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The Morien Institute Interview - Page Eight of more Yonaguni evidence from the personal website of Professor Masaaki Kimura


more Yonaguni evidence from the personal website of
Professor Masaaki Kimura


University of the Ryukyus
Okinawa, Japan



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The controversy that has erupted in archaeological circles around the world since the discovery of an enigmatic

structure, described by some as ‘pyramid-like’, at Iseki Point, just off the coast of the southernmost

Japanese island of Yonaguni-Jima, some 15 years ago, looks set to get even hotter as news

emerges that the so-called ‘Yonaguni Monument’ is just one of a number of

underwater megalithic structures in a ‘complex’ stretching for

many hundreds of miles northeast of Taiwan.

 


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Around Yonaguni-jima there are a large number of stones, both above and below sea-level, which show clear evidence of ‘wedge-marks’ having been cut into the surfaces ready for splitting. Near the ‘Tategami-iwa’, there is a square-shaped megalith measuring more than 30 feet, and this is called ‘Sekihi-iwa’.

an image of the square-shaped megalith measuring more than 30 feet that is called 'Sekihi-iwa', and which shows evidence of wedge-marks made ready for splitting.





Okinawa, Japan

 


There is a straight line of holes all of which are 40 – 50 cm away from the edge of the stone at 20 – 30 cm intervals; they are of a funnel shape and are 5 – 6 cm deep. They seem to be ‘wedge-marks’, though some investigators have suggested they may have been post-holes despite the shallow depth.

 


an image of some of the funnel-shaped holes known as pu-ru

Okinawa, Japan

 


There are also many other instances of what appear to be ‘wedge-marks’ found above and below sea-level. Good examples of this can be seen in the images below, where the white arrows point to the evidence of similar ‘toolmarks’ on dry land near San’ninu-dai, and also underwater on the ‘Upper Terrace’ of the No. 1 Monument at Iseki Point

images of tool-marks and wedge-marks above sea-level on the island of Yonaguni-jima




Okinawa, Japan

images of what appear to be tool-marks and wedge-marks below sea-level on the ocean floor





Okinawa, Japan



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“Do undersea relics near Okinawa offer proof of a sophisticated civilization during the last ice age?


Archeologists have long believed that civilization as they define it — intelligent, tool-making, monument building, social humans — began about 5,000 years ago.


But submerged beneath the waves near the Japanese island of Yonaguni is evidence that may well overturn that long-held theory.


A small but persuasive number of scholars and scientists have long thought that “advanced” societies may have existed as long as 10,000 years ago.


Their theories, however well reasoned and defended, have been hamstrung by a lack of evidence.


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Following the great cataclysms and mass extinctions of 11,500 years ago, land that once lay between the Chinese mainland

Okinawa and Japan was inundated. Only in the last 15 years or so has the attention of marine scientists been

drawn to the existence of ‘undersea walls’ off Taiwan, ‘stepped-pyramid-like structures’, and


very ‘unusual artifacts’ that have been discovered underwater in the East China Sea.


Needless to say, archaeologists and prehistorians studiously ignore them.


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