This is one of the theories so..."odd" that I haven't been able to find any actually good research on any of it. That's not because they're scared to engage with the powerful academic force of Michael Tellinger. It's because they are so obviously corrals and houses that they don't stand out as must-study specimens. Any archaeologist who looks at those structures sees literally nothing special. It's like if you've only ever seen blue Gatorade and I try to sell red Gatorade to you as a miracle elixir- obviously it's not the same as your Gatorade, it's red! Let's take a further look at what makes it so astoundingly awful.

• This research has been completed and publicized by just two people: Tellinger and his co-author Johan Heine. Neither has studied archaeology. Tellinger earned a degree in pharmacy, and then spent the 80s and 90s as a stage musical actor, film technician, and musician (he's released at least 13 CDs). The only place that calls him a "international authority on the origins of humankind " is his own site. If research is published by only one person, doubt it.

• Tellinger is also proud be the compatriot of several "celebrities" on his "About Us" page. Let's look at them. Graham Hancock (B.A. in sociology) is a racist hack journalist who believes all cultures came from one ancient unified culture. Robert Temple (B.A. in Oriental studies) promotes that an African tribe is in regular contact with aliens from the Sirius star system. David Wilcock is a New Age kook and Ancient Aliens star whose book on the 2012 prophecies discuss "DNA transformation, consciousness science, wormholes, stargate travel, sacred geometry, ancient conspiracies, multidimensional time, the Maya calendar, and a stunning new model of galactic energy fields triggering mental, biological, and spiritual evolution." Bob Dean, Kerry Cassidy, and Dr. Seven Greer are UFO-logists who insist governments are hiding information. Stanton Friedman (PhD) is a researcher who insists Roswell was really Aliens and that SETI is a waste of time. Couple this with an intense animosity towards every other archaeologist on the planet, "the brotherhood of conventional Archaeology, Paleontology and Anthropology, who collectively agree the earliest traces of civilization can be found with the Mesopotamians, circa 5,000 BCE." This is the cheapest of cheap strawman shots you'll see on every pseudo-archaeology blog. No archaeologist is arguing that. This idea of "civilization" springing out of the desert with uncertain antecedents is the product of simplified public school world history books from the 70s. Apparently that was Tellinger's last contact with archaeology.

• No legitimate dating methods have been used at the site, which they claim to be between 25,000 and 260,000 years old. An anonymous archaeoastronomer said that, based on old positions of the stars, some stones at Adam's Calendar line up with Orion's Belt from 75,000 years ago. This is not how you do archaeoastronomy. It is notoriously impercise, subject, and prone to confirmation bias. There's thousands of stars, of course something lines up. We also cannot treat it as some enormously advanced science to line up stones with stars- people across the globe have been doing it for thousands of years. Another date of 160,000 is based on the erosion of stone which has broken off of erect ones- I have no clue where they got the idea that stone weathering is a consistent process with a defined rate. I have yet to find a justification for the 260,00 year date.

• All in all, there's nothing that special there. Nothing is of astounding scale or technology. The claims about energy fields and sound frequencies of the earth have no scientific basis. If we're jumping to "Aliens landed and built this," they're gonna have to uncover freakishly accurate maps of the entire earth as it was 100 millenia ago carved in platinum or 200 foot tall spaceships. But there's been no excavation and it's literally a bunch of stone circles, one of which is "special" for having no doors. Ever heard of 3 dimensions?

• We also have to remember that a lot of Tellinger's claims are based in rather racist attitudes. Statements like "Before Michael Tellinger, there was only novel speculation about the origins of stone remains on the continent of Africa" are founded in the antiquated colonial ideas of "They're African tribesfolk! How could they ever do such things!" You also have wonderful statements like "it's now well acknowledged that they were futher technologically advanced than the present day" that just make you wonder where all the ancient iPhones are at.

Tellinger's theories are in the same category as 'aliens built the pyramids'. His weird and wonderful claims are not taken seriously by historians or archaeologists.

The photos on the linked page are photos of the ruins of kraals - huts and cattle enclosures built by Bantu peoples such as the Zulu and Xhosa - dating from the 18th and 19th centuries.