First Civilization Part 2 Chapter 16

 

 

Starting with this period artistic work began to flourish, with Venus figurines, so you know what was on their minds.

 

A Venus Carving

Cave painting, carvings and engravings on bone or ivory (such as the  Running Reindeer), petroglyphs and exotic raw materials found far from their sources, suggests emergent trading links.

 

Bull cave drawing from Anatolia

More complex social groupings emerged, supported by more varied and reliable food sources and specialized tool types. This probably contributed to increasing group identification or ethnicity. These group identities produced distinctive symbols and rituals which are an important part of  human behavior.    The Mesolithic Period is the term used to refer to a different time span in different parts of Eurasia. It was first used to refer to post-Holocene or pre-agricultural material in north-west Europe about 10,000 to 5000 BC. It is also applied to material from the Levant (about 20,000 to 9500 BC); in Japan the Jomon period (about 14,000 to 400 BC) is also called Mesolithic and it is also applied to some cultures from the Indian sub-continent.

 

Route Taken by Clone led Tribe

By 20,000 to 18,000 BC the climate and environment had changed, starting a period of transition. The Levant became more arid and the forest vegetation retreated, to be replaced by steppe. The cool and dry period ended at the beginning of Mesolithic 1. The hunter-gatherers of the Aurignacian would have had to modify their way of living and their pattern of settlement to adapt to the changing conditions.  Mesolithic 1 (Kebara culture; 20,000–18,000 BC to 12,150 BC) followed the Aurignacian or Levantine Upper Paleolithic throughout the Levant. By the end of the Aurignacian, gradual changes took place in stone industries. Small stone tools called Microliths and retouched bladelets can be found for the first time. The microliths of this culture period differ greatly from the Aurignacian artifacts.

 

Microliths

The Zarzian culture was an archaeological culture of late Paleolithic or Mesolithic in Iraq, Iran, and Central Asia . The period this culture existed is estimated from about 18,000-8,000 years BC. Which may be the oldest culture near the area of Carahunge.  It existed close by in the correct time period and predates the Shulaveri-Shom culture.  So the Zarzian culture is what we are looking for.  It most likely extended into the area now known as the country of Armenia. Probably in the southern half.  The culture was named and recognized for the cave of Zarzi in Iraqi Kurdistan.  Here was found plenty of microliths (up to 20% finds). Their forms are short and asymmetric trapezoids, and triangles with hollows.  So the tribe of humans lead by the Ancient Astronaut clones belonged most probably to the Zarzian culture.   Regardless of type, microliths were used to form the points of hunting weapons such as spears and (in later periods) arrows and other artifacts and are found throughout Europe and Asia.

 

Inside the The Cave of Zarzi

The cave of Zarzi in Iraq was used for over  60,000 years.  It was first occupied by Neanderthals until  22000 BP when they became extinct.  The Zarzin culture appropriated it sometime after 18000BP  "The Zarzian of the Zagros region of Iran is contemporary with the Natufian but different from it. The only dates for the entire Zarzian come from Palegawra Cave, and date to 17,300-17,000BP, but it is clear that it is broadly contemporary with the Levantine Kebaran, with which it shares features.

 

Extent of Zarzian influence ( the green area near name, but probably extended farther north)

There are only a few Zarzian sites remaining today and the area appears to have been quite sparsely populated during the Mesolithic. Faunal remains from the Zarzian indicate that the temporary form of structures indicate a hunter-gatherer subsistence strategy, focused on onager, red deer and caprines. Better known sites include Palegawra Cave, Shanidar B2 and Zarzi.  The Zarzian culture is found associated with remains of the domesticated dog and with the introduction of the bow and arrow.

 

The grey wolf is the ancestor of the domesticated dog

This culture seems to have extended north into the Kobistan region and into Eastern Iran as a forerunner of the Hissar and related cultures. This most probably was  the culture responsible for the construction of Carahunge.  The Ancient Astronaut clones were given a name by the humans who lived with them, they were called the Naflin which described their size and abilities.

