science Standards pressive times. If you have increasingly proving it can- we are dealing with science the ability, consider following school and not be trusted to honorably fraud hidden deep behind-the- Sydney. Don’t waste time with my educa- teach American children. scenes in a systematically- Student Council bickering over tion.” Having kids sign confidenti- implemented, now 14-year- what color to paint the school ality agreements in captive long, ideological catechism hallways because your future – 9-year old Syd- autonomy and freedoms are ney Smoot, in a audience U.S. public schools (Pre -K–12) interwoven with speech to Hernando should be a red flag that there normal science to conceal it. now being imminently threat- County Florida is something wrong and to They are trying to get the kids ened by U.S. legislators and School Board. start snapping dazed parents early for ease of manipulating pressure groups that do not and other U.S. citizens out of have your best interests in them during their formative their complacency. Consider years before they have had mind. Start flooding your the following definition: any chance of developing local school boards with let- critical thinking skills. More ters and personal appear- “A Confidentiality Agreement… ances; and be fully confident also known as non-disclosure insidiously, their tendrils extend much farther into that there is plenty of factual agreement or NDA, is… a evidence to back you up. contract between two or more non-scientific areas by way parties where the subject of of attaching origin myths “I felt proud of myself for the agreement is a promise imposed as “fact” to control taking a stand and standing that information conveyed will future personal and cultural up for all the students who be maintained in secrecy.” identities. As noted in PCN #41 had to take this FSA test.” (p. 19), this gives the sci- –Gene Quinn, Patent Attorney, Editor ence community easy control –Sydney Smoot, Bay News 9 and founder of IPWatchdog.com ).

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What mainstream science can learn from Big Tobacco, Part 1

By John Feliks

“Isn’t it possible to file a tactic of These and suit on behalf of the pub- pressure other ques- lic against the teaching groups mis- tions will be of blatantly false mate- using public explored. rial in public schools?” trust in the We will hear ‘name’ of from experts –A concerned PCN reader science. in their own As published in 42 issues of words in- What do we PCN (since October 2009), cluding lead- do as a our mission has been to chal- ing science “Of the 7 country Fig. 1. The “7 CEOs of Big Tobacco” lenge an increasingly aggres- CEOs dem- CEOs that when sci- standing before the 1994 Congress sive science community which onstrating ence fraud, Ethics Committee swearing under testified is now not only manipulating oath that they believed nicotine and that they is at the before U.S. legislation influencing tobacco were neither bad for you know well very top? beliefs about human origins nor addictive. Once news broke that what is right Congress We got a but is also blocking evidence Big Tobacco was deliberately making but wind up that nico- sense of the cigarettes more addictive—by way that would potentially give doing the problem in of what CBS regards as their most tine was U.S. citizens a different view opposite. We the 1990s important 60 Minutes story, the not addic- of reality. We have been doing are not only when Big interview with Tobacco insider Dr. this primarily through bringing Jeffrey Wigand—the world began to talking about tive, ‘all 7 Tobacco was censored and suppressed take notice. Up to that point few individual faced sued for evidence regarding Paleolithic were convinced to quit smoking. Of scientists or $300 billion . charges of people and evidence from the 7 CEOs that testified before teachers but It was dem- Congress that nicotine was not ad- perjury the fossil record to the pub- massive onstrated dictive, all 7 faced charges of per- lic. Already-debunked ideas vested inter- and re- that they jury and resigned from the industry. being called “scientific” are est organiza- signed had been Photo: Courtesy of Jeffrey Wigand, now affecting entire cultures PhD, and Smoke-Free Kids Inc . tions at- knowingly from the worldwide. Science organiza- tempting to deceiving industry.” tions which are concealing set up a and controlling the public via important evidence need to future safety net for them- chemical addiction ( Fig. 1 ). be called to task regarding selves via control of K–12 the actual motives behind In this series, the current education. Big Tobacco set what they are doing. flood of ideological social up its safety net of future changes being imposed on addicts by marketing to kids; It is finally becoming better the American people through and the power the science known that suppression of legislation will be compared community is gaining simi- evidence and the spreading of to the nature and eventual larly is potentially more dan- ideology as fact (not only to downfall of Big Tobacco. gerous. If allowed to continue adults but to younger and ‘Physical health damage’ was on this path it will eventually younger children trapped in easy to measure which is why have its finger on the beliefs captive-audience classrooms) the tobacco industry was able of every cultural group in the is indeed part of the main- to be sued for billions of dol- world. This needs to be inves- stream science community. lars. But how do you measure tigated before complacency The focus of claims can be ‘mental health damage’ such against such power becomes shown to be related to gain- as is being inflicted on children the international norm. ing control over people’s be- being held back? How do you liefs about what it means to JOHN F ELIKS has specialized in the measure the loss of critical be human, who they are, and study of early human cognition thinking when a child’s mind for 20 years providing evidence where they came from. Does is psychologically manipulated that human cognition does not an agenda controlling what during their formative years evolve. Earlier, his focus was on people believe about such to accept the evolution myth the invertebrate fossil record important topics sound like it studying fossils in the field as fact? How do you meas- belongs in the U.S classroom? across the U.S. and Ontario, as ure damage to rational Anyone taught to think for well as studying many of the autonomy or the ability of themselves should be able to classic texts such as the Treatise children to come to rational on Invertebrate Paleontology . see that blocking conflicting conclusions when systematic Feliks and a group of scientists evidence in order to manipu- duping prevents them from and other researchers formed late the beliefs of children is seeing evidence objectively? >the Cont. Pleistocene on page Coalition 12 in 2009.

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A nostalgic return to Calico By Tom Baldwin

