Part 1. Primitive
In everyday life, most of us unknowingly use the term "stone age" to refer to something archaic, outdated, primitive and crude, such as a Legend 401 tape recorder, a skin scraper or a stone sword. Are we right? I propose to figure it out.
Slate sword found in Sakhalin in the mid-20th century.
Archaeologists immediately tried, and dated the artifact to some sort of "shaggy" millennium BC.
Primitive.
Undoubtedly, we have before us a weapon created by a primitive handicraft method, but does this mean that the sword is thousands of years old? Do we see little of the "hack" created today?
Once in an extreme situation, a person is looking for any way out of it. For an hour, such that scientists do not have weighty arguments to explain the possibility of implementing such.
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For example: In one of the correctional institutions of the USSR penitentiary system, guarded persons took an employee of the institution hostage, threatening him with a Makarov pistol. Subsequently, the investigators were shocked by the fact that the “pistol” turned out to be a skillfully made dummy of simple bread crumb, painted in black (metal parts) and brown (plastic grip). The resemblance to the original was exceptional. Now this material evidence is kept in the closed museum of the Military Law University in Moscow.
It was not by chance that I turned to the history of the penitentiary system for an example. Remember what Sakhalin Island was like for Russia? Right. One big prison. The same as the island - Alcatraz prison in California, and the British Isles in Europe. Now, with a high degree of probability, it can be assumed that the tool found on Sakhalin by archaeologists has nothing to do with savages from the Stone Age. It is possible that it was made by an ordinary convict, with unusual abilities, who conceived an escape, or something else, for which at least some kind of weapon is required. And since the convicts had a tangible shortage of materials and tools for making reliable and effective weapons, the stone, which is in abundance on Sakhalin, could serve as an excellent help at least to get hold of a saber or even a rifle, why not?
So, the first conclusion: The dating of the artifact according to the quality of its execution, adopted in archeology, is fundamentally wrong.
As an example, we can refer to the history of the blacksmith craft of Pskov. If in the Middle Ages the export of iron-iron products was one of the main sources of income for Pleskavia, for which, in fact, the Pskovites got the nickname "skippers" (those who forge high-quality brackets), then the crafts of the Pskov blacksmiths of the late nineteenth century cause only a smile.
Play of nature.
I'll start again with an expression that each of us used at least once in his speech. There are many options, but the key concepts are "play" and "nature". For example, to the enthusiastic oohs and oohs and oohs of exalted tourists, someone will certainly say: "Mother nature can create something else." Or something like that.
And now we open our eyes and look around meaningfully, not paying attention to anything we have heard before. Let's try to critically evaluate the very concept of "creation of nature".
Let me explain. Nature cannot create anything!
Do not rush to refute. I've heard this all a thousand times, and here are my arguments:
What "tools" of creation does this notorious nature possess?
- Temperature differences, - Atmosphere pressure, - the level of air humidity and water bodies, - air speed, - the chemical composition of the environment, - intensity and quality of illumination, - impact on the environment of vegetation, fauna and objects of "inanimate nature" (sand, stones, etc.), - tectonic processes, This also includes a lot of factors, such as electricity, electromagnetic fields, ultraviolet radiation, etc. known to science and not yet discovered "tools". Now ask yourself a question: - "Which of the listed, and not mentioned here," tools "can at least at a stretch be called instruments of production or means of creation"?
Not a single one! The whole list looks like an inventory of items seized from a sadist maniac. All of the above are means of destruction and destruction. Nature is a sadist, a destroyer of the created. Who created it, that's another question. But at least someone remained with us, who doubts that the universe was created artificially and truly brilliantly? In my opinion, the fact is obvious. Once, everything that we see and do not see, due to the limitations in the means of knowing the world, was created by some creator, but for some reason abandoned and forgotten (although this is not a fact, I admit that we are all just in the process of creation), and is now being destroyed by nature.
Obviously, everything that is created by the mind tends to return to its original form, i.e. to chaos. Never before has nature created a gearbox for a tractor, or even an ordinary brick. But the forces of nature successfully erase right angles, edges and edges, turning everything built into ruins, then into rounded shapeless formations, and ultimately into dust.
Yes, heat and frost, expansion of frozen water, water flows and winds with sand can give the most bizarre shapes to stones. ADD, I stress, but DO NOT CREATE. These concepts are almost the opposite.
Nature is capable of blowing up a volcano and scattering everything that was previously at the site of the eruption to dust. She is able to overthrow the plains and entire mountain ranges along with what was on them into tartar. But never before, never has nature created a single parallelepiped. Understanding these simple rules, otherwise you start evaluating objects that you have not paid any attention to before. And the one who has read to this place, will be able to consciously, so to speak, reinforced with knowledge, will find very interesting things in the subsequent photos.
