Randall Carlson
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And I think that that can explain why we begin to see, you know, I mean, then say eight to 10,000 years ago, we see the shift from foraging, nomadic hunter gathering to a more sedentary agricultural lifestyle. right around there where it finally stabilizes, more or less. We see the domestication of animals. We see the dispersion of languages.
Between 8,000 and 9,000 years ago, we see some of the first urban complexes showing up. Interestingly, what this tells me is that it took 3,000 to 4,000 to 5,000 years for the... human population to recover enough that we could actually, for example, there was just not enough people to build cities with some important exceptions. Gobekli Tepe is one, which of course you know about. Oh yeah.
Right, yeah. You know, Robert Shock's work on the Sphinx, which I think the Sphinx has to get pushed back. That's a whole other interesting conversation we could have.
Oh, I think it gets pushed back well into the prehistory. I think it preceded what you're seeing here. Yeah. And in fact, if you're going to make the argument of where's the evidence for prehistoric, prehistory, I would say it's monumental stone work.
Because I read a book a number of years ago on what would be just not even catastrophic change, but just if we were to, humans were to abandon the planet and What would we find that we had been here 10,000 years from now?
Well, the cities are gone because you'd see an accelerating deterioration, you know, skyscrapers, you know, if you, once, once the grounding system erodes away, which would take a century, a couple of centuries, now you're going to have constant lightning strikes, which are going to do all kinds of damage. Um, you know, if you have any kind of seismic event at all, Buildings are going to collapse.
I mean, look, look at some of the great bridges of the world are go undergo constant maintenance. There's constantly crews maintaining and they get through and then they start over again. If that ends, well, now the steel girders and I-beams and stuff, they rust away within a few centuries. Boom. What's going to be left in 10,000 years?
Well, in this book, they concluded that two things that might indicate to future archaeologists would be the Great Pyramids and Mount Rushmore. What else? Well, if we build something out of megalithic stones... But we don't, you know, and this raises another interesting question.
You know, I've been a builder for years and, you know, we don't, if we get more than a half a ton or ton, which we can still manage manually, but any more than that, you know, we're going to bring in heavy equipment, right? We're not going to try to move anything.
even a ton, you know, yeah, we can, we can in place a, a 12, a 2000 pound I-beam using manual techniques and we've done it, you know, but anything above that, yeah, we're not even going to attempt it. We're going to bring in heavy equipment right now, you know, we build with stone, but now mostly it's veneer stone.
If it's structural stone, typically start looking at buildings, you know, 19th century, early 20th century built out of structural stone. You know, you're looking at blocks that might weigh 1 to 200 pounds. Why don't we build with stones that are 10 tons or 20 tons or 50 tons? Because it would be totally uneconomical, right?
Well, what would be true for our modern civilization would be 10 times more true for ancient cultures. Yet we find all over the world examples of megalithic stonework.
Okay, now we're supposed to believe that this is hunter-gatherers, that these are nomadic foragers that are, you know, or subsistence farming, that on their leisure time, they're quarrying 20-ton stones, transporting them sometimes hundreds of miles, and they're Okay. We, we could surmise. Okay. We've got, Hey, there's this one tribe and they were insane.
And for whatever reason, they were obsessed with quarrying big stones and moving them over the land. And, but when you find it over and over and over again, yeah, I just don't buy it. I don't buy that. This is all just the result of, of nothing more than manual labor. You know, the, uh, you read the recently, the, the, the, some of the new studies on the altar stone at Stonehenge.
Have you seen any of that?
What is it? Was it six tons or 12 tons? It came from like the Orkney's up in Northern Scotland, at least 450, 460 miles. That stone had to get transported down to Southern England. And, you know, the archaeologists that have been looking at it, I read several articles by them, excuse me, interviews.
And they'll say things like, well, obviously, and it's, you know, they thought that it was one of the typical bluestone rhyolitic stones that came from whales until they took a better look at it and they realized, no, this is actually a third. It's not the sarsen stones that make the big outer rings or the horseshoe, the horseshoe trilithons. It's not the bluestones. It's something different.
So they look in their database, archaeologists have this database that they've been compiling for years, and it's all the different types of rocks that have been studied and where you can find them around the world, right? Forget what it's called, but... So they studied this and they found that they, that the exact match was these rocks up in Northern Scotland, up around the Orkneys.
So then now you had to transport this multi-ton stone 450 to 500 miles. If it's overland, well, now you're going over mountains, across rushing rivers, through thick, dense forests, or you might take it by sea. Then that raises questions about, well, what kind of seafaring craft
would they have been using 5,000 years ago, transporting over the North Sea, which is well known for being, you know, the storms and stuff on the North Sea. I mean, so whether it was by sea or by land, it would have been an extremely challenging thing to undertake. The archaeologists are going, well, they must have had a compelling reason.
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