Hopefully, I’ll get to update this post occasionally. The Thunderbolts.info forum has been down for nearly 2 weeks now, so I can’t access my threads there where I’ve written a lot of material for several years. I recently found that artifacts found in coal are likely not ancient, because coal dust can get wet and an object can fall into it and the dust can dry out and reform a lump of coal. So artifacts found in coal are likely not ancient, except for fossils. An iron hammer was found in solid rock with a wooden handle. I don't remember if that was also debunked. So far, it looks like there is no ancient tech more advanced than modern tech and no ancient tech from before the Younger Dryas Flood, except for Noah's Ark, which was apparently built just before that Flood. Megalithic structures seem to have been made after the Y.D. Flood. That includes Egyptian, Sumerian, Gobekli Tepe and Tiahuanaco structures. Some or all of them were apparently hit by a later Flood from about 2300 BC caused by tsunamis from asteroid strikes in the Pacific and Indian Oceans and in the Mediterranean Sea. The Golden Age was likely after the Great Flood during the Ice Age, but the ice sheet mostly only affected northern North America, northern Europe and mountain ranges. Dinosaurs were mostly killed off during the Great Flood, so they were no longer a problem for humans. The Saturn Configuration was prominent in the sky, but it was not worshiped until late in the Golden Age, when the planets became unstable. If the Bible is historic regarding the patriarchs who lived before the Y.D. Flood, people would have had crafts and built cities, but no megalithic structures. That didn't happen until the Saturn Configuration broke up. The structures were built to try to bring back the Golden Age. Following is some evidence that ancient tech was not that advanced.
Tiwanaku: The Stonehenge Of South America youtube.com/watch?v=yD37xfRzQwI
This shows that reed boats held together with ropes were able to carry the megaliths for Tiahuanaco across Lake Titicaca and haul them to the city by human power alone.
The Age of Tiwanaku: What They Aren't Telling You youtube.com/watch?v=rxIiDwngvVQ&t=7s
This indicates that Tiahuanaco is not over about 1,500 years old. The strand lines around Lake Titicaca are tilted apparently due to the lake having been at sea level during the early part of the Great Flood, but was uplifted with the Andes Mountains during the later part of the Flood, which uplifted more toward the north. My main question then is this: Was Tiahuanaco originally found under 6 feet of sediment, as I think Ralph Bellamy claimed? If so, was there a very late melting of the glaciers in the Andes, which deposited the sediments? Or do the structures need to be dated much earlier, to about 2300 BC?
ANCIENT STONE CRAFT TECHNOLOGY: What Materials Did They Use? youtube.com/watch?v=L3A_kItgymQ
Historian Reacts to Evidence for Ancient High Technology in Egypt youtube.com/watch?v=n_NguZUDku4&t=3356s
These 2 videos above show that ancient professionally carved and polished objects could have been made with primitive tools.
Another video about Gobekli Tepe etc speculated that the animals shown on the pillars of the structure were not native to the area, but may have been meant to depict animals from Noah's Ark which landed not far from there. Someone else theorized that one of the pillars there was meant to say that a comet impact was seen to occur, and that may have been the Younger Dryas impact of about 2600 BC, according to my findings that it occurred about 700 years after the Great Flood. The following is an article about that. Their dating is wrong. I'm not confident in their theory, but it seems worth knowing about. The video is embedded at the end of the article.
THE APOCALYPSE STONE OF GÖBEKLI TEPE: 5 MYSTERIOUS ANCIENT MESSAGES https://www.thearchaeologist.org/blog/the-apocalypse-stone-of-gbekli-tepe-5-mysterious-ancient-messages
May 6, 2023
Deep inside the world’s oldest temple, Gobekli Tepe, is a pillar known as the Vulture Stone. The temple was erected around 11,500 years ago and can be found in modern-day Anatolia, Southern Turkey. It provides the earliest evidence for permanent human settlements in the world, and the Vulture Stone found within it may tell the story of a comet strike that shaped the course of human history.
The stone is decorated with a range of animal symbols, including a scorpion, an ibex, and many birds in various poses. At the bottom of the scene is an image of a headless man, while the top is bordered with large, repeating arches and squares.
There has been much speculation about what these symbols could mean. One theory suggests that the animals correspond to ancient constellations. The scorpion represents the constellation Scorpio, the duck-like drawing Libra, and the wolf symbol Lupus. The circular shape in the center would represent the Sun.
With all the symbols aligned, the stone represents the sky at the date and time when these constellations and the Sun were aligned.
After cross-checking this theory with computer simulations of the Solar System around that time, researchers proposed that the carvings could describe a comet impact that occurred around 10,950 BCE. In this case, the headless man could represent death and calamity which befell humans at the time, and the strange symbols at the top of the stone could represent comet fragments streaking across the sky.
Around that time, a mini-ice age known as Younger Dryas began that changed civilization forever and lasted around 1000 years. It is considered a critical event for humanity as some scientists believe that the emergence of agriculture and city-states resulted from the low temperatures of the Younger Dryas. This temporary climatic shift depleted hunter-gatherer food sources and forced ancient peoples to gather in settlements and cultivate crops to survive.
The fascinating tableau seems to have served as a means to commemorate the devastating event by the people of Gobekli Tepe and suggests that it wasn't just another neolithic temple but perhaps an ancient observatory used for monitoring the night sky. As of 2021, less than 5% of the site had been excavated, and the mysteries of Gobekli Tepe are likely to be revealed in the years to come.
UPDATE 8/18: The historian in some of the videos briefly commented on above, regarding Tiwanaku and high tech in ancient Egypt, sensibly critiques many of the popular theories about advanced ancient tech, but both sides are making a major blunder in their theories, by assuming that conventional Dating methods are accurate. Thus, both sides think dinosaurs existed over 65 million years ago and went extinct due to cataclysms at that time, instead of realizing they died out during the Great Flood just 5,300 years ago or so. The second chapter of my book shows proof that the present main Dating methods are totally unreliable. Both sides should look into scientific Creationist articles (and videos on Youtube) at Creation.com, ICR.org, AnswersInGenesis.org etc, by authors like Michael Oard, Steve Austin, Kurt Wise, et al. Creationist ideas about the infallibility of the Bible are nonsense to me, but their scientific research is much better than the mainstream and most other theorists. Their ideas about rapid continental drift are better than the mainstream model, but not as good as Mike Fischer’s NewGeology.us.
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Fascinating overview. I am always amazed at the ability of students of prehistory to imagine and flesh out the living reality of ancient times from such snippets and vague deviations from the ordinary--as heroic in their own way as the famous bards of the past. Many thanks for sharing your discoveries and insights!