GEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE FOR MANKIND'S EXTREME ANTIQUITY

I
find myself now, in the seventh decade of life, still asking two questions that in one
way or another the great majority of my 165 published books have sought to answer:
(1) who are we as a species? and (2) what is our destiny? The basic reason why I
wrote Worlds Before Our Own (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1978; Anomalist Books, 2007)
Anomalous is that I have always found it incredible that such sophisticated people, as we judge
ourselves to be, do not really know who we are.
evidence, from Archaeologists, anthropologists and various academicians who play the "origins of
man" game reluctantly and only occasionally acknowledge instances where unique
human artifacts skeletal and cultural evidence from the prehistoric record suddenly appears long before it
should—and in places where it should not. These irritating artifacts destroy the orderly
found in ancient evolutionary line that academia for so long has presented to the public. Consequently,
such data have been largely left buried in site reports, forgotten storage rooms and dusty
strata to sand and archives where one suspects that there is a great deal of suppressed, ignored and
misplaced prehistoric cultural evidence that would alter the established interpretations of
stone structures human origins and provide us with a much clearer definition of what it means to be
vitrified by intense human.
There is now a basic academic consensus that the "Homo" lineage goes back at least
heat, suggestive of three million years, and that an ancestor of modern man evolved about one million years
ago. Homo sapiens, the "thinking man" (our own species), became the dominant
prehistoric nuclear planetary life-form on a worldwide basis about 40,000 years ago.
It is difficult enough to explain the sudden appearance of Homo sapiens at that time, but
war, cannot be it is an even more complex question to ponder why Neanderthal man and Cro-Magnon
man correspondingly disappeared. Academic warfare rages unceasingly over whether or
explained by not Neanderthal man and our ancestors were two separate species or whether they
interbred.
established And just as scientists are adding to a growing body of evidence that humankind
interpretations of developed in Africa, a Hungarian excavation surrendered a Homo sapiens skull fragment
in a context more than 600,000 years out of alignment with the accepted calendar of man's
human origins. migrations across the planet. Hominid fossils unearthed in Dmanisi, Georgia, are dated at
1.77 million years old; and a hominid tooth found in Niocene deposits near the Maritsa
River in Bulgaria is dated at seven million years old.
What happens to Darwinian evolution when there are such sites as the one in Australia
which yielded Homo sapiens (modern man), Homo erectus (our million-year-old ancestor)
and Neanderthal man (our Stone Age cousin) in what appears to be a contemporaneous
environment?
Then there is the Tabun site in today's Israel where Homo sapiens fragments were found
in strata below (which means older than) classic Neanderthal bones. In August 2007,
by Brad Steiger © 2007 scientists dating fossils found in Kenya challenged the conventional view that Homo
habilis (1.44 million years) and Homo erectus (1.55 million years) evolved one after the
Website: other. Dating of new fossil evidence reveals that the two species lived side by side in
http://www.bradandsherry.com Africa for almost half a million years.
Somewhere, in what would appear to be a biological and cultural free-for-all, there must
First published in lie the answer to that most important question: who are we?
The Canadian But just as we are trying our best to fit skeletal fragments together in a manner that will
23 and 31 December 2007 be found acceptable to what we believe we know about our origins, footprints have been
found in stone which, if they are what they appear to be, will make a total shambles of our

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accepted evolutionary calendar. In Pershing County, Nevada, a similar sites in North America, including Mesa Verde, Wichita
shoeprint was found in Triassic limestone—strata indicative of and Chaco Canyon.
400 million years in age—in which the fossilised evidence clearly One of the most heretical theories that I suggest in Worlds
revealed finely wrought double-stitching in the seams. Before Our Own is that the cradle of civilisation might possibly
Early in 1975, Dr Stanley Rhine of the University of New have travelled from the so-called New World to the Old. Now, in
Mexico announced his discovery of human-like footprints in December 2007, years after Ruth Shady Solís documented the
strata indicative of an age of 40 million years. A few months ancient city of Caral, Peru, scientists have accepted the carbon
before, a similar find was made in Kenton, Oklahoma. At almost dating of 2627 BCE, thereby establishing the civilisation in South
the same time, a discovery of a footprint in stone was revealed in America to be much older than the towns of the Harappa Valley,
north-central Wisconsin. in today's Pakistan and western India, and the pyramids of Egypt.