All these are the results of expeditions of the current 2013. And although we did not manage to collect too much materials for objective reasons, what we have can not but please. Let's start with the Urals.
Part 2. Gold stone
This year, Radik Garipov (ordo1) made another attempt to explore the Kvarkush Pass and the Golden Stone Mountain in the north of the Urals.
The completely impenetrable taiga mystically did not let travelers into their arms. Circumstances developed in such a way, as if someone from above decided to arrange everything in such a way that a person could not get to the most deaf, unexplored nooks of the stone kingdom. Nevertheless, we managed to document something. We look:
I agree, you need to be optimistic to see the ruins of artificial structures in these rubble. The skeptic will demand to show him flights of stairs, columns, statues, etc., i.e. more convincing traces of mind interference. But … Dear ones! I myself am still a skeptic, but I understand that not all ruins were lucky to be born as recently as the Parthenon and Baalbek. Stretch your imagination a bit, and imagine what these structures were not 100 or 500 years ago, but ten, twenty, maybe hundreds of thousands of years ago. Nature has diligently restored its appearance. From a rounded boulder, a cube will not work, but on the contrary - easily. And in a matter of years. Now I propose to go to another hard-to-reach place, which is also inextricably linked with the deposits of precious metals. Forward! To the Kolyma!
Part 3. Omsukchan
My fellow countryman and close friend Igor Smirnov (brat_egoriy) provided a photo from his expedition to the Omsukchan hills. I am quoting an excerpt from his letter: - “12 stones are translated from Even.
In fact, there are much more of them, they are located on three hills adjacent to Omsukchan, and on the farthest hill there is a whole fortress wall (but today I did not get to it, it was too far to go, there was not enough time). But I visited the center hill, climbed everything and took pictures. The weather was not lucky, there was a dense fog with rain, I came from there wet through and through. But at times, the wind dispersed the fog and it was possible to click something. Nevertheless, the impressions were the most enthusiastic, I sat on the stones and imagined how good it should be here in sunny weather."
And now the photo, I recommend it in full size (click on the picture!). Photo captions are copyright:
12 stones. Bottom view.
This is what a hill with 12 stones is made of.
Stones close up.
Indian or Arian.
The wall on the third hill.
The stones are very close.
Stones on the second hill.
The pyramid.
The pyramid. Bottom view.
On my own I will add that this subject excited me incredibly. This is undoubtedly ceramic, moreover, glazed on the outside. The new one could look like modern porcelain.
Rocks or walls.
Cut or chop.
Nature, you say … Well, well …
Seid, or the remains of a statue.
A seid or a statue is a different angle.
A grotto in the wall, or rather a drain hole.
Sawed bottom of the foundation.
Crack or joint.
The ribs are too straight to be natural.
I will summarize the photos sent:
- Like all megalithic structures, the Twelve Stones are located in the precious metal mining area. The Dukat mine is the largest on the planet in terms of gold and silver deposits. In such a place, something simply could not but be built, because where there is gold there are certainly traces of an unknown civilization. This applies not only to the Urals, Altai, Primorye, Krasnoyarsk and Khabarovsk regions, but also world-famous Cuzco, Tiahuanaco, Pisaki, Machu Picchu, etc.
- The abundance of red, brown and yellow stones indicates a high content of iron in them. It is possible that the structures were originally combined, using a large number of steel parts, but in this case, when it comes to tens and hundreds of thousands of years, the metal diffused with minerals, forming such bizarre remains.
- The nature of the objects is extremely similar to the so-called outliers, to which Mikhail Efimenko and Alexey Okladnikov paid much attention in their studies. The essence of the hypothesis is that walls and pillars could be created by successively pouring thin layers of plastic mass, which quickly hardened, turning into stone.
Now I propose to follow Georgy Sidorov to the Kemerovo region. to the junction of Altai and Sayan Mountains, to a mountainous taiga region called Gornaya Shoria. The region is simply "trampled" by tourists, it is very popular with climbers and especially skiers. This is the trouble. In addition to sports, athletes usually have little interest in life, so they see what they want to see: the beauty of nature. And they completely do not notice the obvious, that they are having fun on the ruins of a giant city.
Part 4. Mountain Shoria and Amer Pillars
Here is our dear Georgy Alekseevich standing at the "brick" at the base of the wall. Impressive? And you say Baalbek, Baalbek … Yes, Baalbek is just a dwarf in comparison with what is in front of you in the photo. But SCIENCE does not notice the elephant at close range!