at the time and felt an- All three believed the site to other meeting a month be the oldest in the United was too much). Still, if I States at something over had, I might have been 200,000 years. This flew in able to stay some of the the face of the Archaeologi- troubles that have cal Establishment’s long-held plagued the site over Clovis theory that had man the last decade. entering the New World only some 12,000–13,000 years First, the Master Pits ago. However these original were closed by the Cali- site directors were willing to, fornia Bureau of Land as Fred put it, go where the Management (BLM), science led them , which was declaring them a not down the rabbit hole of “Confined Space.” This the Clovis-Firsters. was a travesty and any- Fig. 1. The author at Calico Early Man Site, Barstow, California, one ever involved with With the end of Fred’s tenure May 2016, where I discovered a very nice worked flake. It OSHA knows the ar- came a new site director showed a striking platform, bulb scar and waves of percussion. It chaeological pits did not who does not hold to an old was very obviously man made. fit the definition of a date for Calico. People in the “Confined Space.” To Friends of Calico, volunteers “Up to Four months ago I de- my knowledge in the forty and avocational archaeolo- years those pits were gists like myself, were not that point cided to make the long trip from my home in worked, nobody ever sus- able to stand up to the Calico had Utah back to the Calico tained an injury that was pit mainstream professionals been Early Man Site for a dig related, or had something fall and so they went along with blessed weekend. (For those inter- from above on them. This is the idea of a new, more re- because nothing comes loose cent date for the site. with great ested, dig weekends are the 1st weekend of the month, on its own. The soil in the pit Site Direc- is so hard that everything has Fourth, the Great Recession October through May, it be- ate up most of the money the tors in the ing too hot to dig in the to be removed with a ham- mer and awl. site had been endowed with persons of summer months. For more making further scientific date Dr. Louis information visit http:// Second, the popular site testing harder to pay for. www.meetup.com/Friends-of- director, Fred Budinger, was Leakey, Calico-Early-Man-Site/ .) removed. I did not follow the Fifth, in an endeavor to make Ruth Dee finds ‘more acceptable’ to the I moved from Southern Cali- details of this matter too Archaeological Establish- Simpson, fornia to Utah ten and a half closely. (I liked people on ment, a winnowing of the and Fred years ago. Until I made that both sides of the issue and I lithic collection took place move I was a regular volun- am not the greatest fan of Budinger. wherein a large number of teer worker at the Calico Early politics that blows things out All three artifacts were discarded. Man Site for about 20 years. of proportion. Suffice to say Some claim this was criminal believed It is located in the Mojave I do not believe any wrong- in that the collection belongs the site to Desert along the shore of the doing took place. There were to the people of the United Pleistocene’s Lake Manix just divided factions and be the old- States and is just curated by (one of hundreds of lakes people picked sides accord- est in the San Bernardino County Mu- that filled the Great Basin ing to their own understating seum. To my knowledge, the United during that epoch) near the of the circumstances at the BLM that owns the land the States at modern-day town of Yermo. time. Still, there was a part- site is on—and thus the arti- something ing of ways that left residual I now wish that I had made negative feelings behind.) facts found there—did not over the extra effort to stay a authorize this winnowing. regular at the site and to Third, up to that point Calico 200,000 I am especially aware of what have heeded the many re- had been blessed with great years.” this winnowing means as I quests to join the Friends of Site Directors in the persons contributed a lot to that col- Calico’s board (I was a mem- of Dr. Louis Leakey, Ruth Dee ber of my local school board Simpson, and Fred Budinger. > Cont. on page 910

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A nostalgic return to Calico (cont.)

lection in my over twenty- its distance from the Northeast light. Once the rock cools plus years of volunteer work Corner were also recorded then again it is made into a tool. at Calico. We followed you would have three points This tool is eventually lost or George Carter’s maxim that and could easily determine discarded and becomes buried anything which had been its exact location in the pit. in the soil. Sitting there in the “In an en- altered by a human was an earth it begins collecting ra- artifact. Thus, we did not • The location of the pit deavor to diation once more. The longer throw away anything that we now being dug seems to it sits the more radiation is make finds thought man made including have been selected for collected. Then when it is dug flakes and ease of access and not its up thousands of years later by debitage. archaeological potential. As an archaeologist it can be sent mentioned above, the soil in off for thermoluminescence Now the closed Master Pits is rock testing. In a lab the rock is things hard. The soil in the present again heated and any radiation have pits is soft enough to be re- collected over the time since changed. moved with a brush. This the stone was first heated is Working in indicates to me it just recently again given off in the form of a pit my washed down in the form of light. This time, however, the Saturday erosion from the hillside above amount of light given off is at the site it. The archaeological value of carefully measured. The more (see Fig. 1 things dug up in this pit thus light the longer the time since on prior become negligible in that they the stone was last heated. page), I Fig. 2. Those who come to Calico now do are in essence surface finds. Assuming the heat treating of discovered so only to learn how excavation work is the original stone and the mak- done and are not actually involved in any a very nice On the bright side, excellent ing of it into a tool were roughly scientific research. Photo: Tom Baldwin. flake. It people are still interested in coincidental we can thus deter- showed a the site and willing to give of mine the age of the tool. ‘more ac- striking platform, bulb scar their time and efforts to ceptable’ ... and waves of percussion. It keep it open and operating. The Friends of Calico Early a winnow- was very obviously man made. I was also very encouraged Man Site sent the tools off for But it was not a tool, just a testing about a year ago. ing of the to learn that a sample of five flake; so it was discarded. (I believe that is the num- They have not heard back lithic col- from the testing lab yet, but So then, despite the decade ber) artifacts that appear to hope to within a month or so. lection took of setbacks enumerated have been heat-treated have I hope I can report then that place above, things are still pro- been sent off for thermolu- an early date for the site has gressing at the Early Man minescence testing. wherein a once more been indicated. Site—just not as I might wish large num- Ancient man learned that they were. For instance: heating cherts and other lithic ber of arti- TOM B ALDWIN is an award-winning facts were • Digging now being done materials changed the stone author, educator, and amateur and made knapping and the archaeologist living in Utah. He discarded. seems to be more for edu- cation than scientific re- removal of long thin flakes has also worked as a successful ... To my search. The current site direc- much easier. They just knew newspaper columnist. Baldwin has been actively involved with knowledge, tor is not interested in reopen- what worked. We modern men have determined that the Friends of Calico (maintaining ing the master pits or obtaining the controversial Early Man Site the BLM … heating the stone to above did not au- new artifacts . That means peo- in Barstow, California) since the ple who come to dig do so only 500° C changes its crystalline early days when famed anthro- thorize this to learn how it is done, but are structure making it less diffi- pologist Dr. Louis Leakey was the winnow- not involved in actual scientific cult to knap by reducing the site’s excavation Director (Calico research. However, even that point-tensile strength of many is the only site in the Western ing.” Hemisphere which was excavated is not being done well ( Fig. 2 ). varieties of micro-crystalline quartz, including chert, which by Leakey). Baldwin’s recent book, The Evening and the Morning , • In Figs. 1–2 you can see that was a favorite of the early is an entertaining fictional the digging is not being done men that lived around Calico. story based on the true story of as usual, there being walls Calico. Apart from being one of This heating of the stone also left between the squares. the core editors of Pleistocene gives it a waxy look. That is Coalition News, Baldwin has pub- • When something notewor- also true of tools made from lished many prior articles in PCN thy is found it is not prop- heat-treated material and focusing on Calico, early man in erly triangulated. Only its makes them easy to spot. the Americas, and Homo erectus . depth, and distance from the All of Baldwin’s articles published Northwest Corner is re- As I understand it, this heat- ing not only makes the rock in Pleistocene Coalition News can corded. This means it could be found at the following link: have been found anywhere easier to work, it also forces along an arc in the square. If out radiation trapped in the http://pleistocenecoalition.com/ rock. It exits in the form of index.htm#tom_baldwin

