Earth’s capture of the moon c.2000bc
By Gary Gilligan

How Earth gained such a large moon is still one of the great unsolved mysteries of our time. I propose past planetary chaos involving Earth, Mars and Venus resulted in the capture of the moon in orbit around the Earth c.2000 BC. This chaotic ‘capture’ of the moon paralleling a “Dark Age” as proposed by archaeologists.

I will show that the moon could not have existed during prehistory as evidenced by the absence of the moon in Neolithic artwork and artifacts.

Though I have amassed a great deal of corroborative material supporting past planetary chaos covering the periods between 3000-500BC, in this essay, I will limit the discussion to Neolithic cultures and will separate these from the later ‘fully formed’ civilizations such as the Sumerians. (c.3000bc.)

Additional evidence will be discussed in future work.