Did you ever sit down for an evening at a card table with a 1,000-piece puzzle? By yourself? It takes hours and hours to put it together, doesn’t it, with trial and error – and patience – all playing their parts.

We’re still trying out some of the as yet unfitted pieces in our worldwide puzzle, and we’ve been “at the table” since 1949. However, even though still not complete, it shows us a graphic representation of the Earth’s picture as it was 11,500 years ago.

Look at a globe of the World. Pick out Longitude 90 degrees W – Latitude 60 degrees N. This point is in the western part of the Hudson Bay.

Now hold the globe so that the spot 90 deg. W – 60 deg. N is at the North Pole, on the axis of rotation. This was the configuration of the World between 18,500 years ago and 11,500 years ago. The North Polar ice cap formed the Laurentian Basin in Canada.

The continents, however, were not quite the same. There was a huge continent in the Atlantic Ocean, which stretched from England across the Atlantic to the Bahamas. The Caribbean Sea and possibly even the Gulf of Mexico did not exist; there is evidence of the Caribbean being land at that time. An ice cap on the globe’s opposite side from Hudson Bay covered western Australia, and eastern Australia was burgeoning with humans, animals, birds, vegetation, and rivers.

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There was another continent in the pacific – covering an area now ringed by the Hawaiian Islands, the Galapagos, Easter Island, Tahiti, the Solomons, and the Caroline Islands. Have you ever noticed the heavy sedimentary stratifications making up the top half of Diamond Head? They have the same characteristics of the strata exposed in the walls of Grand Canyon, Monument Valley and the mysterious Canyon de Chelly.

The Province of Ceylon held the major civilization of India. Ahoydia in northern India was the thriving capital of that country. It was then called Adjudia.

Greece – land of the Hellenes – was the home of a tall, blue-eyed, blonde race with standards of science and law unmatched to this day.

The Amazon basin was an inland sea – legends call it the Sea of Xarayes – and the mouth of the Amazon River was then a wide, seagoing connection between the Atlantic and the Sea of Xarayes. The western coast of South America was not mountainous – indications are that the prehistoric city of Tiahuanaco, Bolivia, now at 12,500 feet above sea level, was at sea level. It was a metropolis seaport, with a canal system for seagoing ships – as large as any today – traversing from the Pacific to an inland sea. If you wish to read details about this, read The Calendar of Tiahuanaco and

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