Evidence of prehistoric civilizations?

Found this information at the Burn Your Wings site. I was going to post something else on Ancient Civilization but found this which is facinating evidence to show we may not be the first, to say the least.   

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• 1820 From The American Journal of Science and Arts, 1820 comes the account of an ancient tool discovery.
At a quarry near Aixen-Provence, France, in 1788, 40 or 50 feet below ground in a layer of limestone were found coins, petrified wooden handles of hammers, pieces of other petrified wooden tools, and a quarrymen's board. The limestone was 300 million years old.


• 1822 The American Journal of Science from 1822, north of Pittsburgh an unusually flat rectangular surface, 3 feet long and varying from 5 to 6 inches wide was found. On this flat surface were row after row of evenly spaced, perfect diamond shapes, each with an oblique, raised band across its center. The pattern is too precise to be natural, the diamond shapes too square to be designed by anything but an intelligent hand. In fragments of the impressed rock, were found fossils of primitive jointed plants, dating the find to the Devonian era, 400 million years ago.

• 1822 The American Journal of Science, 1822 reported a number of man track impressions on an outcrop of grayish-blue crinoidal limestone along the west bank of the Mississippi for 3 miles just south of St. Louis. The foot lengths were 10 1/2 inches wide.

• 1826 In a well dug near the Ohio River in north Cincinnati at a level 94 feet down, a buried tree stump was found which showed the marks of an ax. The marks were deep and well cut, indicating the use of a sharp and durable blade. The ax used was confirmed to have been made of metal when, embedded in the top of the stump, an advanced oxidized wedge of iron was found. The layer in which the stump was found was dated to be between 50,000 and 75,000 years old nearly 10 times the accepted age of the supposed first metal usage.

• 1829 From the American Journal of Science, an account sent by a correspondent, to Prof. Silliman, of something that was found in a block of marble, taken November 1829, from a quarry, near Philadelphia. The block was cut into slabs. By this process, it is said, was exposed an indentation in the stone, about one and a half inches by five-eighths of an inch. A geometric indentation: in it were two definite-looking raised letters, like 'I U': only difference is that the corners of the 'U' are not rounded, but are right angles. We are told that this block of stone came from a depth of seventy or eighty feet---or that, if acceptable, this lettering was done long ago.

• 1844 On June 22, 1844, this curious report appeared in the London Times: "A few days ago, as some workmen were employed in quarrying a rock close to the Tweed about a quarter of a mile below Rutherford-mill, a gold thread was discovered embedded in the stone at a depth of eight feet." Dr. A. W. Medd of the British Geological Survey wrote in 1985 that this stone is of Early Carboniferous age between 320 and 360 million years old. Who dropped this gold thread in the ancient fern forests in a distant time when the most advanced life forms on the planet were supposedly amphibians and insects?

• 1867 At the Rocky Point Mine, in Gilman, Colorado, at a depth of 400 feet excavators found human bones embedded in a silver vein and a well-tempered copper arrowhead. The vein was dated at 135 million years old.

• 1867 It is reported that James Parsons, and his two sons, exhumed a slate wall in a coal mine at Hammondville, Ohio, in 1868. It was a large smooth wall, disclosed when a great mass of coal fell away from it, and on its surface, carved in bold relief, were several lines of hieroglyphics.

• 1869 The Los Angeles News of December 17, 1869 reported a smooth slate wall covered with strange alphabetic writing had been discovered in a coalmine at a depth of 100 feet. The letters were raised and well defined. The coal that had covered the wall bore their distinct impression, which means the letters date to a time when the coal was in a vegetable state and had molded itself against the wall. Each sign was three-quarters of an inch in size, and arranged in rows precisely spaced 3 inches apart. The coal was from the Carboniferous era, well over 200 million years old.