In Death Valley, California, there is ample fossil and skeletal Caral must now be recognised as "the mother of all civilisations",
evidence to indicate that the desolate area was once a tropical the missing link of archaeology, the Mother City.
Garden of Eden where a race of giants lived and fed themselves Scientific knowledge has seemingly been prized by the
with palatable foods taken from the local lakes and forests. inhabitants of every culture, known and unknown. Rock
To speak of a race of prehistoric giants in what are now the engravings, which may be as old as 60 million years, depict in
desert sands of Death Valley is simultaneously to refute the step-by-step illustrations an entire heart-transplant operation and a
doctrine which decrees that man is a relative newcomer to the Caesarean section. The ancient Egyptians used the equivalent of
North and South American continents. While on the one hand, contraceptive jelly and had urine-based pregnancy tests. The
new radiocarbon dates demonstrate that the Bering land bridge cement used in filling Mayan dental cavities still holds after 1,500
and the Cordilleran ice corridor were years.
not passable until 9,000 years ago, an No fabric is supposed to have been
increasing amount of physical found until Egypt produced cloth
evidence indicates that man was material 5,000 years ago. How, then,
surely in this hemisphere much Rock engravings, which may can we deal with the Russian site
earlier than that recent date. be as old as 60 million years, which provides spindle whorls and
For one thing, corn, an American patterned fabric designs more than
contribution to the dinner tables of depict in step-by-step 80,000 years old?
the world, is said to be, at 9,000 illustrations an entire Not only did the ancient
years, our oldest domesticated seed Babylonians appear to use sulphur
crop. Some agriculturist had to have heart-transplant operation matches, but they had a technology
been in the Americas more than and a Caesarean section. sophisticated enough to employ
9,000 years ago in order to complex electrochemical battery cells
domesticate the seed. Ancient with wiring. There is also evidence
squash seeds, peanuts and cotton of electric batteries and electrolysis in
balls dated at 8,500 years old, found in ancient Egypt, India and Swahililand.
Peru's Nanchoc Valley, constitute additional evidence that New Remains of a metal-working factory of over 200 furnaces was
World farming was well established. Conclusive proof that such found at what is now Medzamor in Russian Armenia. Although a
ancient farmers did exist in the Americas was offered when a temperature of over 1,780 degrees is required to melt platinum,
Humble Oil Company drill brought up Mexican corn pollen that some pre-Incan peoples in Peru were making objects of the metal.
was more than 80,000 years old. Even today, the process of extracting aluminium from bauxite is a
The anomalous Indian blood seration and dentition and the complicated procedure, but Chou Chu, a famous general of the
geographic distribution of the American Indian demand an Tsin era (AD 265–316), was interred with aluminium belt
impossible genetic time scale in which to transform Asiatic fasteners on his burial costume.
immigrants to distinctive New World inhabitants. Even if we Carved bones, chalk and stones, together with what would
attempt to keep some kind of peace with the accepted theories of appear to be greatly ornamented ''coins", have been brought up
New World habitation, we must grant more evolution in 40,000 from great depths during well-drilling operations. A strange,
years in North America than that which took place in more than imprinted slab was found in a coal mine; it was decorated with
one million years in Europe, Africa and Asia. diamond-shaped squares with the face of an old man in each
Skulls found in California, which are clearly those of American "box". In another coal mine discovery, miners found smooth,
Indians, have been dated at 50,000 years old. But we are left with polished, concrete blocks which formed a solid wall. According
another mystery. A 140,000-year-old American Indian–type skull to one miner's testimony, he chipped one block open only to find
(determined via metric analysis) has been found at an Iranian the standard mixture of sand and cement that makes up most
excavation site. typical building blocks of today. A gold necklace was found
What of the lost Amerindian civilisation of Cahokia, Illinois, embedded in a lump of coal. A metal spike was discovered in a
complete with pyramids and a great wall? One site, near the silver mine in Peru. An iron implement was found in a Scottish
present city of St Louis, may have contained a metropolis of more coal-bed. These are estimated to be millions of years older than
than 250,000 North American Indians. man is believed to have existed. A metallic bell-shaped vessel,
Who constructed the mysterious seven-mile walls of the inlaid with a silver floral design, was blasted out of solid rock
Berkeley and Oakland, California, hills? near Dorchester, Massachusetts.
