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Celestial Catastrophes in Human Prehistory?

Stonehenge, A Giant Petroglyph?

These press releases were announced by The University of Pennsylvania
Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology on 12 October 2001.

The Society for Interdisciplinary Studies is not connected with the
University Museum, the public talk, nor with Dr Anthony Peratt.
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From the University of Pennsylvania Museum Web site at
http://www.upennmuseum.com/pressreleases/forum.pl?msg=76
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"Celestial Catastrophes" Program Oct. 17

From: [2]University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and
Anthropology
Date: 10/12/2001
Contact: [3]Pam Kosty, Public Information Officer

_PHYSICIST DR. ANTHONY PERATT TO PRESENT NEW FINDINGS THAT LINK
ANCIENT ROCK ART, STONEHENGE, TO WORLDWIDE OBSERVATIONS OF UNUSUAL
SPACIAL OCCURENCE_

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Scientist to Speak at University of Pennsylvania Museum Program
"Celestial Catastrophes in Human Prehistory?"
Wednesday, October 17, 6 p.m.

Philadelphia, PA -- New Mexico physicist Dr. Anthony L. Peratt offers
a provocative new theory about the catastrophic "story" that many of
the worlds petroglyphs, pictographs, rock carvings, rock paintings and
even monuments from antiquity may in fact be telling, when he speaks
on "Talking Rocks" at _Celestial Catastrophes in Human Prehistory?_, a
special program in the Harrison Auditorium, University of Pennsylvania
Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Wednesday, October 17, 6 p.m.

The public program, which runs from 6 to 7:30 p.m. and includes
discussants from several departments in the University of Pennsylvania
and the Museum, is free. A reception with Dr. Peratt and the
discussants, running from 7:30 to 8:30, is $20; $15 for Museum
members. The number for more information or to pre-register for the
reception (through October 15) is 215/898-4890.

Basing his findings on new high technology experimental research, Dr.
Peratt , Associate Laboratory Directorate, Experimental Programs and
Simulation and Computing, Los Alamos National Laboratory, argues that
numerous rock art designs, and even the monument Stonehenge, can be
linked to the recording of a highly visible outer space event that
occurred many millennia ago. Dr. Jeremy Sabloff, the Williams
Director, UPM; Dr. Harold Dibble, Deputy Director, UPM; Dr. Robert
Giegengack, Chairman, Earth and Environmental Sciences at the
University of Pennsylvania; and Dr. Charles Alcock, Reese W. Flower
Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of
Pennsylvania, will respond.

Celestial Catastrophes in Human Prehistory? continues an occasional
series, co-sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania Museum, the
Institute for Environmental Studies, and the Center for Ancient
Studies, on the impact of catastrophic events on human history. Past
programs have examined the impact of volcanoes ("Explosive Volcanism,"
January 17, 2001), asteroids ("Impact Craters in Earth History" May
11, 2000 ) and flooding ("Flooding the Black Sea: Noah and Early
Agriculture?" October 14, 1999). The series is made possible through
the generosity of Mr. and Mrs. A. Bruce Mainwaring.

The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
is dedicated to the study and understanding of human history and
diversity. Founded in 1887, the Museum has sent more than 350
archaeological and anthropological expeditions to all the inhabited
continents of the world. With an active exhibition schedule and
educational programming for children and adults, the Museum offers the
public an opportunity to share in the ongoing discovery of humankind's
collective heritage.

UPM is located at 33rd and Spruce Streets in Philadelphia. The Museum
is open Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and 1 to 5 p.m.
on Sundays; closed Mondays, holidays and summer Sundays from Memorial
Day through Labor Day. Museum admission donation is $5 adults; $2.50
senior citizens and students with ID; free to Museum members, children
under 6, and University of Pennsylvania staff, students and faculty
with a PENNcard, and FREE Sundays, through May 19, 2002. Visit the
Museums website at www.upenn.edu/museum or call (215) 898-4000 for
general information.

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TO THE PRESS: Additional information about Dr. Peratts newest
findings, and a related color jpeg image from Dr. Peratt, are
available upon request.

_The Additional information_

12 Oct 2001

Contact Anthony Peratt Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New
Mexico 87545. Tel: (505) 665 9407, Fax: (781) 240 6457, alp at lanl.gov

Stonehenge, A Giant Petroglyph?

Philadelphia, PA.-- A research scientist from New Mexico will announce
his finding that many items of antiquity including petroglyphs
(pictures carved on rock) are interrelated by world-wide observations
of an intense 'aurora' that may have lasted for centuries. The
discovery follows decades of speculation and debate as to whether or
not an intense electrical storm enveloped the Earth some four thousand
years ago. Anthony Peratt, a physicist at Los Alamos National
Laboratory will give a presentation on 'Talking Rocks' at the
University of Pennsylvania Museum's Celestial Catastrophes in Human
Prehistory? program Wednesday, October 17, 6 p.m. Dr. Peratt made the
discovery by digitally recording many tens of thousands of petroglyphs
in the Southwest while noting their positions and orientations through
global positioning satellites. The data was then processed on a large
computer to look for similarities between the petroglyphs themselves
as well as with other objects made by man thousands of years ago.