• 1870 At Lawn Ridge, 20 miles north of Peoria, Illinois, in August of 1870, as a well was being drilled the pump brought up a small metal medallion to the surface. The strange coin / medallion were composed of an unidentified copper alloy, about the size and thickness of a U.S. quarter of that period. It was remarkably uniform in thickness, round, and the edges appeared to have been cut. Researcher William E. Dubois, who presented his investigation of the medallion to the American Philosophical Society, was convinced that the object had in fact passed through a rolling mill, the edges showed clear evidence of the machining. Both sides of the medallion were marked with artwork and hieroglyphs that had somehow been etched in acid, to a remarkable degree of intricacy. One side showed the figure of a woman wearing a crown or headdress; her left arm is raised as if in benediction, and her right arm holds a small child, also crowned. The woman appears to be speaking. On the opposite side is another central figure, a crouching animal with long, pointed ears, large eyes and mouth, claw-like arms, and a long tail frayed at the very end. Below and to the left of it is another animal, which bears a strong resemblance to a horse. Around the outer edges of both sides of the coin are undecipherable glyphs - they are of very definite character, and show all the signs of a form of alphabetic writing. The stratum from which the coin was extracted was dated between 100,000 and 150,000 years.

• 1877 Prospectors near Eureka, Nevada found a human leg bone and kneecap sticking out of solid rock. Doctors examined the remains and determined they were from a very modern-looking human being, and one that stood over 12 feet tall. The rock in which the bones were found was dated geologically to the Jurassic Period, over 185 million years old.

• 1880 Workmen drilling a well discovered a doll-like figure sometime before 1880 near Marlboro in Stark County, Ohio. The image made of black variegated marble and standing 6 inches tall was unearthed from a depth of 120 feet. The layer in which the doll was found was dated at over 300,000 years.

• 1885 A well driller discovered a little clay doll that had come from below a 15-foot layer of lava rock, 100 feet of sand, 6 inches of clay, 40 feet of more sand, then 165 feet composed of clay, sand, clay nodules mixed with sand, and coarse sand layers for a total of 320 feet. The small "doll" is composed of half clay and half quartz, and though badly battered by time, the doll's appearance is still distinct. It had a bulbous head, with barely discernible mouth and eyes; broad shoulders; short, thick arms, and long legs, the right leg broken off. There are also faint geometric markings on the figure, which represent either clothing patterns or jewelry. The doll is the image of a person of a high civilization, artistically attired. The layer in which the doll was found was dated at over 300,000 years.

• 1921 In Arkansas, north of Finch a large rock-sculptured head of a man was discovered. It stood about 4 feet high, and the figure had a squared, protruding chin, small, tight-lipped mouth, a short nose, and a furrowed brow and stare accented by two flat "buttons" of inlaid gold for eyes. Two more gold discs ornamented the figure's ears, and a heart-shaped plug of copper was embedded in the chest. A carved hood that draped down the nape, and attached around the neck covered the top of the head. Near the head, and in the same layer, a number of smaller objects; a gold ring, a small coffer made of volcanic pumice (which does not exist in this region), and tiny carvings of men, animals, moons and stars were found. The stone sculpture was discovered in the ten-foot layer of gravel. geologically dated at 175,000 years.

• 1927 In Fisher Canyon, Pershing County, Nevada, in January, 1927, an imprint from the heel of a shoe which had been pulled up from the balance of the heel by suction, from the mud when the rock was still in a plastic state at the time. The shoe print was in a layer of Triassic limestone dated at 225 million years old. The rock was later examined at the Rockefeller Foundation, and confirmed to indeed be a shoe heel. Microphotographs revealed that the leather had been stitched by a double row of stitches with the twists of the threads being very discernable.

Pole Shifting, Magnetic Field Reversal, Library at Alexandria, Time Capules and More

