Re: Were Africans living in Taupo, New Zealand in 630BC?
- From: Eric Stevens <eric.stevens@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 11:53:58 +1200
On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 10:20:51 +1200, benlizross <benlizro@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Jack Linthicum wrote:
Please note that the source is called "Stuff" which can be both a verb
and a noun.
Wednesday, 25 Apr 2007
Were Africans living in Taupo in 630BC?
Rob Ritchie's approach to his archaeology is different to others in
the field and his non-conservative theories have earned him more than
one cold shoulder.
He has a collection of 25,000 photographs of rocks and artifacts that
he says illustrate people lived around Lake Taupo at least 20,000
years before the Maori or European came to New Zealand.
I believe Lake Taupo is known as a centre of psychic power vortices
which manifest themselves in the form of "raving loons".
He picked up his skills while assisting amateur archaeologist Ross
Wiseman with his research prior to publication of Ross's book New
Zealand's Hidden Past.
Now there's some credentials!
[snip]
One rock has the same feature as "a famous South American drawing
containing a crocodile and an elephant trunk".
Because of that similarity, he is sure whoever engraved the crocodile
was from Copan, of the Maya empire, in the Yucatan Peninsula - as has
been determined in the "famous" drawing.
This find, Mr Ritchie says, is contentious as it proves that South
America had contact with India or Africa.
He says many of the faces have been drawn in cartoon fashion and their
similarities with other rocks are too regular to be a coincidence "and
reveal a lifestyle of those times".
"But it's been done in New Zealand. These people were advanced and
came here from those cultures because their people became too corrupt,
so they made art that ridiculed what they had left behind."
The father and daughter rocks (pictured below) Mr Ritchie estimates to
be from 630BC.
Wot, no pictures??!
This, he says, is supported by his view that African people were
living around Taupo about 630BC as they are often associated with the
drawings of the Peruvians of those times.
Another document Mr Ritchie considers supports his views is Peter
Buck's genealogy on the Mori Ori family tree.
In it, he says, Peruvians arrive in New Zealand in 630BC.
OK, enough scoffing, but I really would like to know where he found
_this_. George? Eric? Any idea?
I haven't the faintest idea of where he found all this stuff but I
would say any BC date for the creation of of several thousand
artifacts found lying on the surface is most unlikely for the simple
reason that in 186 AD Taupo launched one of the greatest eruptions of
the last 5000 years. See
http://www.nzgeothermal.org.nz/geothermal_energy/education/enlarge/eruptions.asp
Anything lying around on the surface will be well buried by now.
Eric Stevens
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