 

Carahunge under a full moon

Eventually the tribe went into an area known to them by the name Carahunge, which today is known as the Armenian Stonehenge.  It is believed to be much older than Stonehenge in England.  They were joined by other tribes from the surrounding areas.  There was a large circle of stones where the people gathered at a certain time of year to worship the Fearless One the Sun god.

 

End of Part 2

First Civilization Part 2 Chapter 15

 

 

There was a history of clone desertion from the Ancient Astronauts from the earliest times.  Many of them believed that they had seeded Earth with humans of their kind unintentionally. That is what had been told to the group of leaders in this present colony from their predecessors before hand.  They had been warned to take tight control of them or they could lose them all.
Meanwhile the Ancient Astronauts became concerned that the clones that had deserted would return and inflict the same attitudes on the clones who had stayed.  So the Supreme Leader and Council banished them from the area at the point of death and they put a guard out to enforce it so that all would know that if they left they could not return.

 

Ancient Astronauts on guard duty

Now the clones who had deserted were armed and had some equipment.  But they had received a prime directive at their creation not to kill their creators.  So a large group of them headed to the southeast and another large group headed west. These clones were very intelligent and were endowed with their individual creator's area of proficiency. But they could still not have children with each other. 

 

They made their way southeast of Ararat

The group heading southeast were the first to make contact with humans.  The humans were afraid of them because of their height -all were of a massive build standing nearly 7 feet.  But they managed to make friends with them.  They joined the humans at their campsite and taught them how to build better structures for themselves.  But one night around the campfire becoming quite familiar with the human females and males they decided to have intercourse with them for they had begun to find them attractive.  None of them thought it would work.  But it did.  In nine months more children were born to the tribe from these unions.

 

Small Prehistoric human campsite

The humans  considered the Ancient Astronaut clones the sons of the gods.  They were thought of as, the heroes and great leaders who gained great renown for few humans stood little chance in battle against them.  Some of them were considered wise because of the things they taught the humans.  They showed the humans how to live better, how to hunt better, and they taught them things about the heavens that they could barely imagine. The clones became the leaders and shamans of the tribe they belonged to. 

 

A Neolithic Shaman

The natives worshipped a Sun god and a whole host of other deities A solar deity (also sun god/goddess) is a sky deity who represents the Sun, or an aspect of it, usually by its perceived power and strength. Solar deities and sun worship can be found throughout most of recorded history in various forms in almost every ancient culture.

 

The Tribe's Sun-god symbol found on a petroglyph rock

But one day south of them there was an overflow from one of the rivers and they all had to head for higher ground.   The clones made prayers to God  which the natives thought was to the sun god, they made supplication for safe travel in the direction the sun rises. After having a dream one of the shaman tell the tribe about a battle they will win.  To the people of the tribe when the see them encounter a pride of lions and destroy them with their weapons they understand that it was done with the sun god's favor.  The shaman teach the people that God is also associated with justice.  The tribe makes weapons for them, an axe, and a long spear weighing 8 pounds and a bow as well.

 

Armed Ancient Astronaut clone with spear

The Ark narrative has been extensively studied by adherents of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, as well as other Abrahamic and non-Abrahamic faiths. Such studies have ranged from hypothetical solutions to practical problems (such as the issues of waste disposal and lighting the ark's interior), to theological and metaphoric interpretations (with the ark being seen as the spiritual precursor in offering salvation to mankind). Although the account of the ark was traditionally accepted as historical, by the 19th century the growing impact of scientific investigation and biblical interpretation had led many people to abandon a literal view in favor of a more metaphoric understanding. Though there have been many alleged sightings of Noah's Ark over the years,  no concrete physical evidence of the ark has been found. Biblical literalists continue to explore the mountains of Ararat in present-day Turkey and Armenia, where the Bible says the ark came to rest, in search of archaeological remnants of the vessel.

