Mount Padang ancient temple of 13,000 to 23,000 years ago? Wed, 04-03-2013 19:45 WIB The Site of Mount Padang is the Evidence of Architectural Masterpieces of Ancient By : the Information Desk The Independent Research Integrated Mount Padang Team, which is facilitated by the Special Staff of President for Social Assistance and Disaster, found the stone structures of man-made beneath the ancient site of Mount Padang, at Karyamukti Village, the District of Campaka, Cianjur Regency. According to the result of survey of team who did an archaeological excavation and geoelectric surveys on the eastern slopes of the hill in March 2013, found the structure of colum andesite stone with near horizontal position elongated east-west. "From the horizontal position of the colum andesite rocks and its line direction, we can conclude with certainty that the colum stones or" columnar joints "is not in a natural condition," said Danny H. Natawidjaja, Coordinator of The Independent Research Integrated Mount Padang Team in Jakarta, Tuesday (2/4). In excavation, The Archaeological team which is led by DR. Ali Akbar from the University of Indonesia found the evidence to confirm the hypothesis of team that there are man-made structures in the basement of Mount Padang. The building structure is the same as with the structure of the stone terrace which has been revealed and become cultural sites on the hill. The excavation also found a filler material among the stones columns, even there is a stone column that was shattered but styled and put together again by the filler material as ancient cement. The Ancient cement has also been found on a canyon railroads between the porch steps one and two, and also on drill core samples from a depth of 1 to 15 meters of drilling conducted by the team in 2012 and then on the site. The Geologist team and also the center coaches of Indonesian Association of Geologists center, DR. Andang Bachtiar, find more surprising facts. The Cement material has a primary composition of 45% of iron mineral and 41% of mineral silica. The rest is 14% clay minerals and there is also the carbon element. "This is a good composition for strong cement adhesive, perhaps combining between the concepts of resin or modern strong adhesive made from silica materials and the use of concentration of the iron element which become as brick amplifiers," said Danny H. Natawidjaja. The high content of silica indicates that the cement is not the result of weathering of colum andesite rocks which is surrounded by a poor of silica. Then, the levels of iron in nature, even in the rocks at the ore mineral mining, generally the content of iron is not more than 5%, so iron levels in "Gunung Padang cement" is many times higher than natural conditions. Therefore it can be concluded that material which is lied between the columns andesite stones are man-made grout. So the technology of that time seems to have known metallurgy. One common technique to obtain a high concentration of iron is to carry out the combustion process from the broken rocks with very high temperatures. Similar to the making of bricks, which burn caolinite and illite clays to produce a high concentration of iron on the brick, explain Andang. Indications of ancient metallurgical technology is more strengthened by the findings of a lump of metal materials sized 10 inches by the team of Ali Akbar at the depth of 1 meter on the eastern slopes of Mount Padang. The rusty metal material possessed a rough surface hollow-small cavity on the surface. Presumably this material is a metal dough residue ("slug") that is mixed with carbon material which has become its combustor materials, can be from wood, coal or other. Cavities are likely to occur due to the release of CO2 when burning. The team will conduct further laboratorium analysis to investigate. The results of radiometric analysis of the content of the carbon element in some samples of cement in drill core from the depth of 5-15 meters which was conducted in 2012 at the prestigious Laboratory, BETALAB, Miami, USA in the mid-2012 shows its age with a range between 13,000 and 23,000 years ago. Previously, the results of carbon dating which carried out in the BATAN laboratory, the dominant quartz sand that fills the voids between the columns of andesite at the depth of 8-10 meters below the terrace of five also showed the same age range is about 13,000 years ago. Data from drilling conducted by DR. Andang Bachtiar and microscopic analyzes of rocks from drill core samples were carried out by DR. Andri Subandrio, geologist of volcanic rocks of the Petrology laboratory ITB, can be assured that the high resistivity body rock is andesite lava rock, the same rock type as the column of the site of mount Padang. Another thing that is interesting from petrological analysis is finding of many microscopic cracks in the thin section of andesite stone columns that allegedly non-natural because the cracks cut its constituent mineral crystals. Danny H. Natawidjaja states that mount Padang has same potency with Borobudur, even it is more meaningful because it can be a breakthrough of knowledge about "the craddle of civilizations" in this century, as a proof of the great monuments of the oldest civilizations in the glorious world that destroyed because of catastrophe thousands of years ago in the pre-history of Indonesia. "It is not impossible anymore if Indonesia as archipelago nation has civilization as advanced as the ancient Egyptian civilization, even in the much older," Danny said. (WID/ES)(HN/S) setkab.go.id/en/news-8100-the-site-of-mount-padang-is-the-evidence-of-architectural-masterpieces-of-ancient.html Google translation: Tim Terpadu Riset Mandiri: Gunung Padang Truly Extraordinary Kamis, 28 Juni 2012 , 15:13:00 WIB Laporan: Zulhidayat Siregar RMOL. At first, there are bumps on the hill of Mount Padang, Cianjur, West Java, is considered only in the form of terraces arranged piles of stones that simple. But, in fact it is not. Integrated Team Independent Research has proven that the site of Mount Padang is a structure-punden giant staircase that cover the slopes of the hill and made with architecture design-construction "advance" that can be called equivalent / similar to "building construction"-Michu Pichu in Peru . "That the results of the survey with subsurface imaging methods Geolistrik, georadar, and there are geometry showing geomagnetic-construction building in bawahsitus Gunung Padang," said Team Member DR. Boediarto Ontowirjo this afternoon (Thursday, 28/6). He explained that the building is at least about 15 meters occupies the peak. Building under the terraces of Mount Padang seems to have large chambers (indicated by the resistivity of the structure veryhigh geoelectric survey results). One small part of the chamber that was on the porch 5 (south site) has been proven by drilling, and it is true of a cavity, but filled with sand (with uniform grain), it seems to save something. "The estimated age of the site of Mount Padang in the topmost layer in archeology (Based on shape similarity artifacts) allegedly approximately 2800 BC, "he said. Of determining the absolute age based on radiometric analysis of carbon samples datingumur carbon flakes, he added, under a layer of depth to the top of the site on the 3-4meter obtained maximum age (oldest) 4500 BC. In other words, the expected life of the building in the upper layer is about 2800 - 4500 BC. Meanwhile, below the surface of the building site allegedly an older building because radio carbon dating results of samples metricdating carbon fragments contained in sand in cavities that are drilled in the Terrace 5. Ie at depths between 8-10 meters to show its age (maximum) around 10,500 BC. "This age is the age of the building can not be ascertained because it could have a life of its material is sand (which was brought from somewhere else). But at least it has been proved that the age of the rock-soil layers to a depth of 15 metera is a building construction is not natural rock layer (which should be millions of years old based on geological data in this region), "he said. [Zul] rmol.co/read/2012/06/28/68876/Tim-Terpadu-Riset-Mandiri:-Gunung-Padang-Truly-Extraordinary-
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