ET and Archaeology Flashcards
Feder’s Questions
Where is the particular claim or discovery presented
Who is making the claim
How does the person making the claim, or interpreting the results of a study, “know”
Are other experts consulted, and how do they respond to the claims being made?
Is enough information presented for you to make an informed decision concerning the legitimacy of what is being asserted?
Eric Von Daniken
Wrote Chariots of the God in 1968
WIKIPEDIA:
a Swiss author of several books which make claims about extraterrestrial influences on early human culture, including the best-selling Chariots of the Gods?, published in 1968. Von Däniken is one of the main figures responsible for popularizing the “paleo-contact” and ancient astronauts hypotheses.
THE THREE HYPOTHESES OF ERICH VON DÄNIKEN
1) Human beings resulted, not from evolution, but from a combination of alien and ape genetic material. In other words, extraterrestrial aliens mated with our ancestors.
Feder calls this: “The Horny Astronaut Hypothesis”
2) Ancient humans left behind pictorial representations and written descriptions that can be best explained as the images and descriptions by ancient human beings of their eyewitness encounters with extraterrestrial
aliens
Feder calls this: “The Inkblot Hypothesis
3) The archaeological and historical records are filled with examples of great leaps in technology, impossible for human beings to have conceived without help from above. Our ancestors needed an extraterrestrial Peace Corps.
This is usually called the: “Our Ancestors, the Dummies” hypothesis
K’inich Janaab Pakal
Born in 603 AD
Died on August 31st 683 AD
Ruler of Palenque
Ascended to the throne July 29th 615 AD
Inherited the trhone from his mother, Lady Sak K’ uk’
von Däniken claims that the image on the lid of his coffin shows Pakal piloting a rocket.
Rapa Nui (Easter Island)
WIKIPEDIA:
Easter Island is a Chilean island in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, at the southeasternmost point of the Polynesian Triangle in Oceania. Easter Island is most famous for its nearly 1,000 extant monumental statues, called moai, created by the early Rapa Nui people.
Moai
Sculptures created by a Polynesian society that flourished here after 500 CE.
The statutes represent ancestors. There
are still descendants of those people
living on Rapa Nui.
Nazca Lines (370 BCE – 450 CE)
A pre-Columbian giant figure etched into the side of a hill in the Nazca region of Southern Peru.
Nazca PLain
Straight lines, flowers, animals, birds, etc. Designed to be seen fully from above
Intended for sky deities: sun and moon
Maria Reiche
Began mapping the Nazca lines in 1941. Used her background in mathematics to analyze how the Nazca created such huge figures. Lines were very Mathematically precise.
Simple explanation of techniques used to create the lines and analogies to living indigenous tradition in Peru.
