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Sunday, 27 January 2008 |
| |  | | | | This article has a few interesting (non-error) errors that I will point out in brackets (This artical first was plublished here ) | | | |
Carved and Drawn Prehistoric Maps of the Cosmos Ancient star chart carved in ivory mammoth tusk The Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies A European researcher has interpreted carvings in a 32,500-year-old ivory tablet as a pattern of the same stars that we see in the sky today in the constellation Orion. | |
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| "The tablet is a sliver of ivory from the tusk of a mammoth — a large woolly animal like an elephant. Mammoths are extinct today. Carved into the ivory is what appears to be a carving of a human figure with outstretched arms and legs. The pose suggests the stars of Orion, according to Michael Rappenglueck, formerly of the University of Munich, known for his interpretation of ancient star charts painted on walls of prehistoric caves." | (1. This pose looks like the Ka-nesi-umsu a position that is on the temple walls in (Kem) egypt and was also used later by masons as their grand hailing sign as seen Below. this photo is from a lecture by Ashra Kwesi) KEMET NU PRODUCTIONS
| The ivory tablet has notches carved on its sides and back, which are not understood but might be an ancient pregnancy calendar to estimate when a woman would give birth.
The tiny piece of ivory was in a cave in the Ach Valley in the Alb-Danube region of Germany when it was discovered in 1979. Scientists used a process known as carbon dating to check the age of bone ash found next to the tablet. Carbon dating is used to determine the age of an old material by measuring its content of carbon 14. Results of carbon dating tests on the nearby bone ash suggested that the tablet might be between 32,500 and 38,000 years old . (Webmaster note: The Out of Africa scenario has dates going back to 50,000 ) and If correct, that would make it one of the oldest drawings of a human ever found.
Stone Age people. The tablet probably was carved by a member of the Aurignacian people. Little is known about Aurignacians, except that they moved into Europe from the east replacing the Neanderthals who had been living there. Neanderthals were the original Stone Age "cavemen" who occupied Europe and parts of Asia and north Africa for 150,000 years before modern humans arrived. They made stone tools and other artifcats. Neanderthals now are an extinct human species.
| | (2. If the tablet is 32,000 years old why is the artical going back now 150,000 years when we know that pre-dynistic egypt extends back to at least 52,000 years as per Gerald Massey's book "Ancient Egypt the light of the world" ) |
Aurignacians were similar early humans. Like Neanderthals, they made stone tools as well as figures of stone and bone, graphic artwork, and clothing with adornment. The Stone Age was a time when the earliest chipped stone tools were made, from about 750,000 years ago to about 15,000 years ago. That was a time when northern glaciers appeared and receded. Species related to humans were widespread. By the end of the period, numerous land mammals, such as mammoths, mastodons and saber-toothed tigers, had become extinct. | | A tiny artifact. The ivory tablet is small, measuring a mere 1.5 x 0.5 x 0.2 inches. The archaeologists working with it say they think that was its original size and that it is not a fragment of a larger artifact. A human figure with legs apart and arms raised is on one side of the tablet. The figure's waist is narrow and its left leg is shorter than the right. Between the legs may be a sword. The human figure could be a person praying or dancing. | | | 4. Or standing in the " Ka-nesi-amsu " stated above | | It could be half-man, half-cat. It might represent a god. By the very definition of pre-history, archaeologists don't know the myths of those ancient peoples who lived before humans started keeping records — before they started recording history. (It was also used later as the grand hailing sign for the masions.)
| | | Orion | | Orion is one of the most noticeable constellations in Earth's sky. Betelguese is one of two prominent stars in Orion. Ancient Egyptians identified their god Osiris with Orion. In fact, Orion has had special significance for many cultures throughout history. The Orion constellation is known to stargazers today as "the hunter." Does the ivory tablet depict the constellation of Orion as it was 32,000 years ago? Did the Aurignacian people also call it the hunter? | | | (5. Whether the Aurignacian did or did not called the constellation the hunter, or if they even know about orion we dont know! But we know that the people of kem knew about orion! We also know that there is a land bridge connecting Africa with Europe .) An area one is able to traverse using small craft! | | Michael Rappenglueck sees in the proportions of the human figure on the table a pattern corresponding to the pattern of stars that form the Orion constellation. He points out the slim waist, which corresponds to a belt of three stars crossing Orion. And, the left "leg" of the hunter in the constellation is shorter. The sword, which may hang between the legs of the figure on the ivory tablet, might correspond with a feature of the Orion constellation. Pregnancy calendar. The 86 notches on the tablet may relate to the human gestation period. The number 86 might have two significant meanings: First, 86 is the number of days that must be subtracted from a year to equal the average number of days of human gestation. Second, 86 is the number of days that the Orion star Betelguese is visible. Could this have linked human fertility with gods in the sky in the minds of the Aurignacian people.
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