We used to believe the official statements of scientists. “If something is written on Wikipedia,” we think, “it means it’s true.” This fact has long been proven, and it cannot be disputed. If we go to the page of the Internet encyclopedia about dinosaurs and read it a little, we will understand that the giant lizards died out about 65 million years ago and could not cross in time with the human ancestors that appeared on Earth, according to the researchers less than 3 million years ago. But there are people who question everything. Thanks to them, there is now a point of view according to which ancient people and dinosaurs not only existed at the same time, but met and closely interacted with each other.
Adherents of an alternative point of view on the life of ancient reptiles will provide you with a lot of evidence that humans and dinosaurs lived at the same time. They will talk about ancient works of art depicting dinosaurs in variousforms and subjects. Or they will read written documents in which, albeit veiled, but very clearly, our ancestors mention animals that are very similar to giant reptiles. Below we will get acquainted with the main evidence of the hypothesis about the life of dinosaurs in human times.
How dinosaurs became extinct
According to scientists, dinosaurs reached their peak on land about 160 million years ago. At this time, large reptiles dominated other animal species. But after more than a hundred million years, there was a global extinction of creatures that inhabited the Earth in those days. Then all non-avian dinosaurs, pterosaurs and many marine reptiles disappeared. Several groups of lizards, mammals and birds have also gone missing. This cataclysm marked the end of the Mesozoic era and the beginning of the Cenozoic. What exactly led to such global changes in the biosphere of the planet? So many questions and so few answers…
There are about 60 versions of the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event. Scientists assumed that various diseases were to blame for the extinction of dinosaurs; discrepancy between the number of males and the number of females; eating plants by caterpillars or the appearance of poisonous plant species; irreversible climate change, etc.
The most famous and plausible version today is the fall of a giant space object to Earth. Not a single endogenous (occurring within the planet) event could change the course of evolution so quickly and strongly. According to the hypothesis of physicist Louis Alvarez, a cosmic body crashed into the Earth, causing a huge amount of dust to rise into the air and cover the Sun. As a result, the plants could not receive daylight and died. The death of plants has led to the destruction of most ecosystems. So the food chain began to die out animals one by one.
If the dinosaurs did not regret the mass extinction, then other animals descended from these reptiles survived. We are talking about birds - it was easier for them to survive the consequences of climate change. First, they ate insects. Secondly, they knew how to fly and could leave the territory where living conditions became unbearable for them. Dinosaurs found it harder to adapt and naturally died out.
Ica Stones
This is the name of the stones with various engraved images found near the Peruvian city of Ica in the 60s of the last century. The plots on the stones tell about the life of the ancient Peruvians. Erotic scenes, episodes about organ transplants, observation of space bodies, hunting scenes, etc. Including on many stones there are images of how a person kills dinosaurs or even rides on them.
The greatest popularity of these stones was brought by Dr. Javier Cabrera, who in the mid-60s began to buy them for nothing from collectors. At the moment, there are more than 55,000 copies of these products. Until now, no one can either prove or disprove their authenticity. Chemical analysis is unable to determine how old the stones are, although some sources claim that a patina (a film formed by the environment) covers the surface.carvings, so the products supposedly have an impressive age. In addition, the main evidence of the antiquity of stones with stories about dinosaurs and people, according to researchers, is that they depict sauropods (four-legged herbivorous dinosaurs) with spikes on their backs. After all, the presence of spikes in this group was discovered only in the 1990s, so the stones cannot be a fake, and our ancestors saw the lizards live, since they conveyed their main anatomical features. Also, Ica products were sometimes found in ancient burials, which also contradicts the official view on the age of the finds.
Acambaro figurines
These are figurines depicting people of different races, extinct mammals and, of course, dinosaurs. In some figurines, standing, sitting together dinosaurs and people are easily guessed, which is especially confusing for scientists - adherents of Darwinism. The products were found by archaeologist Waldemar Julsrud in 1944 near the city of Acambaro, which is located almost in the center of Mexico. At the moment, the number of clay figurines has crossed over 33,000 copies. The first examination of products, which was carried out using thermoluminescence, showed that the age of handicrafts is on average 3000 BC. In 1969, scientists analyzed the figurines in a more modern way and decided that the products were no more than 30 years old from the date of the date.
Supporters of the theory about the authenticity of the figures, as in the case of the Ica stones, confirm their point of view by the presence of a dorsal crest on the figurines of sauropods. They also turnattention to signs that works of art have lain underground for quite a long time and could not have been placed there on purpose by amateur hoaxers. Most of the items depicting dinosaurs and humans are still in the Waldemar Julsrud Museum in Akambaro.
Thousands of pieces
What these two stories have in common with out of place artifacts is that they number in the tens of thousands. Even assuming that Ica stones and Acambaro figurines were made in the twentieth century by people who love to mislead the scientific world, what is the point of hoaxers to work for several years and make thousands of fakes depicting people who lived with dinosaurs, and so that none of them repeated another? To play a trick on scientists, hundreds of images of dinosaurs would be enough. But not a few thousand.
Dragons
A huge amount of information about dragons from the past makes one seriously think that man lived with dinosaurs. It is known that dinosaurs at one time lived on all continents of the globe. No wonder that every culture has many myths and legends about the existence of so-called dragons.
The appearance and qualities of a dragon differ for each nation, but no matter how this mythological creature is portrayed, dragons from different countries and continents have one thing in common: they are very reminiscent of extinct reptiles. It can be assumed that the knowledge about giant lizards, which was transmitted from ancestors, was distorted over the centuries. So dragons appeared in those forms thatwe now know from ancient images and records in documents of those times. Usually in the folk epic, dragons play the role of negative characters and even messengers of Satan himself. Flying monsters opposed man in legends, as dinosaurs fought against people in real life.
