mysterious people
Some people still do not see themselves as a community of people.
The earliest inhabitants of the lake Titicaca, Uru Indians living on its periphery, including British Columbia 8 Millennium Development Goals. Oe., For some reason, have left their land and moved to the islands by cane man floating on the lake surface. Until now, their descendants still live on floating islands, supporting strong and frequent storms mainly eat fish and no intention of returning to the fertile coast. The French anthropologist Jean-Insure, long study of this strange tribe, tells the story of indigenous origin:
We are – if they are residents lake, the cat-sun, they are not human. We live here, even before the sun began to illuminate the earth … even at a time when the land was plunged into darkness, and only covered the moon and stars … when Lake Titicaca is much more than now … Even living then our parents. No, not the people … Our blood is black, so the lake does not feel cold nights … Do not speak the language of the people, and people do not understand what they say. Their heads are shaped differently than the rest of the Indians. We are very old, the oldest … We are not people!
In the Gulf Coast with 3 goals IV century BC. Oe. lived in the mysterious Olmec tribe. They developed a mythology pantheon of gods, built great stone buildings, were considered stonemasons and potters excellent.
According to ancient legend, the Olmec (people from the land of rubber trees ") arrived by sea in the territory of Tabasco is now nearly 5,000 years, sages have disappeared and others who inhabit the earth and began to be called by the name of their great leader Uimtoni Olmeca. According to another legend, the Olmecs appeared on the union of divine jaguar and death of the woman.
first and oldest in the city of San Lorenzo Olmec (1400-900 BC. E.), in which, according to archaeologists, the height of 5,000 inhabitants. It is the oldest known today in the pyramids of America built in the form of a cone with a base diameter of about 130 meters. Of the mound of earth pyramids extend two, between which lies a stone mosaic floor in the shape of jaguar faces. San Lorenzo was built playground for ball games, drainage systems and sculptures stone.
In La Venta movements are built monumental land greater than 30 meters. Its construction began in the tenth century BC. Oe. According Calculations by archaeologists, the volume of the pyramid at La Venta was 4.7 million cubic meters for its construction required 800,000 days-man. In the territory the settlement area of the Three Zapotes square kilometers three archaeologists were discovered nearly 50 of the pyramidal hills.
Earth Olmec were decorated with a stone giant head height of 1.5 to 3 meters and weighing 5 to 40 tons. They were discovered American archaeologist Matthew Stirling in 1930. In the first discovery, and then wrote in his report:
The head was Carved from a single mass of basalt rocks. It rested on a foundation of rough stone blocks. After cleaning the floor, his head was pretty impressive sight. Despite the large size, it is carefully and confidently, their proportions are perfect.
thick lips, broad nose and long ears indicate that Olmec anthropological characteristics are more suitable for the black, indigenous people of Central America.
Basalt deposits, which has carved huge heads, a few dozen miles from San Lorenzo. Moving rocks weighing up to 40 tons of these distances over difficult terrain – not an easy task. The famous traveler and scientist Miroslav Stengl in "Secrets of the Pyramid in India" wrote:
Is often said about the difficulties of transporting famous stone statues of Easter Island. But when, during his expedition in Easter Island to compare conditions there with moving moai transport blocks of stone from La Venta – Movements of the Jaguar Indians, "organized in 2500 years before the Polynesian Rapa Nui – I must respectfully bow to the great act …
To accomplish the daunting task of course requires some organization and planning. Olmec civilization hierarchy is characterized by a narrow professionalism, religious issues, and administrative Economic trained participants.
In addition to the head, the ancient Olmecs left, and other examples of monumental sculpture – Stone stele carved with images, the sarcophagi with reliefs. They are all carved stone monoliths of basalt or sustainable. Jaguar indigenous hands "were created and the various ornaments worn under clothing, jewelry – most of obsidian, jasper and jade.
The most common figures in the reliefs – Anthropomorphic images of jaguars and the baby jaguar. Maybe the people Jaguars made the same role that Egypt Thoth in ancient Egypt has been tutoring individuals or supervisors appointed by the gods. This "guard" was to inspire not only respect but also fear.
Where did the Olmecs of South America, and miss this amazing nation – these questions scientists have not yet been answered. It seems that Olmec worked on a rotation system in the mines of the newcomers, who were returned to their countries of origin when the need more work. The territory inhabited by the Olmec, just found a burial. Six of the remains of bodies, covered with decomposing tissue, which archaeologists have discovered one of the buildings may belong the Olmecs, who died of accidents, or other Indian tribes who used the ancient Olmecs built to bury their dead.
The ancient peoples of South America, in general, there was something strange. Its peak Chavín, Wari, Paracas, Nazca soon forgotten. Presented much speculation on the collapse mysterious ancient civilizations, but a consensus, scientists have not yet arrived.
During the XVIII-XVII centuries BC. Oe. in the steppe region of South Ural developed the civilization of the Bronze Age with the provisional name of "People inside ", A contemporary of Stonehenge, the famous palace of the Cretan-Mycenaean culture and the pyramids of Egypt's Middle Kingdom. In the Territory, which extends along the eastern slopes of the Urals (400 kilometers from north to south and 200 km from east to west), now known for more than two dozen mounds ancient cemeteries and hundreds of small fortified villages involved. Unique in its conservation and cultural Arkaim complex studied was detected in 1987.
This fortified village, the largest metallurgical center for the production of bronze and an astronomical observatory. The city was surrounded by two rings old walls, its thickness at the bottom is 4-5 meters. The outer wall was built with wooden crates, were killed primer with the addition lime, and faces off rough blocks. Around the excavated trench depth of 1.5 to 2.5 meters. Two townhouses bypasses to the wall. In the city center in a circle with a diameter of 25-27 meters slightly flattened. Under the ring road beyond the hedge trench stormwater drain, where the purified water to drip into the river sand.
The agreement reached many metallurgical furnaces for melting bronze. In the analysis of waste arsenic revealed that residents use as a local metal and transported from other remote areas, probably because of the steppe Kargaly (Orenburg region). Required to melt the coal is introduced into this area of the steppe outside, and the source of tin, a component of bronze, but inexplicable.
copper objects from the excavations are almost never found that very strange for institutions, where the metal is melted in large (for now) scale. Maybe residents bronze negotiated with neighboring countries, but the tribes living near bronzes would be in excess, which is not compatible with the excavations archaeological. Where did the molten metal – is unknown.
The biggest mystery is the fate of this civilization. According to archaeological data obtained in the sixteenth century BC. Oe. residents of all the colonies "Land of Cities", at the same time gathered their belongings, burned the town and disappeared in an unknown direction. No signs of invasion by other tribes in their territory, has been revealed.
Without doubt, in a distant past some have reached a high level of development of civilization have died from various accidents occurred at 10 500 and 3500 years before Jesus Christ. Oe. The first disaster was caused by the passage of a massive object near the planet. The second – the flood that killed almost all The population of the Earth. Descendants miraculously survived the cataclysms of people still live in different parts of the world.
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