One of my most treasured books is one by Francis Pryor, an archaeologist who has done much work at Stonehenge, where much evidence has been gathered to arrive at some conclusions about scientific discoveries.  And one of the books by Francis, Britain B.C. I was able to pick up at the actual Stonehenge site.  Over the years, I have been able to correspond with Francis, so I am sympathetic to the archaeologists who do all the hard work digging in the ground.  If you have yet to visit Stonehenge, it’s one of the excellent sites in the world, and they have turned it into a theme park for the consumer.  People who are curious help pay for continued science at the site, increasing our knowledge, which is always something we should be doing.  Just off to the side of the actual dig site of Stonehenge is a long line of tents and RVs that the working archeologists there live in while doing their work.  It is hard work that I respect tremendously. Warm showers are hard to come by as they dig in the dirt day in and day out, living well outside the social parameters of everyday society, and I feel privileged that the summation of that work can be read in books like the ones Francis has written.  Archaeology, like any science, starts with known assumptions, and those opinions can and should alter as more evidence comes in. At Stonehenge, like all other sites around the world, we have started with the idea that primitive hunters and gathers built it to pay reverence to celestial moments, like winter solstice and moon eclipses.  However, the collection of evidence says that primitive cultures made such sites their home after some previous cultures had already built them.  That brings us to the hard reality that we must admit to ourselves to avoid future scandals and an erosion of trust in our educational institutions. 

Stonehenge looks to have been built initially for a race of living creatures who visited the earth from outside our solar system; it’s a clock intended not to measure the movement of the world around the sun but celestial time according to the zodiac, an invention that was not meant to predict the future with advice in the Farmer’s Almanac, but to know when earth was in processional time according to the 25,900 years it takes to move through all the houses of the zodiac.  People visiting Earth would have to know when they were in time, not so much where they were.  So, all over the earth, we see these mounds and stone features that date back to the Ice Age in some places, all concerned with measuring celestial time, which has a very standard rhythm of 433,000 years, much longer than the observance of a single cycle could have utilized.  No matter how good a culture was at math, we are looking at a culture that could know the zodiac elements after a great history of determining its variations over an extremely long period.  Most likely, the evidence of these cultures is long gone, eroded by a very destructive earth.  So, our scale for discovering all this evidence is way off.  We tend to think of Mesopotamian culture and the Egyptians as being old.  But the truth is, they are all very young and share a relationship with people who have already been on earth for a long time.  Just like today, primitive people who didn’t have much technology were around, too, and tended to interact with such sites.  But they didn’t build them. 

That’s no small thing to admit to, but such evidence can even be found in Hamilton, Ohio, near my home at the site known as Fort Hill, which is at the Pyramid Hill preservation complex.  There, we see a giant boar mound in reverence to Aries’s zodiac sign as the earth moves from Taurus processionally.  Embedded in the tail is much information on the Pleiades star system, which would not be known to any primitive people.  This means everything we have assumed about the human race’s origins has been wrong.  The growing evidence found in such sites as Stonehenge does not indicate any evolutionary growth but relatively instant arrival and building things that lasted on the ground for a long time.  Traveling through space has its challenges.  A traveler may arrive instantly based on their internal clocks, but coming and going a lot relative to Earth, tens of thousands of years could have gone by because gravity and time are linked in ways that we are just beginning to unravel.  Gravity makes time work differently relative to its strength.  So, travelers coming to earth would need to know when they arrived, not so much in paying reverence to the gods as pagans viewed such activity.  Stonehenge looks to have been a practical invention to be a clock for celestial travelers.  They made sites like Stonehenge, Avebury, and Serpent Mound in Ohio easy to see from the air and made them out of materials that would withstand the erosion rate.  If you are going to leave a marker for when you get back, just like putting a ribbon on a tree in the forest so you don’t get lost, you want it to be there when you return.  And so it is that the earth is covered with all these markers.  Earth was a global community of visitors from outer space long before the Ice Age existed. 

That doesn’t mean that all the discoveries of arrowheads and bone fragments aren’t relevant.  Science works by putting what you know into a provable pile and building assumptions based on that evidence. But when it comes to unknowns, you put them into another pile.  And that other pile has now added up to the apparent conclusion that Earth was a global culture well before the times of the Bible.  And the people at the time understood that complex problem, even if they never had access to international travel.  They certainly heard the stories and created the mythology we can still study today.  Yet we allow current cultures to lie to us the way they do about fiscal budgets or even religion because they want, like all primitive people from the past, to be the latest versions of gods on earth, like the primitive hunters and gatherers have been for each generation that picked up a rock and threw it at a living thing to attempt to dominate it in some way.  We aren’t just talking about one species of interplanetary traveler, but many of them, and the markers they put on earth are varied but universal in their need to predict processional time celestially.  The need to tell time was the priority and nothing else.  But not time as determined on Earth by a people of the world, but as the planet moves through the galaxy of the Milky Way.  And before we can function from the truth of our ancient past, we must understand that it is far different from the infantile assumptions we have made.  Suppose we are to be a species insistent on the truth. In that case, we must stop diluting ourselves with previous assumptions about social diffusion that are outdated with new evidence beyond the scale of our typical measurements. 

Rich Hoffman