It has been suggested that the hole could only have been
created by a projectile travelling at a very high speed, and the only natural
phenomena that could account for the size and speed would be a small meteorite.
Yet such a meteorite would have burnt up long before hitting the ground.
Logically therefore, whatever caused the hole must have been artificial in
construction. Given our accepted world history, it is impossible that
something artificial could have breached the animal's skull several thousands of
years ago. Therefore, there must be a third explanation and the only one would
appear to be that, for whatever reason, the skull of the now extinct animal was
discovered and injured within last few hundred years.
However, this
explanation, however bizarre, cannot be true either, for there is no doubt that
the aurochs was alive when its skull was breached; the calcification around the
aperture is evidence of that. Indeed, the animal survived the wound and died
years later from other causes, leaving a significant puzzle. This discovery of hole in the extinct aurochs is similar to
that found in the skull of a 40,000-year-old Neanderthal discovered near Broken
Hill in then Rhodesia in 1921. On the left of the skull is a perfectly round hole.
There are no radial cracks that would have resulted had the hole been caused by
a weapon such as an arrow or a spear. Again, only a high-speed projectile such
as a bullet could have caused the aperture.
Indeed, further evidence of the bullet theory comes from the
fact that the skull area directly opposite the hole is shattered, having been
blown out from the inside. No projectile slower than a bullet could have
produced either the neat hole or the shattering effect and a German forensic
scientist from Berlin has confirmed that the cranial damage to the skull could
not have been caused by anything but a bullet. It could be argued, that someone, for some reason, decided to
shoot the skeleton leaving behind only a minor mystery, or, as opposed to the
aurochs (which is known to be extinct), the skull is not as old as it is claimed
to be. Neanderthal man's skull, however, cannot be easily mistaken for modern
man's style, and this skull in particular, has been exhibited at the Museum of
Natural History in London, where a mistake is unlikely to have been made. The
skeleton was also found 60 feet below the surface; only a period of several
thousand years could account for the accumulation of such a deposit.
As with the mysteries detailed in the previous chapter, these
puzzles appear out of context with our knowledge of world history, again
suggesting that perhaps our history should be rewritten to accommodate all known
facts, not just the ones that fit comfortably into our accepted view and
understanding. A rewriting of history becomes all the more pressing when we
look back beyond the dark-age; for when we do so it suddenly becomes apparent
that modern man has only re-created what has gone before and any pride on
building a 'sophisticated' world should be replaced with a degree of puzzlement
at how we lost our earlier knowledge, skills and technologies. Far from making
steady progress, the last 12,600 years actually appears to represent the descent
of man.
This can be demonstrated in many ways and should actually
come as no surprise for many of the problems we face in organising our lives and
society are timeless; they were as pertinent thousands of years ago as they are
today. For example, the ancient Romans would change their street arteries to one
way during peak traffic hours, and the city of Pompeii used arm-waving
traffic policemen to cope with the congestion. Street signs were used in Babylon
more than two and a half thousand years before the present, with catchy names
such as The Street On Which No Enemy Ever Tread. We now know the ancient city of Antioch was the location of the
first street lighting known in history and that the Aztecs set a permanent
coloured strip directly into the paved road in order to divide the two lanes of
traffic (whilst our roads only have painted lines to achieve the same effect.)
Excavations at Mohenjo Daro, Harappa and Kalibanga in Pakistan and India also
show that town planning was in existence 4,500 years ago; the streets of these
ancient cities were straight and the blocks rectangular. A complex water supply
and drainage system was also discovered. Similarly there is evidence of a complex underwater system in
the ancient ruins of Chavin de Huantar high in
the Peruvian Andes, dating to 500 BCE. At its peak, Chavin de Huantar (above)
covered 105 acres and its population numbered around 3000, an unusually large
size for Peru at the time (10). Archaeological constructions of the main ceremonial area of the
site show a series of temples that rank amongst the oldest in the world, with
one principle temple (11). Under Chavin de Huantar lies a network of finely
constructed stone channels that drew water from a nearby river and carried it
underneath the site by way of a sophisticated hydraulic system (12). Four thousand years ago wealthy Koreans had Spring Rooms
warmed by hot air, which circulated in vents under the floors, and the
Romans used a similar design. (Recent central heating was only invented towards
the end of the 17th Century by Bonnemain and perfected by
Duvoir.)
At the same time in history private toilets with a central
system of stone drains and ceramic pipes were common in the city of Knossos,
Crete. Similarly the rooms of the Palace of Minos were ventilated through
air-shafts. With its air-conditioned chambers, excellent bathrooms and toilets,
the palace was not only modern in the way it was equipped, but also very large;
similar in size to Buckingham Palace. Pipes for hot and cold water have also
been found in tiled bathrooms at Chan Chan in South America a time when such
comforts were unheard of in Europe.
Not only did the infrastructure of some buildings compare
favourably with modern day equivalents, but also their furnishings: The
prehistoric city of Catal Huyuk in Turkey is over 8,500 years old, yet pieces of
carpet have been found in the ruins that could compete well with the best woven
carpets available today. Such skills were equally evident in a discovery made by
Professor Luther S. Cressman of the University of Oregon who came across two
hundred pairs of skilfully made woven-fibre sandals in Lamos Cave in east
Nevada. When a carbon-14 test was made, the sandals were found to be well over
9000 years old (13).
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