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In the heady days of the 19^th century geology was the darling discipline of science. Used as the foundation for Darwin’s theory of evolution the notion of gradual change showed how over millions of years time could accomplish everything that was needed to explain the earth’s past. The idea was revolutionary and profound. In the 21^st century, however, geology has yet to successfully solve one of its most persistent problems: the ice ages. The prevailing paradigm assumes that the earth’s overall temperature periodically drops to such low levels that ice sheets form in temperate areas.

A 21^st century discovery in Siberia should throw this paradigm into a whole new rethink. Why? Because nine members of the Russian Academy of Science published an article in the world most prestigious journal, Science, demonstrating people where living at 71N (that is a full five degrees or 300 miles within the Arctic Circle) around 30,000 years ago.

The Yana Rhinoceros Horn Site, as we explain in the new edition of When the Sky Fell, completely undermines the notion of an overall drop in the world’s temperature since this site was clearly warmer during the last “ice age” than it is even today. Animals that the people hunted include: mammoths, rhinoceros, Pleistocene bison, horse, reindeer, musk-ox, wolf, polar fox, Pleistocene lion, brown bear, and wolverine.The authors of the report, most of whom are with the Russian Academy of Science, noted that:

…only the reindeer and wolf still inhabit this area.

The implications have not yet been fully appreciated. How could people be hunting temperate adapted animals within the Arctic Circle during an Ice Age? No answer has yet been forthcoming. Like the recent evidence from northern Sweden, the physical evidence seems to outright falsify the notion of overall temperature drops causing ice sheet formations.

A simpler idea, and one that two geophysicists are considering, is the notion that Siberia was not within the Arctic Circle 30,000 years ago when the people of Yana hunted bison, reindeer and horses. But how could this be?  The answer is that the earth’s crust, mantle or axis was shifted and that Siberia wasn’t in the polar zone when New York was. Such is the conclusion that we arrive at in the 2009 edition of When the Sky Fell.

We would like to show the implications for Antarctica from the Yana site. If we take a glass globe off its hinges we can peer through the image of Antarctica to see those lands that are on the exact opposite of the globe.

A Glass Globe with Yana’s position marked by the orange box  in green section of Siberia

If people lived in Siberia 30,000 years ago, as explained by the Russian scientists, then it stands to reason that it was possible for people to live in Western Antarctica at the same time. The Yana site provides climatic evidence for the possibility of people living on Antarctica at a time when Plato said Atlantis flourished.

Yana is a bit that doesn’t fit the prevailing earth science paradigm. Only a scientific revolution in our thinking will solve this mystery. We suggest that Charles Hapgood’s theory of an earth crust displacement (or mantle displacement) is such a revolution.

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Pitulko, V.V. et al, “The Yana RHS Site: Humans in the Arctic Before the Last Glacial Maximum” Science, 303, 2004, 55.

Raymo, Maureen E. & Peter Huybers “Unlocking the Mysteries of the Ice Ages.” Nature 541, (17 January 2008), pages 284-285 (on web)

Woelfi, W and W. Baltensperger “Arctic East Siberia had a lower latitude in the Pleistocene” March 30, 2006 (on web)