Arthur Posnansky

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Arthur Posnansky (1873 - 1946) was a Peruvian engineer, explorer and archaeologist. He was among the first to explore the ruins of Tiwanaku.

[edit] Writings

Arthur Posnansky wrote his first book 'Races and prehistoric monuments in the Andean highlands' in 1911 followed by 'A Prehistoric Metropolis in South America' in 1914. Both these books proposed a prehistoric Germanic migration to South America. This theory was also supported by German archeologist Edmund Kiss who had also met and worked with Arthur Posnansky in the 1920's in Bolivia.

During the Third Reich Arthur Posnansky published two books on racial science and anthropology that supported Nordicism. In his book 'What Is race' published in 1943 he uses the term Nordic-Atlantean ^[1] which implies he had connections to Alfred Rosenberg who first used the term in his book The Myth of the Twentieth Century. Like Edmund Kiss he also believed in the mythical Nordic connections to Atlantis. Arthur Posnansky’s works were therefore seen as pseudo-history and alternative. He was a strong believer in the World Ice Theory.

[edit] Later Life

A year before Arthur Posnansky died in 1946, he published his final book and most successful work Tihuanacu, the Cradle of American Man. In this book Posnansky argued like Edmund Kiss that Tiwanaku was constructed long before the traditional accepted date of 200 CE by ancient Nordic European migrants. This theory was later developed by notable writers such as Graham Hancock. As an engineer Arthur Posnansky is also remembered for introducing the first car to Bolivia.

1. ^ What Is race, p57