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Avocational archaeology

Possible Pleistocene-age artifact from Phoenix, Arizona

By Ken Johnston

In 2012 Ken Stanton, an quarters of the flake amateur geo-archaeologist, the other face. scars. identified suspected stone Most of one Some “Upon tools exposed in a sus- lateral edge fresh subse- pected Pleistocene ce- was uncov- chips quent mented breccia or debris ered, and are visi- flow in Phoenix, Arizona. about half of ble on exami- the other edge. the dis- nation, To back up his own observa- tal end tion Ken has had a favorable The butt re- both of the opinion from an archaeologist mains covered tool, faces with “Old World” experience in carbonate. Fig. 1. The proposed Pleistocene-age which and the regarding the artfactual nature Upon subse- artifact described by Dr. Curtis Run- was not of his sample. What follows nels of Boston University. exposed quent exami- covered is a description of the sample by the portions by Dr. Curtis Runnels (MA, nation, both of the faces and the exposed por- carbonate. They appear to PhD), Professor of Archae- be fresh breaks and may lateral ology at Boston University: tions of the lateral edges were ob- have edges Description served to been were ob- have been created A6553 [ Fig. 1 ] is a biface served shaped by near to, (a chopping tool or or at the to have hard- cleaver) or flake core of hammer time the been white vein quartz. percussion. speci- men was shaped The artifact is 13.23 cm in Invasive col- by hard- maximum length and 10.96 flake re- lected. cm in maximum width. The movals (3- hammer The maximum thickness at the 5 cm in percus- exposed proximal end (“butt”) is length) quartz sion.” 10.45 cm. The artifact has were used Fig. 2. The carbonate encrustation visible in two flat faces, a squarish to flatten used for dating the sample via uranium –Curtis Run- these butt, and two lateral edges. the faces series which produced a result of c. nel, PhD, 38,000–40,000 years BP. small From the squarish butt the and shape Professor of chips is a piece thins to a straight, the Archaeology, bright white color. It readily transverse distal end. One straight, transverse distal Boston Uni- reflects light. The flake lateral edge is straight, end of the piece. Abrupt versity removals on the faces and and the other is sinuous. flake removals (scars are lateral edges, by contrast, The overall shape of the 2-3 cm in length) were are dull in appearance, or artifact is that of a wedge. used to shape the lateral edges. The flake removals at least less light-reflective, Upon initial examination, originate from the edges of and appear to have been most of the surface of the the tool, as is evident from altered by exposure to the artifact was observed to be the remaining negative elements when on the sur- covered with a thick de- bulbs of percussion, which face or by contact with the posit of calcium carbonate are aligned along the mar- surrounding matrix after (CaCO3). After dating assays gins of the tool. There are burial (“patinated”). The were completed, this carbon- multiple sub-parallel re- flake removals on the faces ate deposit was partially re- movals, more than five for and lateral edges may have moved with HCl and a dental each face and lateral edge. been created as the result tool. One face was uncovered of one knapping event, as The carbonate crust covers completely along with three > Cont. on page 12

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Possible Pleistocene artifact from Phoenix, AZ (cont.)

Avocational ar- they appear to have be- because of a carbonate accu- by mainstream archaeology chaeology is a come uniformly patinated to mulation on the worked sur- and Ken continues his efforts special section of the depth faces of the tool ( Fig. 2 ). to call attention to the impor- of a few After testing in 2014, dating tant implications of his find. millime- of the carbonate places a ters (to minimum date on the tool as Addendum: See Fig. 3 and judge by it may have existed for Fig. 4 for the find location of the pat- many years before the car- the artifact. ina ex- bonate began to accumulate: posed by “Hi Ken, I have just calcu- Ken Johnston, one of the primary the fresh researchers in the topic of “figure lated dates for 2 small sam- breaks stones,” lives on Buckeye Lake in on the ples taken from the carbon- Hebron, Ohio. He has a B.A. from Fig. 3. Debris-flow find location of the dated distal ate-coating on the worked Ohio State University in Communi- artifact in the Phoenix, Arizona, region. end) face of sample A6553. cation, including cultural anthro- pology coursework. He is now a before The samples yield U-series self-employed software quality the car- dates of about 38 and 40 and testing analyst. He is a mem- bonate ka! The carbonate is some- ber of the Flint Ridge chapter of was de- what impure, and the dates the Ohio Archaeological Society as posited required corrections of 6-8 well as the American Society for Amateur Archaeology. Johnston over ka due to the impurities. them. received over one hundred accla- Nonetheless, I think the mations from like-minded ama- Curtis dates are accurate within teurs in response to his locally Runnels, a few thousand years. published 2007 paper, Forsaken MA, PhD, Artifacts: Crude Stone Tools . Best, Warren Johnston has three prior articles in Fig. 4. Ken Stanton where the artifact was Professor Pleistocene Coalition News : Pair of discovered in situ . of Archae- Warren Sharp ology De- eyes or pareidolia? PCN #9, Jan- Feb 2011; ‘Figure stones,’ what to partment Berkeley Geochronology PCN started by Dr. do with them? , PCN #13, Septem- Boston University 675 Common- Center, 2455 Ridge Rd., Virginia Steen- wealth Avenue Boston MA 02215 ber-October 2011; and Creators of Berkeley, CA 94709” McIntyre to en- widespread “hashtag” cave art are Additionally, Ken was able to not so easily identified , PCN #31, courage amateur Ken Stanton’s discovery of a determine his sample artifact September-October 2014. archaeologists. c. 38,000 year old stone tool was a candidate for uranium in America has been ignored Website: http:// series dating portablerockart.blogspot.com/

Archaeological While reading Dr. Gargett’s nature-made —meticulously objectivity? comments I noted his similar photographed and cataloged Dr. Robert H. follow-the-herd jab at the by PC founding member ar- Gargett, known late Dr. Louis Leakey regard- chaeologist Chris Hardaker— to his blog ing Calico. Dr. Gargett per- with a virtually identical blade followers as the petuates the same claim from the famous Upper Paleo- “Subversive about Calico as do nearly all lithic site of Brassempouy Archaeologist,” with standard anthropology France 22,000–29,000 years was quick to educations characterized by a old (Fig. 1 , jf ). Readers can publish conde- dogmatically-embedded belief evaluate for themselves the scending re- that there were no early hu- objectivity of experts who marks regard- mans in the Americas. An- claim Calico specimens are ing Stanton thropologists trained this way “made by nature” (see Re- and Runnel are unable to see conflicting viving the Calico of Louis back in 2012 evidence even when it is star- Leakey, Part 3 , PCN #39, calling them ing them straight in the face. Jan-Feb 2016). Dr. Leakey names such as Since they already “know” was confident in the artifacts “daft” and there were no early people in from Calico despite persis- Fig. 1. Top: Five views of a Calico “credulous.” the Americas then what look tent attempts by mainstream stone blade (Artifact #16605) called a This is standard like manmade tools must be archaeologists to denounce “geofact” by predisposed evolutionary propaganda “geofacts” created by nature. them as “geofacts.” Remem- archaeologists compared with Bottom: technique; See This is why I reproduce again ber, as demonstrated in 42 an identical Upper Paleolithic stone blade from Brassempouy, France. Debunking a comparison between a Cal- issues of PCN , we are dealing Evolutionary ico blade that no archaeolo- with archaeologists who are Propaganda, Part 1 (or in html ). gist worth their salt would call completely predisposed. –jf

