Graham Hancock is one of the foremost authorities on Ancient Mysteries,
having written numerous bestselling non-fiction books on the subject
such as 'Fingerprints Of The Gods', 'The Sign & The Seal', 'Heavens
Mirror' and 'Supernatural' and, recently, the fantasy adventure novel
'Entangled'. Turbowolf released their self-titled debut album in
November 2011, a blend of dirty rocknroll, punked-up riffs &
psychedelic noise. The band are about to embark on a European tour
starting 23/2 in London. Their shared fascination with the esoteric
& the mysterious lead to this meeting of minds.
400,000 years is, of course, directly contrary to the reigning evolutionary and genetic paradigm that holds that modern homo sapiens sapiens
came from Africa, and migrated throughout the world, some
150,000-200,000 years ago. Of course, there are those such as Michael
Cremo and Richard Thompson who have presented archaeological evidence of
someone in the genus homo being on earth in these times frames – and much older – ad possessed of evident technologies. (See their Forbidden Archeology and The Hidden History of the Human Race).
It is interesting that the teeth are said only to be “similar” to
modern man, and this raises an issue: if they are only “similar” to
modern man, are we looking at some hitherto unknown species with the
genus, or are we looking at some species already known (for example, homo Neanderthalensis)
but unspecified in the article?What species then is being talked about?
The article indicates, perhaps, some confusion over this precise issue:
“The specimens, date back to the Middle Pleistocene era,
include permanent and deciduous teeth. They were thus placed
chronologically earlier than the bulk of fossil hominin specimens
previously known from southwest Asia. Although none of the Qesem teeth
resemble those of pre-Homo sapiens Neanderthals, a few traits may
suggest some affinities with members of the Neanderthal evolutionary
lineage, but the balance of the evidence suggests a closer similarity
with the Skhul-Qafzeh dental material, said Gopher and Barkai.”
Michael Tellinger shows off what could be one of the best pieces of
evidence that there were giants on Earth a long, long time ago.
Geologists have marvelled at this giant foot print in rough granite,
about 4 feet long. Some still say that it is a natural erosion pattern.
Personally
I find that suggestion highy improbable for various reasons that I will
not go into here. Prof. Pieter Wagener from UPE, suggests that "there
is a higher probability of little green men arriving from space and
licking it out with their tongues, than being created by natural
erosion".
It is located in South Africa, near the town of Mpaluzi,
close to the Swaziland border. It is estimated to be between 200 million
and 3 Billion years old because of our current understanding of the
formation of granite in Earth's history. This dating immediately causes
great debate and argument - so I urge you to keep your mind open and
focused on the evidence.
This amazing footprint in granite was
discovered in 1912 by a hunter called Stoffel Coetzee, while hunting in
the remote area. At the time this was a deeply remote part of South
Africa known as the Eastern Transvaal, teeming with wild life, including
antelope and lions. It remains in the same condition as it was when
first discovered and the possibility that this was a carved hoax is
extremely low because of its remote location. Even today, it is
difficult to find.
The real mystery is how this amazing phenomenon occured - I have no idea - but here it is and we cannot wish it away.
YES
- It is granite - it is a well recognised geological part of South
Africa and recorded on all geological maps - that is why this footprint
is such an incredible mystery. It can be desribed as a "phenocrystic"
granite, OR coarse porphyritic granite, that underwent several different
stages of cooling. The result being an interesting mixture of large and
small granules. This is why granite companies are keen to mine this
area for granite because it will look really "pretty" when polished. In
the official Geology Of South Africa, this outcrop is called Mpuluzi
Batholith (Granite) and the official dating of this rock produced dates
of around 3.1 billion years.
A real mystery that needs close scientific examination.