 

 

Location were they believe the remains of the Ark are located on Mount Ararat (the Ararat anomaly)

Early Christian artists depicted Noah standing in a small box on the waves, symbolizing God’s saving power in its turbulent early years.  The Ark was the sign of God's saving power to his people.

 

Cutaway view of Noah’s Ark

The ark is a symbolic message it is not a physical object.  The Baha'i scripture Kitáb-i-Íqán endorses the Islamic belief that Noah had a large number of companions on the ark, either 40 or 72, as well as his family.  The latter would have been true in the case of the Ancient Astronauts and their clones even though in all probability these numbers for this period are  to be considered as inaccurate.  The actual number would be unknown.  I have always believed that when large numbers are used in early historical Biblical texts the author really means: "They lived a long and prosperous life." This seems to be supported by the traditions of the people from this part of the world.
The development of scientific geology had a profound impact on attitudes towards the biblical Flood and Ark story. Without the support of the Biblical chronology, which placed the Creation and the Flood in a history which stretched back no more than a few thousand years, the historicity of the Ark itself was undermined. In 1823, William Buckland interpreted geological phenomena as Reliquiae Diluvianae: relics of the flood which "attested the action of a universal deluge". His views were supported by other English clergymen and naturalists at the time, including the influential Adam Sedgwick, but by 1830 Sedgwick considered that the evidence only showed local floods. The deposits were subsequently explained by Louis Agassiz as the results of glaciation  The real time period about 20,000 BP would have been the time when the melting of snow and glaciers of the last major ice age would have been causing ocean water levels to go up around the world.  That is as far as we can go with that issue.  But it did not cause a world wide flood, but only in areas that were low enough to be flooded.  It is suggested that the biblical authors saw the ark serving  one purpose – the preservation of humankind for God's plan of redemption.

First Civilization Part 2 Chapter 14

 

Before 2.5 million  years ago, it is uncertain what the lineage of man was before this period -if there was any relation to monkeys at all.    A huge gap-the missing links-not one but more than one according to one schematic. Like most scientific theories the  Theory  of evolution is an educated guess and some educated guesses can be wrong if not in part then totally. You cannot compare a wild animal to a human they are two different types of creatures. Even if you have found a few large extinct gorilla bones in Africa some scientist named "Lucy."
The humans on Earth, such as Homo erectus, had been using simple tools for many millennia, but as time progressed, tools became far more refined and complex. At some point, humans began using fire for heat and for cooking. They also developed language in the Paleolithic period and a conceptual repertoire that included systematic burial of the dead and adornment of the living. During this period, all humans lived as hunter-gatherers, and were generally nomadic.

 

Archaic Homo Erectus

Homo Erectus appears by about 1.8 million years ago, via the transitional variety Homo ergaster.  The second part, "ergaster", is derived from the Ancient Greek ἐργαστήρ "workman", in reference to the comparatively advanced lithic technology developed by the species, introducing the Acheulean industry/culture.

 

Acheulean Tools

Their distinctive oval and pear-shaped hand axes have been found over a wide area and some examples attained a very high level of sophistication suggesting that the roots of human art, economy and social organization arose as a result of their development.
Homo erectus lived throughout Eurasia. Stone tools in Malaysia have been dated to be 1.83 million years old. The Peking Man fossil, discovered in 1929, is roughly 700,000 years old this was located in the area of southwest Asia.  Homo erectus moved from scavenging to hunting, developing the hunting-gathering lifestyle that would remain dominant throughout the Paleolithic into the Mesolithic. The unlocking of the new niche of hunting-gathering subsistence drove a number of further changes, behavioral and physiological, leading to the appearance of Homo heidelbergensis by some 600,000 years ago.

 

Homo Heidelbergensis

The hand-axe tradition originates after this period. The intermediate may have been Homo heidelbergensis, held responsible for the manufacture of improved Acheulean tool types, after 600,000 years BP. Flakes and axes coexisted in Europe, sometimes at the same site. The axe tradition, however, spread to a different range in the east. It appears in Arabia and India, but it does not appear in southeast Asia.