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The controversial legacy of Arthur Posnansky, the half-forgotten pioneer of Andean archaeology Part 2

By David Truman , ancient civilization researcher

In Part 1 ( PCN #39, Younger Dryas, be- March-April 2016), I in- tween about 9,500 BC troduced the Austrian- and 9,000 BC. It was born Bolivian archae- one of the many spe- ologist Arthur Pos- cies of large animals, or nansky, 1873–1946 megafauna, that had (Fig. 1), well-known for become extinct at this his lifetime of work and time. Recent analysis of controversial ideas sur- the structure of Toxo- rounding the ancient site don leg bones indicates of Tiwanaku or Tiahua- that they preferred naco. As noted in the arti- drier environments, cle, Posnansky remains a suggesting that the Fig. 1. Arthur Posnansky, considered rather ambiguous figure in stratum in question by many to be the Father of Bolivian contemporary Bolivian soci- may have dated from archaeology; Wikimedia Commons. “Pos- ety. Although hailed as the earlier than the very father of Bolivian archae- end of the Pleisto- nansky ology his findings and theo- cene. 10 ing so, he posed a question identified ries are regularly either ig- that modern researchers what he nored or dismissed. The re- Relief carvings of overlook: Why do only some megafauna? thought sult of this treatment is that of Tiwanaku’s most of the evidence Pos- Posnansky representa- may have nansky uncovered is ex- tions of felines been re- identified what cluded from archaeological he thought display unusu- lief carv- syllabuses. See Part 1 for may have ally large ca- ings of details. In this article, I will been relief nine teeth? It discuss Posnansky’s ideas carvings of is widely ac- Pleisto- about Pleistocene mammals cepted that cene ani- Pleistocene at Tiwanaku and the contro- animals on the the puma mals on versies surrounding the dat- walls and played a cen- ing of the famous site. tral role in the walls many stone Fig. 2. Skull and fangs of the gateways of shamanism at and many When Posnansky excavated saber-toothed cat, Smilodon Tiwanaku, so Tiwanaku. He populator . Arthur Posnansky stone beneath Tiwanaku’s Akapana the answer to Pyramid, he found a strange- wondered if believed that Smilodon in styl- gateways ized form was depicted in en- this question looking skull, along with some of the of Ti- carvings— gravings at Tiwanaku. S. popu- may be ethno- fragments of a human skele- lator in South America is the graphic, 9 which are now wanaku.” ton. He described the skull largest known felid being rather than as being “fossilized,” generally con- nearly 4 feet tall and weighing sidered to be zoological. “deformed,” and of great up to 880 lbs. It died out only Even if the antiquity. This was because stylized repre- 10,000 years ago. Image: Wikimedia Commons. answer, how- it was discovered deep be- sentations of pumas—might ever, is that neath the Pyramid. He iden- they are not tified its geological stratum actually have depicted memories of a genus of large stylized portrayals of saber- as being the same as one in toothed cats, its investiga- which a Toxodon skull had Pleistocene cat called Smilo- don characterized by its large tion would generate a line of been found. Toxodons were enquiry that could further saber-like teeth ( Fig. 2 ). 11 large hoofed mammals that enrich our knowledge of this Smilodon is known to have lived in South America until enigmatic site. the final warming that preyed on camelids in west- 12 marked the end of the ern South America. In do- > Cont. on page 14

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Controversial legacy of Arthur Posnansky (cont.)

The taboo of astronomical particular heavenly body— the obliquity of the ecliptic. He dating usually but not always the also knew that documents sun—at significant astronomi- called the Nautical Almanac If he is remembered at all cal events, such as solstices and the Astronomical today, Arthur Posnansky is and equinoxes. He then vis- Ephemeris 14 correlated the famous for variations in the polemic the angles of that sur- the Earth’s rounds his tilt with par- “When Pos- astronomical ticular dates nansky ex- dating of in the past. Tiwanaku at cavated (The Earth’s 15,000 BC. beneath axial tilt It is not just shifts be- Tiwanaku’s that this tween 22° 6' Akapana date is far and 24° 30' too early to Pyramid, over a cycle fit the con- he found a of 41,040 ventional years and strange- paradigm, the angle is looking but it im- currently plies the skull, along decreasing). possession with frag- Lockyer pub- of a sophis- lished his ments of a ticated un- findings in human derstanding The Dawn of of the heav- skeleton. Astronomy , a ens Fig. 3. The Kalasasaya Temple at Tiwanaku. Photo: David Truman. ... He iden- book that amongst drew violent tified its those who constructed Ti- ited the temple he wished to opposition from many archae- geological wanaku. His dating therefore date, at for example the sol- ologists. He replied to this by challenges many current stratum as stice, and measured a particu- stating that he wished that assumptions about the intel- being the lar azimuth from that location. archaeologists would learn lectual and technological same as For reasons of simplicity, I just a little about astron- capabilities of the inhabi- 15 one in shall refer only to the sun’s omy. tants of the Andes at the end solstice azimuths in the para- which a of the Pleistocene. Above all, graphs that follow. In order to date the Kalasa- Toxodon Posnansky employed a saya Temple at Tiwanaku methodology of astronomical Lockyer noticed that there skull had (Fig. 3 ), Posnansky had dating pioneered by Sir Nor- was invariably a discrepancy used the same basic meth- 13 been man Lockyer that is still between the orientation of the odology as Lockyer. He did found.” viewed with suspicion in temple in question and, for so by measuring the devia- some quarters [Eds. Note: example, the sun’s azimuth at tion in the position of the Lockyer was the founder and the summer solstice sunrise. eastern cornerstones of the first editor of the journal He reasoned that the temple Temple from the azimuth of Nature and discoverer of the he was investigating would the solstice sunrises there. gas helium]. have originally been built to The resulting date of 15,000 align with the solstice sunrise. years BC raised such furor Lockyer had decided to meas- Hence, the difference between ure the azimuths of heavenly amongst some archaeolo- the sun’s current azimuth and gists that a team of astrono- bodies, as they rose and set the angle at which the temple over the horizon, in order to mers was dispatched from was orientated could provide Germany to Bolivia. They calculate the construction him with a measure of the dates of numerous temples in worked for three months to time that had elapsed since re-calculate the date. In the Egypt and Greece. (A heav- the temple’s construction. As enly body’s azimuth is simply end, they dated the Temple a physicist and astronomer, at 9,300 BC. Posnansky’s the angle at which it rises or Lockyer knew that changes in sets, expressed as the num- critics persisted in urging the sun’s azimuth were them to reduce the site’s age ber of degrees that it lies off caused by the slow shifting of true north). He reasoned that still further, which they flatly the angle of tilt in the Earth’s refused to do. 16 any temple in question would axis over time; a phenomenon have been built so that it that astronomers refer to as aligned with the azimuth of a > Cont. on page 15