And which pre-Mayan peoples engineered an elaborate Two hypotheses may explain the presence of these perplexing
waterworks in Yucatán to irrigate crops over 2,000 years ago? artifacts: (1) that they were manufactured by an advanced
The Caracol tower at Chichén Itzá, Yucatán, is a remarkable civilisation on Earth which, due either to natural or technological
Mesoamerican observatory that seems to have correlations with catastrophe, was destroyed before our world's own genesis; and

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(2) that they are vestiges of a highly technological civilisation of of the cable channels—some thought it was the History Channel;
extraterrestrial origin which visited this planet millions of years others, Discovery; still others, National Geographic—had
ago, leaving behind various artifacts. presented "proof" that the "fused green glass" to be found in
Even if a highly advanced extraterrestrial race might have various areas had been created by meteoric air blasts rather than
visited this planet in prehistoric times, it seems unlikely that such prehistoric nuclear wars. I remain open to many theories of
common, everyday items as nails, necklaces, buckles and vases Earth's prehistory.
would have been carried aboard a spacecraft and deposited in One of those individuals prompted to write to me, who had the
such widely separated areas—for such artifacts have been found advantage of actually having read Worlds Before Our Own, stated
in North and South America, Great Britain, the whole of Europe, that I present "in a clear and lucid style, information concerning
Africa, Asia and the Middle East. anomalous archeological finds without the hyperbole usually
associated with this type of material".
Indications of Ancient Catastrophes While patches of "fused green glass" may in certain instances
In spite of the general unpopularity of catastrophism, there does have been caused by air blasts from meteors, I wonder if such a
seem to be a number of recently discovered "proofs" of ancient natural phenomenon could have created all 28 fields of blackened
cataclysmic changes in the Earth's crust which may account for and shattered stones that cover an area as large as 7,000 miles
the nearly total disappearance of these each in western Arabia. The stones are
prehistoric worlds. Geological evidence densely grouped, as if they might be the
indicates that these changes were both remains of cities, sharp-edged and burned
sudden and drastic, and might have black. Experts have decreed that they are
completely overwhelmed and destroyed the Perhaps the not volcanic in origin, but appear to date
early inhabitants and their cultures.
Perhaps the most potentially mind-
most potentially from the period when Arabia was thought to
be a lush and fruitful land that suddenly
boggling evidence of an advanced mind-boggling became scorched into an instant desert.
prehistoric technology that might have What we know today as the Sahara Desert
blown away its parent-culture is to be found
evidence of an was once a tropical region of heavy
in those sites which ostensibly bear mute advanced prehistoric vegetation, abundant rainfall and several
evidence of prehistoric nuclear warfare. large rivers. Scientists have discovered areas
Large areas of fused green glass and
technology that might of the desert in which soils which once knew
vitrified cities have been found deep in the have blown away its the cultivating influence of plough and
strata of archaeological digs in: farmer are now covered by a thin layer
Pierrelatte in Gabon, Africa; the parent-culture is to be of sand. Researchers have also found
Euphrates Valley; the Sahara Desert; found in those sites an enormous reservoir of water below
the Gobi Desert; Iraq; the Mojave the parched desert area. The source of
Desert; Scotland; the Old and Middle which ostensibly such a large deposit of water could only
Kingdoms of Egypt; and south-central bear mute evidence have been the heavy rains from the
Turkey. In contemporary times, such period of time before a fiery
material as fused green glass has only of prehistoric devastation consumed the lush
been known at nuclear testing sites nuclear warfare. vegetation of the area.