 

Hand Axes

The carrier species in Europe undoubtedly was Homo erectus. This type of human is more clearly linked to the flake tradition, which spread across southern Europe through the Balkans to appear relatively densely in southeast Asia. Many Mousterian finds from the Middle Paleolithic have been knapped using a Levallois technique, suggesting that Neanderthals evolved from Homo erectus.

 

Homo Sapiens

Also in Europe appeared a type of human intermediate between Homo erectus and Homo sapiens, sometimes summarized under "archaic Homo sapiens, typified by such fossils as those found at various locations in Europe.
From about 300,000 years ago, technology, social structures and behavior appear to grow more complex, with prepared-core technique lithic, and the earliest instances of burial and hunting-gathering subsistence.

 

Human Evolution Chart

Anything before Homo Ergaster is doubtful.  Modern humans are believed to have evolved from archaic Homo sapiens, who in turn evolved from Homo erectus. Varieties of archaic Homo sapiens (also "Archaics" for short) are included under the binomial name "Homo sapiens" because their brain size is very similar to that of modern humans. Archaic Homo sapiens had a brain size averaging 1200 to 1400 cubic centimeters, which overlaps with the range of modern humans. Archaics are distinguished from anatomically modern humans by having a thick skull, prominent brow ridges and the lack of a prominent chin.  Homo sapiens first appears about 200,000 years ago.
About 50,000 years ago, there was a marked increase in the diversity of artifacts. The first evidence of human fishing is also noted, from artifacts in places such as Blombos cave in South Africa. Firstly among the artifacts that archeologists found they could differentiate and classify those of less than 50,000 years into many different categories, such as projectile points, engraving tools, knife blades, and drilling and piercing tools. These new stone-tool types have been described as being distinctly differentiated from each other, as if each tool had a specific purpose.

 

A Paleolithic band of hunters

During the Paleolithic, humans grouped together in small societies such as bands, and subsisted by gathering plants and hunting or scavenging wild animals. The Paleolithic is characterized by the use of knapped stone tools, although at the time humans also used wood and bone tools. Other organic commodities were adapted for use as tools, including leather and vegetable fibers; however, due to their nature, these have not been preserved to any great degree.

 

Bone Tools

The Paleolithic (or Paleolithic) Age, Era or Period, is a prehistoric era distinguished by the development of the most primitive stone tools discovered, and covers roughly 99% of human technological prehistory. It extends from the earliest known use of stone tools, 3.6 million years ago, to the end of the Pleistocene around 10,000 BP. The Paleolithic era is followed by the Mesolithic. The date of the Paleolithic—Mesolithic boundary may vary by locality as much as several thousand years.
The Upper Paleolithic or Late Stone age is the third and last subdivision of the Paleolithic or Old Stone Age as it is understood in Europe, Africa and Asia. Very broadly it dates to between 40,000 and 10,000 years ago, right before the advent of agriculture. 
Concepts of civilization and culture are not always considered interchangeable. For example, a small nomadic tribe may be judged not to have a civilization, but it would surely be judged to have a culture (defined by its "the arts, customs, habits... beliefs, values, behavior and  material habits that constitute a people's way of life").
This period has the earliest remains of organized settlements in the form of campsites, some with storage pits. These were often located in narrow valley bottoms, possibly to make hunting of passing herds of animals easier. Some sites may have been occupied year round, though more generally, they seem to have been used seasonally; peoples moved between them to exploit different food sources at different times of the year. Hunting was important, and deer, and wild boar may well have been the species of  greatest importance to them.

 

An Auroch under attack by wolves

Auroch calves were especially vulnerable to wolves, while healthy adult aurochs probably did not have to fear these predators. In prehistoric Europe, North Africa and Asia, big cats like lions or tigers and hyenas were additional predators which likely preyed on aurochs ( now extinct).

