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Graham Hancock, in a History Drops cut, treats giant stonework as a problem for the usual dates. At Baalbek he accepts the temples as Roman, then asks why a wall of three 900 ton blocks stands apart from that temple, and why still heavier blocks were left in the quarry. In the Andes he separates some of the largest masonry from later Inca walls, and he links H shaped blocks at Tiwanaku with similar shapes at Gobekli Tepe. He does not claim that Anatolian builders carried the pattern to the Americas. Solstice sightlines, on his reading, fit Tiwanaku better near 10500 BC than in recent millennia, and a carved beast looks to him like a creature from the end of the cold. The wider argument is that very old stone construction sits in plain sight and has been dated too late. He adds regions barely walked by field teams, above all a Sahara that was once green, plus coasts drowned when seas rose, from Southeast Asia to steps under the water off Japan.
Key points
- Hancock accepts the Baalbek temples as Roman but treats the huge wall and the heavier quarry blocks as a separate problem.
- He argues that people who had already shaped those stones would have reused them rather than walked away.
- Matching block shapes at Tiwanaku and Gobekli Tepe are, for him, a link that does not require an Anatolian voyage to the Andes.
- He reads solstice lines, and an animal carving, as signs that Tiwanaku belongs to the end of the cold epoch rather than to recent centuries.
- Large regions, including the Sahara when it was fertile, have barely been walked by field teams.
- Drowned coasts and underwater stonework off Japan belong, in his view, to the same unfinished map.
Short quotes
They'd have sliced them up like loaves of bread and used the already shaped blocks in other constructions.
Graham Hancock, The Worldwide Megalithic Mystery
He rejects the idea that crews would shape enormous quarry blocks and then simply leave them unused. Watch at 2:13
Now, I'm not saying that people from Göbekli Tepe brought that idea to the Americas.
Graham Hancock, The Worldwide Megalithic Mystery
The shared block shape is a clue for him, not proof that Anatolian people carried it to the Andes. Watch at 6:02
Okay, I suggest strongly that evidence for much earlier megalithic construction is hiding in plain view and has been misdated by archaeology.
Graham Hancock, The Worldwide Megalithic Mystery
This is the thesis of the talk, that early stone monuments are visible and have been dated too late. Watch at 8:35
So, this map is showing present land masses and the sunken land masses that were submerged at the end of the ice age.
Graham Hancock, The Worldwide Megalithic Mystery
Old charts, in his telling, still show land that went under when the seas rose. Watch at 13:10
Oddly enough, exactly the same stone cutting technique is found underwater at Yonaguni.
Graham Hancock, The Worldwide Megalithic Mystery
At the Japanese site he says the underwater cuts match a technique seen on dry monuments. Watch at 19:15
Video by History Drops. Watch on YouTube.