Une carrière antédiluvienne

Well, don't forget to subscribe, to activate the notification bell, and to like. For you it's free, it costs nothing, but for the channel it's really a lot. So, thanks in advance. In 1985, at the southern end of the archipelago of Japan, off the island of Taiwan, Kihachiro Haratake, a tourist diving organizer located in the Yaeyama Islands, discovers what will be named the Yonaguni Submarine Structure. Immersed at a depth of 30 meters between the Pacific Ocean and the Sea of ​​China, this gray formation measures 75 meters long by 25 meters high. It is composed of different levels, of different platforms or flat terraces, giving it a slight pyramidal appearance. But what stands out the most with this submarine structure of Yonaguni is undoubtedly the geometric shapes that make it up. The straight lines, the sloping angles, sometimes at 90 degrees, or the parallel traces, are in total opposition to the sinuous curves of the surrounding ocean floor. Following this discovery, the main question was to determine whether this structure was of natural or artificial origin. The official version opted for a natural formation, in opposition to the controversy, arguing that this submarine formation was an ancient human construction. However, looking closer at the submarine site of Yonaguni, it is undeniable that we are not facing a construction. The whole structure is uniform, of a single block, and it is not an assembly of different elements, as we could see on a cyclopean wall, a temple or a pyramid. Since it is obviously not an architectural achievement, a construction, could it be that the submarine structure of Yonaguni is in reality just a simple pareidolia? After all, nature knows how to surprise us by offering us achievements with structured, geometric shapes, being able to let us think that it is an artificial achievement, coming from a form of intelligence, like basaltic orges, these natural rock formations, more or less regular, however coming from simple natural lava flows. But the submarine structure of Yonaguni is totally different from this type of observation. Its gray composition, a sedimentary rock, relatively hard, does not naturally allow to obtain such regular parallel lines. The sheeting of fragmentation of the gray can therefore not offer the typical geometry of the structure of Yonaguni. In addition, the general block of the Japanese submarine formation does not present degradations, fault lines or cracks. It is therefore very unlikely that only the outer envelope has undergone a natural degradation, leading to this type of straight terrace. The natural erosion by ocean currents can not explain the angular shapes and plateaus of Yonaguni either. The gray is located between 6 and 7 on the Moss scale, a scale used to determine the hardness of the minerals. If the sand or quartz raised by the sea currents could alter the gray, this does not explain the particular geometry of the site. Submarine erosion, as well as that caused by the wind, forms curves, breaking the angles and rounding the shapes. It does not naturally generate straight angles and smooth plateaus. We are therefore faced with a colossal block of submarine gray, which seems to have undergone an external action, offering it this appearance of artificial structure. Robert Schock, geologist and geophysicist at Yale University, studied the submarine structure of Yonaguni at the end of the 90s. He came to the conclusion that, if the geological structure of the site was of natural origin, not having any signs of assembly or construction, it could perfectly have been worked by man to give it its current appearance. Although this hypothesis seems to correspond to all observations, it raises major questions. What would the structure of Yonaguni have been used for? Since it is not a construction, a building or a palace, what was the function of this site? Gray is mainly used in construction. So, obviously, Yonaguni must have been a quarry, an extraction site. This would explain the successive terraces, corresponding to the different levels of gray plates, as well as the surrounding structures, resembling walls or stone paths, serving as access roads to the site of exploitation. The different levels of the structure would then be only the visible marks of the extraction of blocks, of different sizes and thicknesses, transforming this natural formation into a structure with geometric shapes. It is true that by observing this site in its general structure, we can perfectly imagine the stone slabs being removed from the original block, gradually digging this reserve of gray, to give it this appearance of superimposed artificial terraces. But since it is very unlikely that a quarry had been exploited underwater, how could Yonaguni, submerged more than 30 meters deep, have served as an extraction site? The answer may have been given by a study by the European Center for Research and Education in Geosciences of the Environment, which published in 2012 an article in the journal Nature, attesting to a brutal rise in the level of the oceans 14,500 years ago. The estimate of this rise in water is 130 meters over a few decades only. In other words, 15,000 years ago, the level of the oceans was 130 meters lower, revealing gigantic land surfaces and entire areas conducive to the development of ancient civilizations. The structure of Yonaguni, being located only 30 meters deep, is therefore the entire geography of the site that would have been accessible by the civilizations of this time. The submerged lands, currently located between the south of the Japanese archipelago and the island of Taiwan, would then have been outdoors, allowing humans to settle there and exploit the resources, making the site of Yonaguni an open-air quarry. Like many other archaeological sites on our planet, such as Gobekli Tepe or Gudung Padang, Yonaguni seems to force us to rewrite our vision of history. If this underwater structure was indeed a quarry 15,000 years ago, it means that the sedentary nature of humans, that human civilizations on the surface of the earth and that the technical means and knowledge of our distant past do not correspond at all to what our history books continue to teach us. Certainly, humans were present in this region 15,000 years ago, but officially, they were only small groups of nomadic hunter-gatherers, little developed and having no impact or influence on their direct environment. Yonaguni demonstrates the possible and more than likely existence of a sedentarized civilization, sufficiently developed to create a rock extraction site, meaning the creation and use of specific tools, but also the transport, the arrangement and therefore the use of these materials in more complex structures, demonstrating a much higher socio-cultural level than that of simple stone age men. Our humanity seems amnesic, desperately seeking to remember its past, but the evidence allowing us to see a different story from the one that is taught to us is disturbing. And just like the structure of Yonaguni, they generally end up hidden, hidden from view and far from the surface. Thank you for watching!