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Graham Hancock – <strong>FINGERPRINTS</strong> <strong>OF</strong> <strong>THE</strong> <strong>GODS</strong><br />

Of course, Runcorn may be wrong; perhaps field reversals can occur in<br />

the absence of any other upheavals.<br />

But he may also be right.<br />

According to reports published in Nature and New Scientist, the last<br />

geomagnetic reversal was completed just 12,400 years ago—during the<br />

eleventh millennium BC. 42<br />

This is of course the very millennium in which the ancient Tiahuanacan<br />

civilization in the Andes seems to have been destroyed. The same<br />

millennium is signalled by the alignments and design of the great<br />

astronomical monuments on the Giza plateau, and by the erosion<br />

patterns on the Sphinx. And it was in the eleventh millennium BC that<br />

Egypt’s ‘precocious agricultural experiment’ suddenly failed. Likewise it<br />

was in the eleventh millennium BC that huge numbers of large mammal<br />

species all around the world vanished into extinction. The list could<br />

continue: abrupt rises in sea level, hurricane-force winds, electrical<br />

storms, volcanic disturbances, and so on.<br />

Scientists expect the next reversal of the earth’s magnetic poles to<br />

occur around AD 2030. 43<br />

Is this an intimation of planetary disaster? After 12,500 years of the<br />

pendulum, is the hammer about to strike?<br />

Exhibit 11<br />

Yves Rocard, Professor of the Faculty of Sciences at Paris: ‘Our modern<br />

seismographs are sensitive to the ‘noise’ of limited agitation at every<br />

point in the earth, even in the absence of any seismic wave. One may in<br />

this noise discern a man-made vibration (for example, a train four<br />

kilometers away, or a big city ten kilometers off) and also an atmospheric<br />

effect (from changing pressure of the wind on the soil) and sometimes<br />

one registers also the effects of great storms at a distance. Yet there<br />

remains a continued rolling noise of cracklings in the earth which owes<br />

nothing to any [such] cause ...’ 44<br />

Exhibit 12<br />

‘The North Pole moved ten feet in the direction of Greenland along the<br />

meridian of 45 degrees west longitude during the period from 1900 to<br />

1960 ... a rate of six centimetres (about two and a half inches) a year.<br />

[Between 1900 and 1968, however,] the pole moved about twenty feet.<br />

[The pole therefore] moved ten feet between 1960 and 1968, at a rate of<br />

42<br />

Nature, volume 234, 27 December 1971, pp. 173-4; New Scientist, 6 January 1972, p.<br />

7.<br />

43<br />

J. M. Harwood and S. C. R. Malin writing in Nature, 12 February 1976.<br />

44<br />

The Path of the Pole, op. cit., Appendix, pp. 325-6.<br />

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