I will repeat myself, but I consider it necessary to constantly point out that it is necessary to constantly remember the venerable age of structures that science considers natural formations. If the objects survived worse than the well-known and advertised ones, this does not mean that they are no longer man-made. They are just much older, and it is not their fault that in the future they will turn into an ordinary heap of stones, and then into sand.
The Amur Pillars, which are also very well known to tourists, and which are just as stubborn about natural monuments, have come down to us in about the same deplorable state. Let's take a look now at these "natural formations".
Mount Shaman.
The architect and geologist Mikhail Vasilyevich Efimenko devoted a lot of time and effort to the study of this phenomenon. In his book "Our Babylon" he expressed several hypotheses that deserve the closest attention, but more on that below, first the most "delicious":
How is it? Do you need any other comments, explanations? Why should I believe what is written, and not believe my own eyes? In my opinion, it is obvious that a great civilization once existed on the territory of our country, and its traces remained not only in the form of ruins of megalithic structures. There are also smaller artifacts, such as the pyramid from Omsukchan, which I showed above, and such as those collected by Mikhail Efimenko. To my great regret, I can only show the photos copied from his book, and they are black and white, however, what is seen on them is more than enough to take care of the safety of his own mind.
Part 5. Sheremetyevo village
Sheremetyevo is a very small village in the Vyazemsky District of the Khabarovsk Territory. Founded quite recently, in 1860. with a population of 830 people. No one has ever “from ours” mined or processed stone here. The first settlers were surprised to look at the many petroglyphs with images of animals that were not found here in the foreseeable history, and even the remains of which have not been found. Could the dense Nanai have captured monkeys on the stone?
But not only and not so much petroglyphs interested Efimenko. As a professional architect, he was most impressed by the found building blocks, which are scattered in abundance in the surrounding area, but no one can say anything intelligible about their origin.
This method of processing Efimenko is known from the institute textbooks. In them he unmistakably recognized the ancient Greek architectural school. In general, he revealed many parallels between the building culture of the ancient Far East with the architectural traditions of Greece and Egypt. However, I found out that this way of processing blocks is literally everywhere. I found stunning samples even in a city as far from granite architecture as Pskov.
Part 6. Pskov bend
Once I was walking along the embankment of the Velikaya River, and turned into an old narrow street, which led me directly to the building of the School-Gymnasium 1 named after L. Pozemsky.
Well, school and school at first glance … But a trained eye will instantly reveal the absurdity that lies in the dissonance between the quality of the building itself and its foundation. Here's a look. No need to go to Greece or Machu Picchu!
Obviously, there are two different schools of masonry here.
Well, where is Comrade Sklyarov with his hundred-dollar bill? What does not poke into the gaps between the blocks?
In principle, there is nothing complicated here. This is done with an ordinary two-handed saw, even mechanization is not required, but the skill of the stone cutters who made the foundation in a small county town is amazing.
And here is the "ancient Greek classics".
From the above, we can confidently conclude that two types of granite blocks were used in the construction of the foundation. They were made using different technologies and at different times. It is necessary to take into account the fact that such a construction method in Pskov has never been used anywhere else. It has been customary here for centuries to build from limestone, which is more than enough, although there is a lot of granite. And the reason, most likely, is precisely the laboriousness of processing granite in comparison with malleable limestone. Where are the stones from?
We study the history of the renowned school, and find out that it was built by the order of Empress Catherine II in 1786. During its history, it was rebuilt many times, but the foundation is actually original to this day. If the builder of St. Petersburg had a hand in this business, then we can assume that the granite blocks for the foundation of the Pskov gymnasium were brought from there, and some of them were made in the eighteenth century, and some were taken from the ruins of what has not come down to us. What was in St. Petersburg, but now it is not! And we are unlikely to ever find out what was dismantled for building materials, some of which were taken to Pskov.
Here are just a few plaques on the facade of the school. This institution was finished at different times by hundreds of celebrities, including such as Bradis and Spegalsky. The abundance of famous Jews is simply striking. To this day, it is difficult to get non-Jews into school. There, OWN is taught OWN, and strangers are not welcome. Is it just a coincidence that the oldest and mysterious school in the city was practically a private Jewish club at all times?
Part 7. Amazing little things
To begin with, I suggest turning your imagination on afterburner mode and trying to guess what you see in this photo?
No, this is not a hamburger bun….
Let's go back to the Far East. There, where the Nanais and their closest northern relatives, the Evens, have lived since ancient times. These peoples settled on the coastal strip and to the west, inland. From the Primorskaya taiga in the south, to the harsh Kolyma rocks in the north, from the Japanese to the Okhotsk Sea.