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Subsequent astronomical ian National Institute of Ar- Endnotes “The result- dating undertaken by Profes- chaeology shortly after this ing date of sor Neil Steede, yielding a 18 9. Posnansky, A. 1945. Tiahua- announcement. nacu, La Cuna del Hombre 15,000 BC date of 10,000 BC, was con- The value and limitations Americano . Augustin, Publ, New firmed by York and Minister of Education, Doctor of different dating methods La Paz, Bolivia, Archivo y Biblio- Oswaldo There is a natural tendency teca Nacionales de Bolivia , p44 . Rivera in for people to select evidence 10. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ 1996. These that supports their world- Toxodon dating exer- view and ignore any that cises have 11. Tiahuanacu, La Cuna del may question it. In Andean Hombre Americano, p. 117. benefited archaeology, it seems that from the use radio C14 and obsidian hy- 12. https://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/Smilodon of accurate dration dating have been computer- seized upon in order to sup- 13. Michell, J. 1977. A Little ized data, port the relatively late emer- History of Astro-archaeology: especially gence of civic society. Ironi- Stages in the Transformation of the Astro- cally, recent findings—using a Heresy . Thames and Hudson, London, p19. nomical Al- those same dating meth- manac. This ods—have now demon- 14. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ gives much strated the existence of so- Astronomical_Almanac - Publica- tion_history more reli- phisticated urban life on able values Peru’s coast at 2,600 BC 19 15. A Little History of Astro- for the and in the Andes from at archaeology, p20. changes in 20 the Earth’s least 3,500 BC. The eleva- 16. Wilson, C. 2006. Atlantis and the Kingdom of the Neander- Fig. 4. Cornerstone, Kalasasaya Tem- axial tilt over tion, climate changes and ple. Photo: David Truman. geological history of the thals . Bear and Company, Roch- time than ester Vermont, p. 60. either altiplano are capable of pro- ducing conditions that ac- raised such Lockyer or Posnansky ever 17. Ibid, p. 61. had. Dr Rivera’s work, how- centuate limitations in these furor ... that dating methods. This has 18. Hancock, G. and S. Faiia. ever, measured the devia- 1998. Heaven's Mirror, Michael been coupled with a failure a team of tion of the angles of solstitial Joseph Publishing, London. Pp. sunrises and to define precisely what is 305–6. sunsets. He being measured, After all, 19. http:// did this by neither method can really tell us when a stone was www.smithsonianmag.com/history/ taking first-city-in-the-new-world- measure- worked or set in place, even 66643778/? onsite_medium=internallink&page=1 ments from if it may indicate the last all four of time someone lit a fire 20. http://www.redhistoria.com/ the Kalasa- nearby, or when a blade was descubren-una-civilizacion-de-5500- anos-en-peru/#.Vm4TK4TWQyr saya’s cor- discarded there. ner mega- Posnansky’s approach to his liths (e.g., life’s work was what we may Fig. 4 and call today multidisciplinary, DAVE T RUMAN is a writer, re- Fig. 5 ). This but it was not that of a dab- searcher and world traveler with a special interest in ancient Fig. 5. Cornerstone diagrams. rendered it bling amateur. He embraced extremely civilizations. He has worked as a many different sources of lecturer and civil servant. Pres- improbable evidence and investigated ently, he divides his time be- astronomers that the differences between them rigorously. If some of tween South America and the was dis- the contemporary solstitial Posnansky’s conclusions and Wirral Peninsula in England. In azimuths and the positioning hypotheses are found to be addition to research, traveling patched of the cornerstones were mistaken, they are still wor- extensively in South America has given him an in-depth per- from Ger- simply inaccuracies on the thy of our attention. Even if part of any putative builders spective of the past and present many… to they do not provide defini- of the southern continent. Tru- in a later epoch. He con- re-calculate... tive answers, they may at man has also written articles for cluded that all four corner- least allow us to ask more such as Graham Hancock’s page In the end, stones had been positioned pertinent questions about and has appeared as a guest on they dated accurately somewhere what sorts of people inhab- several radio programs including 17 the Temple around 10,000 BC. Dr ited the Andes at the end of Sweden’s Red Ice Radio. at 9,300 BC.” Rivera resigned from his the Pleistocene. post as Director of the Boliv-

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1.84 million-year old “modern human” bone being promoted as “not” H. sapiens

By Richard Dullum

When my article, Smith- Forbidden Archeology—was Potts from my previous en- sonian challenged at travel- speaking about one new dis- counter). Yet, as can be seen ing exhibit “Exploring Hu- covery on in the pho- man Origins ,” appeared in a re- tograph as PCN Issue #41, I thought corded well as tex- I was fortunate to be YouTube tually and able to field a ques- program graphically tion to a real field from a explained archaeologist from year ago in a plotted the Smithsonian, a and I chart in- curator, no less(!). heard him cluded in mention a Domín- The question was: hand- guez- “When you find a part of bone Fig. 1. Four views of the manual proxi- Rodrigo et a modern human being discov- mal phalanx bone (finger bone) of OH 86. al ’s paper, in a certain stratum how ered near Left to right: dorsal, lateral, palmar, and the phalanx can you exclude the possibility Olduvai proximal views. Scale bar 1 cm. The is well into “As a that a modern human left it?” that authors avoid saying outright that it “is” a the modern modern human finger bone. One of their scien- dated to human In that article, I was featuring greater conclusions based on all the evidence bone com- shows that their reason for this is dogma: tific the- one particular bone that bears than 1.84 parison ory it is a unique modern human sig- million “Collectively, these results lead to the range. In subject nature on it—the styloid proc- years old. conclusion that OH 86 represents a fact, OH 86 hominin species different from the taxon to being ess of the modern human Naturally, is the third metacarpal bone of the I thought represented by OH 7 [Homo habilis ], and “earliest chal- hand. The age is 1.42 million whose closest form affinities are to mod- at first he ern H. sapiens . However, the geological fossil speci- lenged. years old. That is more than a was refer- age of OH 86 obviously precludes its men within This is million years before modern ring to assignment to H. sapiens .” the human because man is acknowledged to have the Carol variation.” appeared according to the Ward Image: M. Domínguez-Rodrigo et al . I.e. as all theo- current evolutionary theory. 2015. Earliest modern human-like hand hand- bone from a new >1.84-million-year-old they clarify ries are I say current evolutionary bone— site at Olduvai in Tanzania. Nature Com- it is the falsifi- “theory” because it is a the- the one I munications , Vol. 6, August 18, 2015. “oldest able as ory still. And as a scientific discussed specimen theory it is subject to being in my prior article. However, within the Homo cluster.” Darwin challenged. This is because on corresponding with him I himself all theories are falsifiable as learned that this was another Now, one is a lonely number recog- Darwin himself recognized. hand-bone altogether, from a no more, as this bone joins different archaeological site, another modern human bone, nized.” The scientific mainstream and published by different also from the same time frame regards evolution as being researchers. It is a proximal and a southern African location proven in the case of human 3rd phalanx from the left already famous for fossils origins and this ‘regard’ actu- hand of a modern human like and tools of early humans. ally functions like a dogma in us and is featured in a paper their world. If dogma rules, As I was getting my thoughts from Manuel Domínguez- then further inquiry and together for this article, a PCN Rodrigo, et al (2015) titled: challenges become a threat colleague notified me of evi- Earliest modern human-like that has to be snuffed out. dence of footprints of modern hand bone from a new dimensions and appearance, Are there further challenges to >1.84-million-year-old site at preserved in the greater than human evolution that continue Olduvai in Tanzania. Nature 1.5 million-year old layers of to come from their own inves- Communications ( Fig. 1 ). Illeret, Kenya, near Lake tigations in southern Africa? The bone is older than the Turkana and near Koobi Fora. This was reported in Science Michael Cremo—doing re- Carol Ward find (the bone of search for his new book, More contention with Curator Rick > Cont. on page 17 > Cont. on page 12

