Eight Stone Pyramid Civilizations on Five Continents Share Five Diagnostic Features
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Giza (Africa), Angkor (Asia), Maya + Teotihuacan (N America), Caral + Tiwanaku (S America), Gunung Padang (SE Asia), and Meroe (Africa) all share: (1) stone construction on piezoelectric bedrock (limestone, sandstone, or volcanic rock with quartz), (2) water systems integrated with the structure, (3) reports of altered consciousness, (4) unusual social cohesion during active periods, and (5) decline correlated with water system failure. These civilizations span 25,000+ years and five continents with no demonstrated contact between most of them. Earth-mound pyramid cultures (Cahokia, Chinese) share NONE of these features. The probability of eight independent civilizations converging on the same five diagnostic features by chance is vanishingly small. This is convergent evolution of the same technology based on universal physics.
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