(where the sand had melted to form the On 25 December 2007, it was
substance). It is quite unsettling to confirmed by a French scientist that
some to consider it possible that these excavations at the area of Khamis Bani
sites provide evidence of a prehistoric Sa'ad in Tehema district of Hodeidah
nuclear war. At the same time, province in today's Yemen have
scientists have found a number of yielded over a thousand rare
uranium deposits that appear to have been mined or depleted in archaeological pieces dating back to 300,000 BCE. Before a
antiquity. dramatic climate change, the inhabitants at that time had been
If it is possible that nuclear annihilation of a global civilisation fishermen and had domesticated a number of animals no longer to
did occur in prehistoric times, it seems even more urgent to learn be found in the region, including a species of horse currently
who we really are before we find ourselves doomed to repeat the found only in Middle Asia.
lessons left to us by a world before our own. The Red Chinese have conducted atomic tests near Lob Nor
Lake in the Gobi Desert which have left large patches of the area
(Source: The Canadian , 21 December 2007, http://www. covered with vitreous sand. But the Gobi has a number of other
agoracosmopolitan.com/home/Frontpage/2007/12/21/02021.html) areas of glassy sand which have been known for thousands of
years.
EVIDENCE FOR ANCIENT NUCLEAR WAR Albion W. Hart, one of the first engineers to graduate from
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was assigned a project in
Then the Lord rained down fire and tar from heaven upon the interior of Africa. While he and his men were travelling to an
Sodom and Gomorrah, and utterly destroyed them... almost inaccessible region, they first had to cross a great expanse
— Genesis 19:24 of desert. At the time, he was puzzled and quite unable to explain
a large area of greenish glass which covered the sands as far as he

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y previous article in The Canadian, in which I reflected could see. "Later on during his life," wrote Margarethe Casson in
upon my book Worlds Before Our Own , provoked Rocks and Minerals (no. 396, 1972), "he passed by the White
dozens of enquiries from readers. Some stated that one Sands [Nevada] area after the first atomic explosion there, and he

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recognized the same type of silica fusion which he had seen fifty Between India's Ganges River and the Rajmahal Hills are
years earlier in the African desert." scorched ruins which contain large masses of stone that have been
In 1947, in the Euphrates Valley of southern Iraq, where certain fused and hollowed. Certain travellers who have ventured to the
traditions place the Garden of Eden and where the ancient heart of the Indian forests have reported ruins of cities in which the
inhabitants of Sumer encountered the man-god Ea, exploratory walls have become huge slabs of crystal due to some intense heat.
digging unearthed a layer of fused green glass. Archaeologists The ruins of the Seven Cities, located near the equator in the
could not restrain themselves from noting the resemblance that province of Piauí, Brazil, appear to be the scene of a monstrous
the several-thousand-year-old fused glass bore to the desert floor chaos. Since no geological explanation has yet been construed to
at White Sands, New Mexico, after the first nuclear blasts in fit the evidence before the archaeologists, certain of those who
modern times had melted sand and rock. have investigated the site have said that the manner in which the
The Mojave Desert has large circular or polygonal areas that stones have been dried out, destroyed and melted provokes
are coated with a hard substance very much like opaque glass. images of Sodom and Gomorrah.