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Vol. 323, Issue 5918, pp. been found in the same area. in Bed II at Olduvai Gorge, 1197–1201, 27 Feb., 2009, Tanzania, by Hans Reck. It All of the claims by archae- “Early hominin foot morphol- dated to 1.15 million years ologists about 1.5 million ogy based on 1.5-million- old. This was a human skele- years and older prints be- year-old footprints from Il- ton of modern anatomical longing to H. erectus are not eret, Kenya,“ by M. Bennett, dimensions. It was complete backed up by skeletal post- S. Gonzalez , et al : in a block cut out of the hard cranial evidence. There are limestone and had to be “Collec- “The stratigraphic analysis in no hand or foot skeletons of chiseled out. Reck, a compe- tively, this article shows clearly that H. erectus in existence with tent geologist, observed no these re- the footprints lie in the 1.5- which to compare to these signs of disturbance from 1.54Mya range. new African finds. The pur- above, Nor did Louis Leakey, sults lead portedly close relative of H. Although we cannot conclude who was invited to observe to the con- erectus , H. habilis , displays the skeleton’s cutting out. clusion that with certainty what hominin foot and hand characteristics species made the footprints Leakey himself had found OH 86 suggestive of arboreal use several bones suggestive of at FwJj14E or GaJi10, these and hand-walking. H. habilis represents modern human characteris- fully modern human pres- is now considered an evolu- ence in the early Pleisto- a hominin tics, in combination with the tionary dead-end (e.g., Tim large size of the prints, are cene-late Pliocene. The species ... White and Donald Johanson, Kanam jaw discovered by most consistent with the 1987, in Olduvai Gorge). whose large size and tall stature Leakey in 1932 dates to closest evident in some Homo er- H. floresiensis (popularly greater than 1.9 million years old with a chin to form affini- gaster/erectus individuals.” known as “hobbit”), whose ancestor was purportedly H. match the earliest Homo ties are to This is a really good print, erectus , had ape-like hand sapiens mandible from the modern H. and its analysis by the au- skeletons, not human-like. Cave of Hearths, South Af- sapiens. thors with very refined laser Could isolation cause ‘de- rica, which dates the emer- measurements via a tech- gence of modern humans However, volving’ of previously adaptive nique developed at Bourne- characters like modern hands according to the accepted the geo- mouth University in U.K., and feet? When H. erectus got mainstream chronology to logical age takes measurement to a level to Flores in the first place he 200,000 years ago. Now of OH 86 unobtainable in Leakey’s would have had, according to here is a jaw with a chin, time. Whether the variability marking it as an anatomi- obviously Bennett and Dominguez- of the respective substrates Rodrigo, his African practi- cally modern human. The precludes prints are found in, not to cally modern feet and hands. news of this emerged only its assign- mention variability in human As isolation on Flores by M. Cremo’s determined ment to H. feet, is adequately factored changed H. erectus into H. effort to search the primary into the scatter charts which literature of archaeology sapiens.” floresiensis these, instead of show a separation between showing diminution, showed kept in dusty archives or the Laetoli prints and theirs, a change to ape-like foot and cardboard boxes in some is a matter of opinion. How- hand anatomy. If you say H. cases like the Ipswich skele- ever, the science of footprint floresiensis didn’t come from ton. Many other finds of analysis in the late 20th cen- H. erectus you have to posit post-cranial anatomically tury was—compared with this a missing ancestor for H. flore- modern human bones are refined method of the au- siensis (very weak). If H. flore- documented in Forbidden thors—quite capable of distin- siensis ‘came from’ H. erectus Archeology , as well. guishing if a foot had a longi- isolation on Flores then caused As a matter of fact, if all the tudinal medial arch, and other evolution to run backwards!? human anatomical foot hall- evidence gathered about H. marks. One might argue that Speaking of skeletal evi- sapiens in the Early Pleisto- this paper overanalyzed the dence for Early Pleistocene cene is reviewed, it appears footprints. Of course, ana- or late Pliocene anatomically that he lived side-by-side tomically modern humans are modern humans in southern with his supposed predeces- the only hominid known that Africa it is not limited to sors and ancestors! leaves modern human foot- those examples above, If H. sapiens was present in prints. One would think that which are actually quite re- Africa at 1.9 million years a mind free of preconceptions cent. Many finds suggesting ago then there is every likeli- and one which was thinking modern human presence in hood that he made it to Brit- critically would consider the this very excavation area are ain by around 1.5 million possibility of modern humans, well-documented in Forbid- years ago—at least. H. especially, since anatomically den Archeology including the modern human bones have Reck skeleton found in 1913 > Cont. on page 18