Peratt, who studies phenomena associated with intense electrical
currents and discharges such as those found in the aurora, the Sun,
and in space said the discovery was totally unexpected. 'I attended a
seminar on Celestial Catastrophes last year on the urging of
colleagues. I really had no idea of what they were talking about other
than it was electrical and dealt with space plasma.' Plasmas are
collections of negatively charged electrons, positively charged ions,
and neutral particle in the laboratory or in space. The name 'plasma'
was borrowed from blood-plasma by Nobel Laureate Irving Langmuir in
1923 because the electrons and ions behaved as if they were alive in
his laboratory experiments. The electrons and ions flowing down the
Earth's magnetic fields near its poles is what produces the colorful
and dynamic curtains of light that are the aurora.

After the seminar, the organizer e-mailed him some pictures. 'It was
unreal,' recounts Peratt. The pictures were those of an obscure
instability in a plasma discharge. But the pictures were more
pencil-like than photographic. It was hard to believe that someone
outside the space-plasma community had knowledge of these. When I
inquired further as to their source, I was told they were carved on
rock.' According to Peratt 'I immediately wanted to know where these
rocks were stored. It was at that point that I found out that they
were called petroglyphs and existed all over the world.' Peratt's
weekend duties were greatly altered. He and interested volunteers
spent some eight months recording petroglyphs throughout the
Southwest. Ultimately, they surveyed fields containing some 200,000
petroglyphs. Other data from around the globe were then added to the
data bank.

According to Peratt 'It was really quite simple. Ancient people had
recorded all the phases of a plasma discharge, a lightning stroke that
must have been unprecedented in intensity and duration.' 'But that
meant that through computer processing we might make a movie of the
phenomena with bits and pieces of petroglyphs from around the world in
spite of the fact that they were often drawn as crude looking
figures'. It was at this point that Peratt acknowledges he greatly
underestimated the information carried on the rocks. Many parts of the
hastily created movie 'stood still' in spite of the fact that the
individual frames were photos taken a thousand miles apart That is,
they were exactly the same image or images having differences related
to where on Earth the observer stood or cultural perceptions.

The first movie showed a background precession of different shades of
brown, dependent on whether the picture was recorded in New Mexico,
Utah, Arizona, Colorado, California, or Australia or South Africa. But
then some green went by. These named out to be structures a thousand
times the size of the petroglyphs: the giant stone circles of northern
Europe. Among these was Stonehenge, one of the world's most famous
prehistoric monuments. 'The overlay shows the preciseness and
sky-surveying skills of peoples five-thousand miles apart', remarked
Peratt. But he emphasizes that the overlay shown is the first
detected, not the best.

'Stonehenge has an inner horseshoe-shaped structure of giant
trilithons, stones weighing some forty tons.' While this particular
petroglyph has captured the electrical filaments between the 'dots'
(actually cross sections of pinched electrical currents that shine
like a car's headlights), it does not show the horseshoe as do
countless other petroglyphs. From experimental data, the horseshoe is
a known feature of the intense electrical current into the structure.
But the horseshoe construction must have dismayed the builders; it is
the fastest changing part of the phenomenon, whose constant
reorientation would have been noticed within several decades of
construction, 'In any event, Stonehenge appears to be a giant
petroglyph, a result of a world-wide flurry of activity by humankind
responding to an immense electrical discharge some four millennia ago'
cites Peratt.

Petroglyph from the Columbia River Gorge overlayed with with
Stonehenge
_Note: Black is the petroglyph, white is Stonehenge_

_Figure 1 (above):_ An overlay, of a petroglyph from the Columbia
River Gorge in the state of Washington with Stonehenge near Salisbury
England. The diameter of the petroglyph is twelve inches while the
outer diameter of Stonehenge is 330 feet. The innermost petroglyph
ring aligns with the horseshoe that opens toward the incoming current
(upper right). The next ring overlays Stonehenge's 'outer bluestone
circle' while the third ring is aligned with the 'outer sarsen circle'
of stones. As in experimental data, the third or outer ring is an
electrical terminus for filamentary currents that start at
Stonehenge's innermost 'Z' holes and stretch out towards the second
ring of 'Y' holes. The outermost ring of holes, the fifty-six 'Aubrey'
holes, so named after the pioneering seventeenth century archaeologist
John Aubrey. The dim outer markings are mounds and ditches that
replicate the outer sheath of a sheet current. The gray elongated
object to the upper right is the 'slaughter stone' while the light
green patches are places where stones once stood. While the inner
(white) hole markings match those on the petroglyph, the outer holes
match precisely only at the top. At the bottom the ratio of Stonehenge
to petroglyph holes are two to one. This is a feature of two electric
currents in close proximity. They attract and spiral together to
become one elongated object (The petroglyph has accurately captured
the offset of some of the 'dots' due to this spiraling). Because of
orientation of the bottom holes, the petroglyph shown is surmised to
have been recorded several decades after the original Stonehenge plan.
Other petroglyphs fit precisely the outer holes indicating that they
were contemporary with Stonehenge's sky recording.

(c) 2001 Anthony L. Peratt.

_Further resources_

__Web sites

* [4]The Society for Interdisciplinary Studies
* Anthony L. Peratt's: [5]The Plasma Universe
* Wal Thornhill's: [6]Electric Universe
* Don Scott's: [7]Electric/Plasma Universe & [8]What Kind of Sky Did
the Ancients See?
* [9]Science Frontiers Online (then search for 'petroglyphs' or
'rock art')
* [10]Catastrophism! Man, Myth and Mayhem in Ancient History and the
Sciences

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