3. A Chronological Conundrum
All this places the
origin of Megalithic measures, and the probable role of an elite in
deriving them, into an entirely different context, and it raises
profound and thorny chronological questions. As I outlined in my
previous book The Cosmic War, if such
an interplanetary war did occur, it most likely occurred ca. 3.2
million years ago.113 But the measuring
activity represented by the Megalithic builders at best represents
an activity that was begun no earlier than 10,000–12,000 years
ago,114 and in the case of
the British Megalithic builders, an activity only a few thousand or
so years older than the Great Pyramid.115 This places the
chronological problem into stark relief, for presumably such
measuring activity would have begun shortly after the conclusion of
the war, yet the evidence suggests it was begun some three million
years later. While there is no easy way
around this problem, it is possible that such activity may have
begun when those surviving elites thought the population of the
Earth had been restored to a sufficient level to warrant their
activities in creating the necessities of civilization.
Nonetheless, the problem remains, and there may be as yet
undiscovered facts that would fill in this lengthy gap more
plausibly.