Graham Hancock The ringed image is a detail from the famous Gateway of the Sun, Tiahuanaco, Bolivia. The Gateway is generally dated by archaeologists to between BC 200 and AD 600. But if the image is what it looks like, i.e. a species of elephant, then the Gateway of the Sun and Tiahuanaco must be much older than that since the youngest carbon dating for an extinct elephant species that I can find reference to from South America is 6060 BP (i.e. 6060 years ago) -- the species being Cuvieronius hyodon from the Valle del Cauca in Colombia. If the image does represent Cuvieronius then presumably the Gateway of the Sun must be at least 6000 years old, or perhaps much older or, alternatively, the extinction of Cuvieronius in the New World must have taken place MUCH later than is presently thought to be the case. Either way this is an interesting problem in my view and I feel archaeologists should consider its implications seriously rather than trying, as they do at present, to dismiss this image as some sort of optical illusion.
Posted on: Sat, 19 Oct 2013 17:51:34 +0000
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