First Civilization Part 2 Chapter 13

 

 

The migration from Mars to Earth did not happen all at once but gradually over a long period of time.  This story is about some of the last of the migrants who came to Earth. The story concerns the Ancient Astronauts who landed in Eurasia.  Their starship landed in an outpost area previously explored so there was equipment on the ground where they landed.

 

The Supreme Leader wanted to move to a less conspicuous location.  So they sent the clones down to dismantle the outpost and brought the equipment to a new location.  They landed in the area of Mount Ararat.  Mount Ararat  is a snow-capped, dormant volcanic cone in Turkey. It has two peaks: Greater Ararat (the tallest peak in Turkey, and the entire Armenian plateau with an elevation of 5,137 m/16,854 ft) and Lesser Ararat (with an elevation of 3,896 m/12,782 ft).

 

The Peaks of Mount Ararat

The Ararat massif is about 40 km (25 mi) in diameter. They landed according to ancient tradition near Mount Masis, the highest peak in the Armenian Highland, which is therefore also called Mount Ararat.  Mount Ararat is located in the Eastern Anatolia Region of Turkey near the border with Iran, Armenia and Nakhchivan exclave of Azerbaijan, between the Aras and Murat Rivers. Its summit is located some 16 km (10 mi) west of the Iran and 32 km (20 mi) south of the Armenian border. The Ararat plain runs along its northwest to western side:

 

The clones had many of their creator's genetic traits which were not discrete features but were instead traits that controlled height and skin color. These complex traits were products of many genes. The influence of these genes was mediated, to varying degrees, by the environment they had  to adapt to.. The degree to which an organism's genes contribute to a complex trait is called heritability.  So the clones looked like the Ancient Astronauts themselves outwardly.  Each member of the crew was required to donate DNA for the clone reproduction.  Their clones were their offspring since they could not reproduce among themselves.  The full set of hereditary material in humans (usually the combined DNA sequences of all chromosomes) is called the genome.  It was like that with the Ancient Astronauts. They like other species had so called sex chromosomes, which are special in that they determine the sex of the individual.  

 

One the Ancient Astronaut Clones

Asexual reproduction is  used by in multicellular organisms including  clones, producing offspring that inherit their genome from a single parent. Offspring that are genetically identical to their parents are called clones and this was how the Ancient Astronauts made them.  But they did not give them the same amount of knowledge or intelligence they possessed only a high percentage of it.  They were capable of learning and acquiring new knowledge.  They had all the emotional traits of their creators.
At this time the area around Mount Ararat was covered in lush forests and not a bare hilly area like today.  They wanted to find a location to hide their spaceship and build a landing pad for it there.

 

Building a landing pad on an unknown alien world can be deadly work

The Ancient Astronauts with anti-gravity beams raised up the spacecraft allowing the clones to build a pad on the ground where the ship could lay so that it fit in with the area they were located. First they had to clear the area of growth around the pad while concealing it.  For the pad they constructed it from natural materials found in the area, earth, rocks, and materials from the original outpost.

 

The remains of the landing pad today

 

The clones also had emotions just like their creators.  Their desire for companionship was one of their strongest drives and that is what was to cause them trouble.  They seeing their masters with female and male partners, they  wanted the same  form of  romantic relationship not knowing they had the same reproductive problems as their creators. They had never been told.  Their creators thought it would not be an issue.  But some of the clones wandered off and returned. They tried sexual intercourse with each other.  They were warned that they were putting everyone's life in danger by wandering off.  Then they were told they were not made to have children.  Their job was to serve their creators.  But when head counts were taken daily some of the clones came up missing at each count.  The Supreme leader at a council meeting said," Now they think they know more than us."  But the Supreme leader added at the council meeting said," We should eliminate those who have been disobedient and treat those who have obeyed with gratitude and happiness."  But no one agreed on the method of elimination so nothing was done.