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sapiens left the Happisburgh compare with modern hu- RICHARD DULLUM is a surgical R.N. “As a mat- footprints that are identical mans and only Neanderthals working in a large O.R. for the ter of fact, to our own. The Ipswich have the modern human past 30 years as well as a re- searcher in early human prehis- if all the skeleton is modern in form styloid process on the third tory and culture. He is also a evidence because modern men lived metacarpal; but these African Vietnam vet with a degree in (and were buried) there bones predate them by hun- biology. In addition to his work gathered around 1.0 million years ago. dreds of thousands of years. with Kevin Lynch, he has written about H. eight prior articles for PCN. H. erectus/ergaster, H. ante- By showing that anatomi- sapiens in cessor, H. heidelbergensis all cally modern humans existed All of Dullum and Lynch’s articles the Early lack full foot and hand skele- in the earliest Pleistocene about Classic British Archaeology and related topics in PCN can be Pleistocene tons to compare to modern. times, there can be no way found at the following link: is re- Only Australopithecus, H. that they can be ruled out as habilis and H. neanderthalen- the makers of the prints at http://pleistocenecoalition.com/ viewed, it sis have hand skeletons to Happisburgh. index.htm#Dullum_and_Lynch appears that he Debunking evolutionary propaganda, Part 19: Quick links lived side- by-side By John Feliks with his Several years ago we provided a series of quick links to all of our articles on Calico Early Man site. Calico, supposed Hueyatlaco etc., are blocked because they provide factual evidence conflicting with mainstream mythologies. In the interim between articles in the Debunking Evolutionary Propaganda series here are quick links to each predeces- of the articles so far. Each deconstructs the ideology calling evolutionism “science.” Essential exposés include sors and propaganda techniques being used by the science community; invertebrate, vertebrate, and plant fossil evi- ancestors!” dence; and quotations proving that the fossil record does not support evolution and that experts already know it: Part 1: Basic propaganda techniques in college textbooks (Issue 23:10–12, May-June 2013) Question: How does one make an ideology claimed as fact appear overwhelmingly true to students never taught how to think critically? Answer: 1.) Turn science textbooks into propaganda; 2.) Intimi- date students who question the propaganda; 3.) Withhold conflicting evidence. (Parts 1–11 in html) Part 2: Fictions taught as fact in college textbooks, 1st half (Issue 23:16–18, May-June 2013) Part 3: Fictions taught as fact in college textbooks, 2nd half (Issue 24, July-August 2013) Part 4: Evolutionists are not qualified to assess 'any' evidence (Issue 25, September-October 2013) Part 5: Mandatory U.S.-legislated indoctrination now in place - 1st target, captive-audience children in K-12 science classrooms (Issue 27, January-February 2014) Part 6: The inconvenient facts of living fossils: Brachiopoda (Issue 28, March-April 2014). The “living fossils” series follows the Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology as well as plants and vertebrates. It unambi- guously demonstrates through fossils recovered by the author direct from formations combined with expert quotations that not one “expert” has any idea what they are talking about when it comes to evolution. Part 7: " " " Mollusca (Issue 29, May-June 2014) Part 8: " " " Porifera and Cnidaria (Issue 30, July-Aug 2014) Part 9: " " " Echinodermata (Issue 31, Sept-Oct 2014) Part 10: " " Bryozoa (Issue 32, Nov-Dec 2014) Part 11: " " Arthropoda (Issue 33, Jan-Feb 2014) Part 12: " " Trace fossils & graptolites (Issue 34, March-April 2014) Part 13: " " Plants (Issue 35, May-June 2015) Part 14: " " Fishes and invertebrates (Issue 36, July-Aug 2015) Part 15: Tetrapod evolution credibility questioned via invertebrate fossils (Issue 37, Sept-Oct 2015) Fig. 1. There are thou- Part 16: Overview paragraphs and links for Parts 1-15 (Issue 38, Nov-Dec 2015) sands of “living fossils” that the U.S. public is Part 17: The ‘Objective’ Stratigraphic Column project: Ordovician (Issue 40, March-April 2016) not informed about. Part 18: The ‘Objective’ Stratigraphic Column project: Devonian (Fig. 1; Issue 41, May-June 2016) Never trust a science community that Apart from propaganda, the evolutionary community diverts attention away from the lack of fossil evidence blocks fossil or ar- in two main ways: 1.) Claim the changes are genetic. 2.) Appeal to ‘unknown ancestors.’ Tricks like these chaeological evidence are used for deceiving students and the public regarding facts. It is my hope that readers begin to realize from the public. Left: that science like this needs to be confronted and held to the same standard of ethics as any other science. Devonian fossils rec. in JOHN FELIKS has specialized in the study of early human cognition for 20 years providing evidence that situ by author, Right: human cognition does not evolve but has remained the same throughout time. Earlier, his focus was on Living forms. the invertebrate fossil record studying fossils in the field across the U.S. and Ontario, Canada, as well as studying many of the classic texts such as the encyclopedic Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology.

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From Stone Age to Space Age, Part 2

By Vesna Tenodi MA, archaeology; artist and writer

In search of the origins Swamp of the most common hominids in “The Neo- Stone Age patterns Australia (Fig. 1 ). lithic revo- As can be inferred from ar- lution kept chaeological finds, migrating Evolution prehistoric tribes had and devo- been passing through lution of Central Europe from artistic as far back as 1.8 skill million years ago. Most of them brought Rock art along and left behind research some of their own also shows drawing portable artifacts, often the appar- decorated with geometric ent cyclic on its Pa- rise and patterns. Fig 1. Some of the Stone Age motifs in the leolithic fall of artis- public domain. roots, and Archaeological material tic ability in the Old shows that almost every prehistoric prehistoric culture used ex- man. Much like the inverted which only simple geometric Stone Age actly the same decorative order of evolution, where patterns were used, with no engrav- patterns. anatomically modern hu- depictions of living beings— ings and mans preceded Homo erec- anthropomorphic or zoom- Building on my early spe- tus by fifty thousand orphic representational art. decorative cialization in Central Euro- years—as evidenced by Archaeologists who embrace patterns pean prehistory, my re- Mungo Man and Kow Swamp search in Australia led to the theory of cyclic evolution often ap- skeletons in Australia—there and devolution of mankind pear on some interesting conclu- is a parallel inverted order sions. In Palaeolithic art, see this as confirmation that Neolithic in development and decline ancient advanced civilizations identical motifs were used of artistic skill. artifacts.” by prehistoric people all were destroyed—due to ma- over the globe, in Africa, The tradition of most so- jor geological or cosmic America, Asia and Europe, phisticated Palaeolithic cave events. After hundreds of as well as in Australia, in an art such as found in Al- thousands or even millions of endless repetition of the tamira in Spain and Lascaux years a new evolutionary same geometric patterns, or Chauvet caves in France, cycle was jump-started, and symbols and signs. was replaced with simple, the same slow progress from geometric motifs, and child- brute to Homo sapiens un- Among those universally- like drawings by cultures folded all over again. Some used prehistoric patterns which emerged tens of of the leading authorities in found in stone age cultures thousands of years later. archaeological research make in all parts of the world are an excellent evidence-based dots and circles, squares There is also a question of case for a cyclic evolution and triangles, zigzag, criss- what caused the complex and devolution occurring cross and ladder patterns, motifs and representations many times over at least two which are as widely used of people and animals in hundred million years (e.g., today as they were at the Lower Palaeolithic art to Michael Cremo, Forbidden time of Homo erectus in come to an abrupt end. Archeology ). Africa, Neanderthal in What followed was a gap of Europe, and the Kow thousands of years during > Cont. on page 20