French researchers discovered the evidence of prehistoric
Vitrified Structures, Scorched Ruins spontaneous nuclear reaction at the Oklo mine at Pierrelatte,
While exploring Death Valley in 1850, William Walker Gabon. Scientists found that the ore of this mine contained
claimed to have come upon the ruins of an ancient city. An end abnormally low proportions of U-235, such as found only in
of the large building within the rubble had had its stones melted depleted uranium fuel taken from atomic reactors. According to
and vitrified. Walker went on to state that the entire region those who examined the mine, the ore also contained four rare
between the Gila and St John rivers is spotted with ruins. In each elements in forms similar to those found in depleted uranium.
of the ancient settlements he found evidence that they had been Although the modern world did not experience atomic power
burned out by fire intense enough to have liquefied rock. Paving until the 1940s, there is an astonishing amount of evidence that
blocks and stone houses had been nuclear effects may have occurred in
split with huge cracks, as if seared by prehistoric times, leaving behind sand
some gigantic cleaver of fire. melted into glass in certain desert
Perhaps even more than the large areas, hill forts with vitrified portions
areas of fused green glass, I am In other parts of the ruins, large of stone walls, and the remains of
intrigued by the evidence of vitrified sections of brickwork had been ancient cities destroyed by what
cities and forts, such as those appears to have been extreme heat—
discovered by Walker. scorched into a vitrified state. far beyond that which could have
There are ancient hill forts and Several masses of brickwork been applied by the torches of
towers in Scotland, Ireland and primitive armies.
England in which the stoneworks had been rendered into a In each instance, the trained and
have become calcined because of a completely molten state. experienced archaeologists who
great heat that had been applied. encountered such anomalous finds
There is no way that lightning could have stressed the point that none of
have caused such effects. these catastrophes had been caused
Other hill forts, from the Lofoten by volcanoes, by lightning, by
Islands off northern Norway to the Canary Islands off northwest crashing comets or by conflagrations set by humankind. ∞
Africa, have become "fused forts". Erich A. von Fange
commented that the "piled boulders of their circular walls have (Source: The Canadian , 31 December 2007, http://www.
been turned to glass...by some intense heat". agoracosmopolitan.com/home/Frontpage/2007/12/31/
Çatal Hüyük in north-central Turkey, thought to be one of the 02061.html)
oldest cities in the world, appears, according to archaeological
evidence, to have been fully civilised and then, suddenly, to have About the Author:
died out. Archaeologists were astonished to find thick layers of Brad Steiger, born in Fort Dodge, Iowa in 1936, has been
burned brick at one of the levels, called VIa. The blocks had been writing on themes including the phenomenal and paranormal
fused together by such intense heat that the effects had penetrated worlds, prehistoric mysteries, spirituality and UFOs since 1956
to a depth more than a metre below the level of the floors, where and now has more than 2,000 articles and 165 books (some
it carbonised the earth, the skeletal remains of the dead and the co-authored with his wife Sherry Hansen Steiger) to his credit.
burial gifts that had been interred with them. All bacterial decay Brad Steiger has appeared on a variety of TV and radio
had been halted by the tremendous heat. programs, been interviewed for numerous press articles,
When a large ziggurat in Babylonia was excavated, it presented scripted feature films and written biographies as well as
the appearance of having been struck by a terrible fire that had inspirational and fiction works. The syndicated television
series Could It Be A Miracle? featured Brad and Sherry in 22
split it down to its foundations. In other parts of the ruins, large
episodes.
sections of brickwork had been scorched into a vitrified state.
Steiger's Worlds Before Our Own (which includes his new
Several masses of brickwork had been rendered into a completely
foreword for this 2007 edition), his newest book S h a d o w
molten state. Even large boulders found near the ruins had been World: True Encounters with Beings from the Darkside (2007)
vitrified. and other titles including Conspiracies and Secret Societies:
The royal buildings at the north Syrian site known as Alalakh or The Complete Dossier (2006; co-written with Sherry Hansen
Atchana had been so completely burned that the very core of the Steiger) and Real Ghosts, Restless Spirits, and Haunted Places
thick walls was filled with bright red, crumbling mud-bricks. The (2003) are available from Amazon.com.
mud and lime wall plaster had been vitrified and basalt wall slabs For more information or to contact the author, go to the
in some areas had actually melted. website http://www.bradandsherry.com.

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