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

physical changes. Some of these, such as the rise of the Altiplano from<br />

the floor of the ocean, certainly took place in remote geological ages,<br />

before the advent of human civilization. Others are not nearly so<br />

ancient and must have occurred after the construction of<br />

Tiahuanaco. 10 The question, therefore, is this: when was Tiahuanaco<br />

built?<br />

The orthodox historical view is that the ruins cannot possibly be<br />

dated much earlier than AD 500. 11 An alternative chronology also<br />

exists, however, which, although not accepted by the majority of<br />

scholars, seems more in tune with the scale of the geological<br />

upheavals that have occurred in this region. Based on the<br />

mathematical/astronomical calculations of Professor Arthur Posnansky<br />

of the University of La Paz, and of Professor Rolf Muller (who also<br />

challenged the official dating of Machu Picchu), it pushes the main<br />

phase of construction at Tiahuanaco back to 15,000 BC. This<br />

chronology also indicates that the city later suffered immense<br />

destruction in a phenomenal natural catastrophe around the eleventh<br />

millennium BC, and thereafter rapidly became separated from the<br />

lakeshore. 12<br />

We shall be reviewing Posnansky’s and Muller’s findings in Chapter<br />

Eleven, findings which suggest that the great Andean city of Tiahuanaco<br />

flourished during the last Ice Age in the deep, dark, moonless midnight<br />

of prehistory.<br />

10 Earth In Upheaval, p. 76: ‘The conservative view among evolutionists and geologists is<br />

that mountain-making is a slow process, observable in minute changes, and that<br />

because it is a continuous process there never could have been spontaneous upliftings<br />

on a large scale. In the case of Tiahuanaco, however, the change in altitude apparently<br />

occurred after the city was built, and this could not have been the result of a slow<br />

process ...’<br />

11 See, for example, Ian Cameron, Kingdom of the Sun God: A History of the Andes and<br />

Their People, Guild Publishing, London, 1990, pp. 48-9.<br />

12 Tiahuanacu II, p. 91 and I, p. 39.<br />

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