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Segment of the Whole continental part of Croatia, ornaments. Jewelry finds in these coastal sites with evi- the Gravettian-Epigravettian While looking at one segment dence of human occupation layers of Vlakno Cave do not of our past, within one evolu- back to a million years ago, deviate from the general char- tionary cycle—the most recent provide insight into the mind acteristics of the time, but outnumber the finds at any other site on the east- ern Adriatic coast (Dario Vujević, Tran- sition and tradition in Vlakno Cave: Modelling the Palaeolithic- Mesolithic transition in Northern Dalmatia , Fig. 2. Upper Paleolithic timeline University of Zadar). behind the stone age deco- Sandalja underground one—I found a number of rative system. caves “What Palaeolithic sites on the Croa- Vlakno cave brought tian Adriatic Coast and its is- Another important prehis- Vela Spila lands, which provide evidence In Vlakno Cave archaeologists toric site is the Sandalja into focus that the various stone age have found 15,000 year old cave-system near Pula, first occupants of that region used … was engravings, as well as fossil- excavated in 1961 by the the same universal patterns ised bones, discovered in Croatian geologist Ivan decorated (Fig. 2 ). Among sites which 1965. Excavations have so far Crnolatac and Croatian geolo- pottery… are as informative and intrigu- reached a depth of 5 meters gist, speleologist and palaeon- dated to ing as Vela Spila on Korcula, and unearthed cultural layers tologist Mirko Malez, known as near Dubrovnik in the South the late dating back to 19,500 BP. the “pioneer of Croatian cave Adriatic (see Part 1 , PCN #41), Rich deposits of Mesolithic and archaeology.” In 1961 Mirko Upper Palaeolithic ma- Malez found fossilised remains terial contain valuable of Homo erectus , dated to items such as flint about 1 million years ago. and bone tools, drills, The site was excavated under scrapers, as well as his supervision until 1989. stones decorated with This Upper Palaeolithic site ladder and mesh pat- also yields a wealth of flints terns ( Fig. 3 ). A com- and stones and fossilised plete human skeleton bones. Two main sites in this with Cro-Magnon char- system consisting of surface acteristics was found, and underground caves are ceremoniously buried Fig. 3. Flint engraved with a ladder pattern. Photo by Vladimir known as Sandalja I and under tumulus, sur- Ivanov / CROPIX. Sandalja II. rounded with jewelry made of shells and bones. The Upper Pa- there are also two sites of Sandalja I is characterized special interest in the Middle layer was dated to 12–13,000 by the presence of a bone- leolithic.” and North Adriatic. BP. More samples of human breccia infilling in its deepest bones, belonging to at least levels, and even though the One is Vlakno Cave, on the three individuals, were discov- strata dating is uncertain, it island of Dugi Otok (Long Is- ered in December 2011, and is believed to belong to the land), archipelago of the city excavation is still going on. Villafranchian period of the of Zadar in the Middle Adriatic. Pleistocene, about 3 million This again indicates that pre- The other is Sandalja Cave to 1.5 million years ago. close to Pula in the Northern historic people back then, the Adriatic region of Istria. same as now, had some sense Sandalja II contains a group of beauty, and urge to create, of 29 people, in its Upper Just as the Neanderthal sites decorating utilitarian objects at Krapina and Vindija in the as well as creating personal > Cont. on page 21

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“The orna- Palaeolithic stratum (cc palaeological and archaeo- embellishment, regardless of 27,000 BP). Their skulls logical sites in Croatia. the stage of evolution of any ments and were smashed, which was of those ancient cultures. attributed to violent Layers belonging to injury. It leads to the Aurignacian and Epigravettian In Part 3 we can take a closer uncomfortable conclu- cultures are important for look at some of the most sion that, alongside a reconstruc- need for creative ex- tion of the pression, the need for behaviour of violence has also al- pre-sapiens ways been a part of hunters and the human psyche. gatherers in the Adriatic Sandalja is so far the region during Fig. 4. The oldest tool (chopper) only discovery testify- the Upper found in Sandalja I cave, one ing to the arrival of Palaeolithic. of the oldest ever found on Homo sapiens in Istria. The fossilised the European continent. To date, Sandalja I has human re- been excavated to a mains are decorated depth of 9 meters. A stone being used chopper found there was dated for further bones from to about 800,000 years ago, genetic Vela Spila which makes it the oldest arte- analysis, and suggest … a fact found in Croatia ( Fig. 4 ). are expected Fig. 6. Jewelry made of shells and bones; Sandalja Cave symbolic tra- to shed Within layers attributed to the more light on the coexistence common Stone Age motifs dition existed Aurignacian and Gravettian and overlapping existence of appearing in Australia… lithic periods (38 – 22,000 Homo erectus and Homo BP), most abundant finds sapiens in the same region VESNA T ENODI is an archaeologist, are dated to 23,540 ± (Prehistoric Archaeological Sites artist, and writer based in Syd- 180 BP [Mirko Malez, The in Croatia, Encyclopaedia Croatica ney, Australia. She received her Upper Pleistocene orni- http://www.enciklopedija.hr/ Master’s Degree in Archaeology thofauna of Sandalja I natuknica.aspx?id=59323 ). from the University of Zagreb, near Pula in Istria , 1974]. Croatia. She also has a diploma Same signs, same minds in Fine Arts from the School of The splintered bones (for Palaeolithic artifacts found in Applied Arts in Zagreb. Her De- marrow extraction) found gree Thesis was focused on the both the Vlakno and Sandalja in Sandalja I, associated spirituality of Neolithic man in with a couple of choppers, sites are decorated with identi- Central Europe as evidenced in has convinced some au- cal patterns: parallel lines, iconography and symbols in thors that this cave reveals ladder motif, cross-hatch pat- prehistoric cave art and pottery. one of the earliest human tern, dots and circles. Together After migrating to Sydney, she worked for 25 years for the Aus- occupations of Europe. with jewelry made of shells, bones or pebbles ( Fig. 6 ), tralian Government, and ran her own business. Today she is an Further analysis could pro- these form part of a decora- independent researcher and vide an interesting indica- tive repertoire typical for the spiritual archaeologist, concen- tion of the possible routes Upper Palaeolithic period in trating on the origins and mean- of Homo erectus spread the Mediterranean basin. ing of pre-Aboriginal Australian over prehistoric Europe. rock art. In the process, she is The same motifs and decora- developing a theory of the Pre- Aurignacian blades and tive objects are also typical for Aboriginal races which she has cores are deemed to be an stone age material found in called the Rajanes and Abra- important technological Australia. janes. In 2009, Tenodi estab- innovation introduced by lished the DreamRaiser project, Homo Sapiens , existing in It implies the same urge to with a group of artists who ex- plore iconography and ideas Fig. 5. Blade from the parallel with the Neander- leave a mark, a sign, or a Sandalja II cave. symbol, and that the same contained in ancient art and thal inhabitants of Middle mythology. Paleolithic Europe ( Fig. 5 ). sense of aesthetics was pre- Some beautiful flint artifacts sent in the archaic mind eve- Website: www.modrogorje.com here through- rywhere. It hints that there excavated from this site have E-mail: [email protected] out much of been dated to the Epigravet- was a similar mentality, and the late Upper tian period. Engraved stones worldview, present among All of Tenodi’s articles published and bones, on display at the all ancient people in our pre- in Pleistocene Coalition News can Palaeolithic.” be found at the following link: Archeological Museum in history. It indicates the same Pula, show why Sandalja II is desire for self-expression, http://pleistocenecoalition.com/ one of the most interesting and the need for self- #vesna_tenodi

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