Dragons across cultures
- Quetzalcoatl in the culture of the Maya civilization, which existed in 250-900 AD, was depicted as a feathered serpent with a human head.
- Vritra is a demon of ancient Indian mythology. It personifies evil, darkness and gloom. Serpentine, has no arms and legs, emits a hiss.
- Fafnir is a huge snake from Scandinavian legends. He was originally a human, but turned into a dragon. He is usually depicted with wings, powerful paws and a tail with which he blows everything in his path.
- Druk is the main symbol of Bhutan. The dragon is completely oriental in appearance. Depicted on the flag of the state, it also participates in the cultural and political life of the country. Almost all the symbolism of Bhutan is somehow connected with this dragon.
- Python is an ancient Greek dragon. He guarded the entrance to the Delphic soothsayer before Apollo killed him with 100 or 1000 arrows (versions differ). Depicted with a stocky body but a long neck.
- Colchis dragon - also a creature from the mythology of Ancient Greece, guarding the Golden Fleece.
The list is endless. Dragons are known everywhere: in Europe, India, Africa, the Far and Middle East. In South and North America … How else can this phenomenon be explained, if not by the fact that dinosaursand people lived at the same time, closely interacting with each other?
Saul's suicide
It is worth talking about the painting by the artist Pieter Brueghel the Elder "The Suicide of Saul", which is dated 1562. The canvas depicts the death of the first king of Israel, Saul, during the battle with the Philistines and a crowd of Jews fleeing from the victorious Philistine army. In addition to the crowd of people and horses in the background, the keen eye of the viewer saw three animals that very much resemble herbivorous dinosaurs - sauropods. But if we can still believe in stories about dinosaurs and people who lived together several million years ago, then the version that giant reptiles existed in the Middle Ages, and were even used by humans as a horse, looks completely fantastic and implausible.
Brueghel, as a representative of the Northern Renaissance school, had never been to the countries of the Middle East, therefore he wrote the historical events that took place in those parts, only from his own idea of them according to the information that reached him in a distorted form. The action of the painting “The Suicide of Saul” takes place in Palestine (then Judea), where Brueghel the Elder, of course, did not visit. If you go into details, then both armies and the landscape of the Jewish land in the artist's painting are depicted completely unrealistic.
Now to the dinosaurs. In the Middle Ages, books with drawings and descriptions of animals - fantastic or real - were popular. They were called bestiaries. To draw the Middle Eastern fauna, Brueghel, of course, usedthese medieval encyclopedias. And since he could not even think about the existence of dinosaurs, even in Palestine (there were no diplodocus in bestiaries), the version remains that the artist painted more real creatures.
Probably, it's easy to guess that the "dinosaurs" on the canvas turned out to be none other than ordinary camels in the representation of medieval Europeans. In bestiaries, camels were indeed depicted as similar to sauropods: stocky, dense legs, a long and thick neck, and an elongated muzzle. And often one hump, which in the picture "Suicide of Saul" in camels strongly resembles the back of a diplodocus.
Dinosaurs and Creationism
Many supporters of creationism (that is, that our planet and everything around it was created by God) support the theory that dinosaurs and humans lived at the same time. After all, it completely refutes the evolutionary teachings of Darwin and proves that Homo sapiens did not originate from monkeys. According to the official theory, giant reptiles reached their peak 160 million years ago, but this is not consistent with the version of Christians who are used to believing that less than 7,000 years have passed since the creation of the world. There are 30 known references to dinosaurs in the Bible. Only there they are called "behemoth" and "leviathan". These terrible imposing creatures were created by God along with man on the sixth day of the universe. The hippopotamus is described as a herbivore with powerful legs like copper pipes, with bones like iron rods, with veins intertwined at the hips, and with a huge tail that he twirls like a cedar. his portraitvery reminiscent of the appearance of diplodocus. Leviathan, unlike the hippopotamus, is a marine animal. The Bible speaks of him as a huge monster with sharp teeth and a body covered with strong shields that fit tightly together. From the mouth of the leviathan spews fire, smoke comes out of its nostrils. This description no longer resembles any dinosaur known to us. Especially marine.
Dinosaurs ate people
Nothing is known about dinosaurs eating humans. Neither the Ica stones nor the Acambaro figurines depict bipedal carnivorous dinosaurs. And even more so, there is no plot in the work of the ancestors about how a dinosaur ate a man. Even if you believe that the ancient inhabitants met with dinosaurs, it becomes clear that for the most part these reptiles were herbivores, and it was more likely that a person hunted them, and not vice versa.
Dinosaurs vs Humans
If you start from the drawings of the ancient inhabitants of Peru on Ica stones, you can understand a lot about the relationship between man and this animal. Sauropods were slow and non-aggressive creatures, so they could hardly do something serious to a man armed with a spear. If people met with prehistoric giants, then first of all they wanted to tame the animal and make it work for themselves. Since people were smarter than dinosaurs even in the distant past, they succeeded. What is proved by numerous drawings of everyday scenes about dinosaurs and people.
Conclusion
So did people cross the timelinewith dinosaurs? There will never be a clear answer to this question. Everyone has the right to decide for himself whether people lived in the time of dinosaurs or not. We can choose the version that is most attractive and closest to our worldview, and we will be right, because it is unlikely that humanity will ever know how it really was. But sometimes the most absurd and implausible version turns out to be correct and makes a person believe in the impossible.