It was on this territory that geologists made amazing finds, which Mikhail Efimenko put together in a unique collection. It is about them that will be discussed further.
The fact is that the amazing finds were made not by archaeologists at all, but by people who were in the taiga for other specific purposes - geological exploration and geodetic surveys. Therefore, no one knew what to do with the found things, the origin of which science is unable to explain. One can only hope that they will not perish irrevocably, as often happens in such cases.
This is ceramics. What we see prompts only one thought: Someone, as if from a tube, squeezed out a thick paste, which immediately hardened. Does this subject have any practical application? I don't think so. It is a byproduct of producing something else. But the very fact of finding ceramics in the wild rocks of Khabarovsk and Kolyma is amazing. The local natives did not know pottery with this level of technology.
Here is the same pile, squeezed out of the tube, from a different angle.
But these items, very high-tech, are clearly ready-made parts of something. What? Today we do not understand this. This is the case when there is simply nothing to compare with. There is nothing in our life that could even remotely clarify the intended purpose of these objects.
How do scientists work? If there is no explanation, then these are certainly objects of worship. I am sure that if these things got into the museum, a sign next to them would read: - "Stones used by shamans to predict the results of the tribe's walrus hunt." Or something like that. And let someone try to repeat these pebbles now! This is probably possible with a computerized laser machine, but the trick is that this is not stone carving. This is ceramics, and it is of such quality and such strength that it is not inferior to steel, while very light! This level of technology does not yet exist on Earth.
And the main thing. Let's say we repeated these items, then what? Where, excuse me, to shove them? Exactly the same situation could arise if Ivan the Terrible, for example, got into the hands of a digital video camera without a battery.
One thing is certain, the Evens and Nanai did not do this! Or could they?
About borrowed words
You don't have to go far for examples of borrowing foreign words. The Italian language gave the world musical terminology, French - aviation, English - computer. And that's okay.
When I first came to Abkhazia, I just bulged my eyes at the signs: - "Amagazin", "Akinotheatr", "Astadion", etc. It turned out that those concepts that did not exist earlier in the Abkhaz language were borrowed from the Russians, but with the prefix "A" at the beginning of the word. So we can easily determine which words are considered foreign for Abkhazians. Roughly the same thing happened with the language of the Hellenes, which is now considered Greek. There, the endings "is", "mustache", "mind" were added to the borrowed words, which migrated into Latin. Although that is a controversial issue of what is more primary. I, personally, am convinced that - Latin is an artificial language like Esperanto, and those languages that are considered Greek, Middle Greek and Ancient Greek (yes! There are such!), Are secondary in relation to Latin.
It is believed that before the discovery of America in European languages there could be no words meaning the concepts of "potato", "corn", "tobacco", or "tomatoes", since the concepts themselves did not exist. And there is. In Russia, such fruits were not known, therefore, with the appearance of them, the names were also borrowed. Even the word "car" is not Russian, because it came to us along with a concept that did not exist before. Although this is also controversial. A foreign word just stuck in everyday life, which is more suitable for the name of a self-running stroller.
And here is the right time to announce the very important news that Efimenko announced. It turns out that in the Nanai language there is a non-borrowed, quite authentic concept of "self-propelled carriage", pronounced in one word! Once upon a time I marveled at the legend of the Evens, who explain the origin of the Kolyma River by the fact that a giant snake crawled between the hills, and the trail left from its body was filled with water. What kind of nonsense? - I think that reptiles are not found in Kolyma, how could such a word appear in the language of the aborigines?
But that is not all. It turns out that the Nanai language has authentic concepts with the root Nanai words "beans", "corn", "monkey", "elephant", And … hold on! "Road" and "Street lamp" !!!
Well … What should we do with all this now? It turns out that the vernacular language carried to us what the aborigines themselves once knew, but forgot! So they were witnesses of THAT civilization?
This is a 19th century shaman shirt made of fish skin. At first glance, everything is normal, birds, animals, but….
Who is this? It looks like a snake, but kites have no legs! Mythical monster or greetings from a past life?
Let's not guess. Just take note, keep it in mind, and maybe sometime an answer will appear. But first you need to agree with the facts and recognize the obvious: - The Stone Age is not a dense past of the development of our civilization. The Iron Age, in which we actually live now, is only the beginning of development. If we die now, not a single trace will remain of our "highly developed" after a few centuries. But stone technologies that are still inaccessible to us leave material evidence of their existence after tens of thousands of years. And it would be more correct to talk about archaic objects: - “Uh … This is the Iron Age. Such dense grayness! The development of Stone Age technologies is not yet available to us. That's the trick!
