That paper is pretty... out there, sorry. There's a reason people look for credentials -- to screen out work like this!
1. The random insinuation halfway through that ancient humans had secret advanced civilizations seems completely uncalled-for, and would put any discerning reviewer on edge. Which is I guess why this is in a plasma science journal and not an anthropology one?
2. AFAIK, the whole thing only works if A) aliens, B) Sol put off 10-100 times more radiation than it does today, or C) "another source of plasma were to enter the solar system" (???).
3. Figure 30 especially cracks me up, where he argues that a figure with hands and genitals isn't a human, but rather a geometric shape. IDK... seems like a reach. Ditto for explaining spirals as recordings of the sky rather than a basic shape found throughout nature right here on earth.
> The random insinuation halfway through that ancient humans had secret advanced civilizations seems completely uncalled-for, and would put any discerning reviewer on edge.
Are you referring to Peratt’s quoting Mallory? That section of the paper is simply a review of historical work on petroglyphs and insinuates nothing at all. Context is a thing.
> AFAIK, the whole thing only works if A) aliens, B) Sol put off 10-100 times more radiation than it does today
No aliens required and such are not entertained in these papers.
Also, it's not about "more radiation" but an increase in "charged particle outflow" (flux).
> Figure 30…
Anthropomorphization was a human tendency long before someone invented terminology to describe it.