First Civilization Part 2 Chapter 12

 

Sometime after 3 mya the Ancient Astronauts decided it was safe  to establish colonies on Earth.  Since they had been scouting the planet for some time they could easily pick out the locations where a colony could get its' start.    Their leadership which consisted of a council of twelve and a supreme leader was same political structure that was expected to rule each colony. There were also some other considerations to be made in the division of labor that would be needed to build these new colonies.  It was suggested that their clones be used to build the colonies so they came to an agreement on that.  But there was still more problems in the way of the Ancient Astronauts migrating to Earth: Mars has less than half the gravity of Earth.  The atmosphere might be safe to breath but it would be different and could affect the colonists health and it was almost certain some would get sick.  So anyone going outside their spacecraft upon landing would be required to where a space suit until acclimation was achieved.  In the meantime they could create clones on Mars through genetic engineering and their clones would could go outside and do the work.  Their clones in fact were their children.  They were unable to reproduce in what was normal for their race due to a past we now seem to be heading towards.

 

A View of the Earth and the Moon as seen by the Ancient Astronauts approaching from Mars

 

When the mothership above the planet Mars was fully loaded with the Ancient Astronaut migrants with their belongings they left that planet and headed to Earth. We on Earth have no idea what it would be like to migrate from one planet to another.  The closest analogy would be explorers from Europe discovering the New World on the other side of the Atlantic.  The differences is that it would be more technological and crossing would take place in space.  The mother ship would carry the spacecraft that would bring the new settlers down to the planet and so most of them might be in these spacecraft until launched over their destination. There would also be dangers during the transit- in space things could happen. The mothership's main engine, based on Ancient Astronaut technology; was capable of converting the vacuum of space into tachyon energy as well as having normal rockets This  spaceship would "ride" the wave of tachyons and travel faster than light.  However, this feature had to be activated with perfect timing (by a  navigator), at a point when space at the origin and destination are in the correct phase.

 

The Ancient Astronaut Mothership approaching Earth

The plan in the beginning was to take three motherships and launch colony spacecraft with  the migrants to different locations on the planet Earth.  Each group of them boarded a colony spacecraft which took them to their destinations on the planet below.   This migration did not take place all at once but over a long period of time.  Many were not ready to leave their homes at this time,  because the conditions on Mars only gradually got worse over a long period of time.

First Civilization Part 2 Chapter 11

 

 

How long the Ancient Astronauts lived on Mars before things began to take a change for the worse is not known. But it could have be around 4 mya ago  They did not see it coming at first when the first signs began to appear.  There were already exploratory missions being sent to Earth as that planet had moved more into the habitable zone of the solar system while Mars seemed to be moving out of it.  So they had to look after themselves in order  to survive.  They may have taken to the first steps to explore Earth around 3 mya ago and possibly making small outposts there.
Straddling the Northern Ocean boundary in Mars’ western hemisphere is a massive volcano-tectonic province known as the Tharsis region or the Tharsis bulge. This immense, elevated structure is thousands of kilometers in diameter and covers up to 25% of the planet’s surface.  Averaging 7–10 km above the Martian “sea” level, Tharsis contains the highest elevations on the planet and the largest known volcanoes in the Solar System. Three enormous volcanoes, Ascaeus Mons, Pavonis Mons., and Arsia Mons (collectively known as the Tharsis Montes), situated and aligned NE-SW along the crest of the bulge. They had been active for some time. The vast Alba Mons(formerly Alba Patera) occupies the northern part of the region. The huge shield volcano Olympus Mons  lies off the main bulge, at the western edge of the province. It was located in the Northern Ocean and had been active too- probably longer than all the others.

 

Olympus Mons was off the coast surrounded by the Northern Ocean

An area near these volcanoes was responsible for rift valleys and grabens- a portion of the Martian crust bounded on two sides by faults.  This was an area where rock was being pulled apart by powerful tectonic forces.   The tectonic plates on Mars were completely different than that of Earth and Mars is only about 1/3 the size of Earth.  So the Ancient Astronauts were well aware of the area and had no colonies near it for those reasons, but they kept they eyes on as it would be a good area for another super-volcano to develop.