This is a facinating subject. More important it's apparently scientifically valid, at least so I've read. But it's not the same as tectonics, or land moving on tectonic plates, which is also one reason for continents, probably most earthquakes, mountains rising, etc. The popular, and accepted knowledge says that the earth is pretty much now as it's always been. At least for the last few million years. It's taught that at one time long, long ago in a place not that far away, there was but a single continent surrounded by water, that over the millions of years to follow slowly split apart and eventually formed the world as we know it.  The accepted theory is that land moved on tectonic plates over millions of years. But, and it's a BIG but, how do we know that's true, or at the very least the whole truth? 
The last pole reversal was about allegedly 700k years ago. At least that's what a website by Ben Tremblay says, and that it can take 5000 years to take place. Several others say the same thing. Not a serious danger it would seem, unless of course we're in the last couple of the 5000 years, that might be a problem.  As it turns out if you believe the Mayans we are in the last couple of years.
But back to the subject, there is a legend that the Himalayas grew overnight, taking Lhasa in Tibet from being a seaside resort to a town high in the highest mountains.  Accepted theory is that the mountains grew over a million years or so from the collision of the Euroasian and the Indoaustralian plates, slowly pushing the Himalayan mountains in stages ever higher and higher. Which is true? Of course which is easier to believe is much easier to answer.  Mountains growing miles in the air overnight??? Please... But that doesn't mean it couldn't be true, right? 
From what I've read a pole shift or magnrtic field shift, has happened many times. It can cause much damage, and change. Mountains grow out of plains, fertile valley's can become deserts or oceans, islands can rise, or sink, civilizations are destroyed to rise again. Where's the proof? 
What we think we know, or believe to be true today, about the past, even the relatively recent past of 4-5000 years ago, let alone before, is more what we think, or want to believe, than fact.  In fact, we know almost nothing about the past farther back than even the dark ages. As a matter of fact, most people know virtually nothing about the past that's more than a few years. This country the USA, has only been around a little over two hundred years, how much of it's history is already lost?
At one time the Library at Alexandria supposedly held thousands of books, to use the contemporary term, that allegedly went thousands of years back into history. Telling what had existed from then back to the flood, now pretty much accepted to be the end of the ice age about ten thousand or so years ago, or perhaps even what had been happening pre-flood.  Maybe, make that surely, there were things that happened during the 4-5000 years we admit and consider history of civilization, that we know nothing about now, but that had been recorded in a book that was in the Library.  Imagine if you could hold in your hands that, or better, recorded histories going back further, 10-15 25-50 thousand years, or more?  If the Roman Catholic fanatics who burned and destroyed the Library had been stopped, think of what we'd know, it makes me sick to think about it.
As it stands, yes we're rediscovering a lot. But most is unprovable. Yes we think there were magnetic reversals, it looks like there were, maybe in the Library there were first hand accounts, newspapers, drawings, pictures...PROOF!!!  Maybe... Maybe... At this point God only knows. 
There are supposed to be time capsules, chambers placed by one or more antidiluvian civilizations possibly, probably,  more advanced that we are, containing then existing machinery, ie cars, airplanes, and other stuff  I can't imagine, probably also books, information, possibly in electronic formats, video, audio, whatever, located around the world.  Kind of like us burying the Library of Congress, and throwing in tapes & DVDs of movies, old radio shows, and the Smithsonian as well as current and past examples of all autos, planes, boats, trucks, cranes, farming equipment, manufacturing machinery, computers w/peripherals, cameras, furniture, and a lot of other stuff I'm not thinking of. Must be a BIIIIIG cave. Finally,  proof, if we ever find them of course. Is anybody even looking?  One is supposed to be under or near the Sphinx, another in central America or South America, another in the Himalayas near Lhasa, another on Atlantis. In a book called The Cave of the Ancients, Lobsang T. Rampa, aka Cyril Hoskins, wrote about visiting the one in Tibet with a group of Lamas when was growing up in a Lamasary in Lhasa. 
Also, speaking of Atlantis, has anybody ever considered that the Americas could be Atlantis? Depending on how you look at it, they're an island in the mid Atlantic. At least they would be to an average ancient Egyptian or Greek. The only real difference is it's further outside the Pillars of Hercules, much further. Something to think about though...
Anyway, it seems reasonable that these time capsules, or caves of the ancients, would also contain period geological information, on earthquakes, field reversals, mountains growing overnight, comets, end of the world floods, or pending floods/loong rain storms, melting glacers, prehistoric global warming or cooling, together with the more mundane, storms, floods, etc. that would answer a lot of questions. A LOT of questions. Am I the only one curious? I doubt it, but it seems like it. How hard could they be to find?  I ask again, is anybody even looking? 

Lee Murray