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Paleo-pole overlay
Ancient equator
+30° parallel
-30° parallel
North paleo-pole
Monument axis
In 1953, a history professor at Keene State College in New Hampshire sent a letter to Albert Einstein. He was not a physicist, nor a geologist. His name was Charles Hapgood, and his idea was as simple as it was revolutionary: the Earth's crust, that relatively thin layer of solid rock on which we live, can slide over the mantle beneath — like the peel of an orange over its pulp. Einstein not only replied to the letter, he wrote the foreword to Hapgood's book Earth's Shifting Crust, published in 1958, calling the idea «original, of great simplicity, and potentially of great importance to everything that concerns the history of the Earth's surface».
Decades later, the academic world would prove Hapgood right without admitting it. What he called «crustal displacement», mainstream science today calls True Polar Wander. In 1997, Joseph Kirschvink of Caltech published in Science evidence of a TPW event of about 90 degrees that occurred 535 million years ago. In 2006, Adam Maloof of Princeton documented in the GSA Bulletin two displacements of over 50 degrees each, about 800 million years ago. The same mechanism, in a more modest version, may have been triggered by the Younger Dryas cometary impact, 12,850 years ago.
Mark Carlotto analyzed the alignments of over 200 megalithic sites. Only half are aligned to modern geographic or astronomical directions. About 80 percent of the rest appear aligned to earlier positions of the north pole. Göbekli Tepe, the Giza pyramids, Teotihuacán, Stonehenge, Carnac, Tongatapu — when we realign them to a paleo-pole in Hudson Bay, the numbers add up. This globe shows it: pick a paleo-pole and the ancient equator, the 30-degree bands and the monument axes arrange themselves around a pole that no longer exists today.
The paleomagnetic evidence, the Buildreps and Carlotto alignments on 1,130 ancient sites, the physical mechanism capable of moving the crust within historical time — the article continues in Vol. 1, Chapters 1, 2 and 19 («The Crust That Slides», «The Clock Stopped on the Catastrophe», «The Web of Stone»).
This simulation visualizes the model discussed in the book; sources and the complete argument are in the chapters indicated.