 

The Tharsis Bulge area from the ground

The first sign of trouble came at the Martian Equator the tectonic plates collided to where rocks were being pulled apart making an immense valley. Dust was thrown into the atmosphere and then came the Mars-quakes, up to 9.0 or more and the shaking could be felt for kilometers.  Through tectonic plate action  an immense system of deep inter-connected canyons and troughs began to form into what is now known as Mars' greatest riff valley the Valles Marineris.

 

Rift Valley formation always leads to Mars-quakes (or Earth- quakes on Earth)

A huge split in the surface of the planet began to open up creating canyons in some places 300 km wide and 10 km deep  These deep canyons opened up ground for nearly 4000 km, nearly a quarter of the planet's surface and some Ancient Astronauts were misplaced from their communities by it and some may had lost their lives as well.

 

The length of the Valles Marineris is about same distance as it is from NYC to LA

 

Based on orbital observations and the examination of the Martian meteorite collection, the surface of Mars appears to be composed primarily of basalt. Some evidence suggests that a portion of the Martian surface is more silica-rich than typical basalt, and may be similar to andesitic rocks (a dark-colored volcanic rock composed essentially of plagioclase feldspar and one or more mafic minerals,such as hornblende or biotite) on Earth; these observations may also be explained by silica glass(sand). Much of the surface on Mars is deeply covered by finely grained iron(III) oxide dust today.  This was the next sign of impending doom- the spread of the Iron dust in the atmosphere.

 

Current models of the planet's interior imply a core region about 1,480 km in radius, consisting primarily of iron with about 14–17% sulfur. This iron sulfide core was completely  fluid then, and had twice the concentration of the lighter elements than exist at Earth's core. The core was surrounded by a silicate mantle that formed many of the tectonic and volcanic features on the planet, but then was very active. The average thickness of the planet's crust is about 50 km, with a maximum thickness of 125 km. Earth's crust, averaging 40 km, is only one third as thick as Mars’ crust, relative to the sizes of the two planets.

 

Mars Current Atmospheric Situation (yellow indicates what is left of the magnetosphere)

Although Mars has no evidence of a current structured global magnetic field,  observations show that parts of the planet's crust have been magnetized, and that alternating polarity reversals of its dipole field have occurred in the past. This paleomagnetism of magnetically susceptible minerals has properties that are very similar to the alternating bands found on the ocean floors of Earth.   One theory, published in 1999 and re-examined in October 2005 (with the help of the Mars Global Surveyor), is that these bands demonstrate plate tectonics  on Mars four billion years ago, before the planetary dynamo slowed down to a crawl and caused the planet's magnetic field to slowly fade away.

 

The Geology of Mars Today

But at the time when the Ancient Astronauts were living on the planet the core was completely fluid. There were plate tectonics and the planetary dynamo was beginning to wane but still  providing the planet with a magnetic field that protected the atmosphere from the stellar wind and radiation from space.  But as the dynamo began to slow down and the magnetic field of the planet began to weaken. The Ancient Astronauts noticed this almost immediately.  Their scientists reported that the plates were slowing down but there was still volcano activity in the Tharsis region.   Now these volcanoes seemed to be bringing the liquid core of the planet to the planet's surface. Erupting and blowing it's iron core into the atmosphere. This is  one of the reasons you see so much granular iron oxide on the planet's surface today.  It would only be a matter of time before the magnetic field faded and the atmosphere would disappear whisked out into space by the stellar wind.

 

History of water on Mars

The Ancient Astronauts had been surveying the Earth for some time as earlier indicated, and had come to the conclusion the planet may be ready for colonization.  Time to check it again and see if it  would now be the right place to migrate to.  So that is what they did.

