The oldest man-made structure on Earth?
Rupert came across this website about ancient man-made structures in South Africa in his recent researches. If the dates quoted are to be believed, this is quite one of the most significant discoveries in the archaeological world. I have posted the contents of the page about this one particular site where carvings and astronomical alignments have been found but do take the time to look at the rest of the website which deals with a whole complex of sites over a large area.
ADAM’S CALENDAR
“The Johan Heine Stone Calendar (affectionately called Adam’s Calendar) has been dated by astronomer Bill Hollenbach to be around 75,000 years, based on the movement of the peoples in southern Africa and the emergence of rock art during that period. But it could in fact be even older – dating back to the dawn of Homo sapiens some 250,000 years ago.
The carved edge can be clearly seen, resulting in a sharp edge to cast a clear shadow on the flat calendar rock. The wider monolith became the calendar on which days and weeks were marked as the movement of the sun stretched perfectly from one edge to the other, left to right, and than back again.
Johan Heine is a pilot and explorer by heart. As the head of the fire fighting unit in the forests of Mpumalanga, South Africa, he has been flying over this beautiful mountainous part of the world and exploring it for 20 years. It would be accurate to say that he knows it like the back of his hand. But it was only when he was called out to assist in the search for a colleague who had crashed in the mountains, that he made a discovery that will change how we view our human history. At the edge of a mountain top, he spotted a strange arrangement of giant rocks. Upon his return and closer inspection, this stone calendar site has turned out to be the oldest known man-made site on Earth. Over a 4-year period Johan made many attempts to bring this to the attention of academics with no success. Only when his measurements and findings were presented by default their sudden interest was raised. Over the years many people have seen the ruins and wondered what they meant. The mystery has now been solved, thanks to the persistence and meticulous work by Johan Heine.
For 4 years Johan had been pondering, plotting and photographing his historic discovery. After many attempts to attract the interest from historians and archaeologists had failed, he never gave up his quest to measure the site and establish the ancient and original geographical alignments. Only when his measurements and findings were presented by default then sudden interest was raised. Over the years many people have seen the ruins and wondered what they meant. The mystery has now been solved, thanks to the persistence and meticulous work of Johan Heine.
Adam’s Calendar firmly places the many ancient ruins of southern Africa at a point in history that we modern humans have never faced before – some 75,000 ago. It therefore symbolises the FIRST FREE HUMAN looking at his FIRST SUNRISE as a free species on planet Earth.”
I’m not expert enough to comment on such claims but clearly those dates are crucial and need to be verified. However, apparently there is a book by Johan Heine – visit the site by clicking here.
I think the human race is finally waking up from a long sleep. We know very little about our environment and even less about ourselves.What we think we know is the so called science that is forced down our throats from the time we attend kindergarten.As a civilised people we may be about 4000 years old at best, yet the planet is so much older. How do we not know that our race was not once far greater but destroyed ourselves in some prehistoric war. And so we lost our technology and entered a dark age which we are now just coming out of, and we all feel on this planet that there is a greater purpose for us, only time will tell.I believe we all have this knowledge in us, as it is in the very basic cell structures from which we are made, we are remaking the mistakes of our past as the memory is imprinted in us. Mankind is far older than we know.