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Graham Hancock – FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

Of course, Runcorn may be wrong; perhaps field reversals can occur in
the absence of any other upheavals.
But he may also be right.
According to reports published in Nature and New Scientist, the last
geomagnetic reversal was completed just 12,400 years ago—during the
eleventh millennium BC.
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This is of course the very millennium in which the ancient Tiahuanacan
civilization in the Andes seems to have been destroyed. The same
millennium is signalled by the alignments and design of the great
astronomical monuments on the Giza plateau, and by the erosion
patterns on the Sphinx. And it was in the eleventh millennium BC that
Egypt’s ‘precocious agricultural experiment’ suddenly failed. Likewise it
was in the eleventh millennium BC that huge numbers of large mammal
species all around the world vanished into extinction. The list could
continue: abrupt rises in sea level, hurricane-force winds, electrical
storms, volcanic disturbances, and so on.
Scientists expect the next reversal of the earth’s magnetic poles to
occur around AD 2030.
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Is this an intimation of planetary disaster? After 12,500 years of the
pendulum, is the hammer about to strike?

Exhibit 11

Yves Rocard, Professor of the Faculty of Sciences at Paris: ‘Our modern
seismographs are sensitive to the ‘noise’ of limited agitation at every
point in the earth, even in the absence of any seismic wave. One may in
this noise discern a man-made vibration (for example, a train four
kilometers away, or a big city ten kilometers off) and also an atmospheric
effect (from changing pressure of the wind on the soil) and sometimes
one registers also the effects of great storms at a distance. Yet there
remains a continued rolling noise of cracklings in the earth which owes
nothing to any [such] cause ...’
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Exhibit 12

‘The North Pole moved ten feet in the direction of Greenland along the
meridian of 45 degrees west longitude during the period from 1900 to
1960 ... a rate of six centimetres (about two and a half inches) a year.
[Between 1900 and 1968, however,] the pole moved about twenty feet.
[The pole therefore] moved ten feet between 1960 and 1968, at a rate of

42 Nature, volume 234, 27 December 1971, pp. 173-4; New Scientist, 6 January 1972, p.
7.
43 J. M. Harwood and S. C. R. Malin writing in Nature, 12 February 1976.
44 The Path of the Pole, op. cit., Appendix, pp. 325-6.

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