First Civilization Part 2 Chapter 10

 

It took the Ancient Astronauts over one hundred years to send spacecraft powered by warp drive to Mars with the intention of migration. They landed at various locations around the planet.  Besides Cydonia the Blocks of Aram may also been a place for Ancient Astronauts habitation and there is more besides these two places

 

Cydonia Face (top right) and Pyramid city (lower left)

Cydonia is a region on the planet Mars, that has attracted both scientific and popular interest for some time the name originally referred to the albedo feature (a distinctively colored area) that was visible from earthbound telescopes. The area borders the plains of Acidalia Planitia and the Arabia Terra highlands.

Early Plant Life on Mars

 

By about 5 Ga. something similar to modern oxygenic photosynthesis had probably developed on Mars, which made the sun’s energy available not only to autotrophs -plants, algae and certain bacteria but also to the heterotrophs-animals, fungi and protozoa that consumed them.  This type of photosynthesis, which became by far the most common, used the abundant carbon dioxide and water as raw materials and, with the energy of sunlight, produced energy-rich organic molecules (carbohydrates).  Moreover, oxygen was released as a waste product of the photosynthesis. At first, it became bound up with limestone, iron, and other minerals. There is substantial proof of iron-oxide rich layers in the geological strata of Mars that correspond with this period- this also helped gave the planet its color.

The ALH84001 meteorite may be the proof for life on Mars we are looking for:  the meteorite weighs 1.93 kilograms (4.3 lb.). The sample was ejected from Mars about 17 million years ago and spent 11,000 years in or on the Antarctic ice sheets. Composition analysis by NASA revealed a kind of magnetite that on Earth is only found in association with certain microorganisms. Then, in August 2002, another NASA team led by Thomas Keptra published a study indicating that 25% of the magnetite in ALH 84001 occurs as small, uniform-sized crystals that, on Earth, is associated only with biologic activity, and that the remainder of the material appears to be normal inorganic magnetite.

 

Bacteria on Earth that is similar to that found in the meteorite ALH84001

The extraction technique did not permit determination as to whether the possibly biological magnetite was organized into chains as would be expected. The meteorite displays indication of relatively low temperature secondary mineralization by water and show evidence of pre-terrestrial aqueous alteration. Evidence of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons has been identified with the levels increasing away from the surface. Some structures resembling the mineralized casts of terrestrial bacteria and their appendages (fibrils) (could also be freeze-dried worms) or by-products (extra-cellular polymeric substances) occur in the rims of carbonate globules and pre-terrestrial aqueous alteration regions. The size and shape of the objects is consistent with Earthly  fossilized bacteria. In November 2009, NASA scientists said that a recent, more detailed analysis showed that the meteorite "contains strong evidence that life may have existed on ancient Mars.

 

Atlas of Mars

Cydonia lies in the planet’s northern hemisphere in a transitional zone between the heavily cratered regions to the South, and relatively smooth plains to the North. Some planetologists believe that the northern plains was once part of the Northern Ocean, and that Cydonia may have been a coastal zone.  More than likely plant and animal life began to exist on the planet when that occurred. The Martian city in Cydonia was very large and on the coast.  It had some very large structures and a large number of  Ancient Astronauts could have lived there:

 

The City of Cydonia and Region

Many want to believe that just because Ancient Astronauts built pyramids on Mars they would come to Earth and show men how to construct them.

Close up of a Martian Pyramid

I disagree with this theory.  The structures that were built on Mars would have been built of different materials and for different purposes.

There is also the face on Mars not far from the City of Cydonia some think it was put there because the Sphinx was built near the pyramids in Egypt.  The problem is no one is sure who built the Sphinx and what its real purpose was although theories abound.  On Earth, it is a mythical creature with a lion’s body and a human head.  The face on Mars looks nothing like that. 

My Drawing of the City of Cydonia

(1) Instead of a pyramid there is a dome on the west side of the city:

 

 

(2) Then they built a pyramid next to it as you go into the city:

(3) After that you enter the city you enter the plaza:

(4) Then you come to the City center:

(5) After that the East Pyramid:

 

(6) After that you would come to a plaza overlooking the Northern Ocean:

Then to the west  of the East Pyramid you would come to the Ancient Astronaut Space Base: