Synchrotron Radiation from an Intense Auroral Z-Pinch Recorded in Prehistory

Summary form only given. A direct correlation of some dozens of morphologies of Z-pinch instabilities to archaic petroglyphs, thought to date to 3000-2000 BPE, has been made. The accuracy of the petroglyphs in depicting MHD instabilities suggests the influx to Earth of intense plasma, visible as highly collimated synchrotron light from sub-gigampere currents. Data obtained by GPS logging the locations of archaic petroglyphs throughout the American Southwest, Valcamonica Italy, Northern South American, Australia, and Chile indicates that the plasma influx was into the Earth's southern magnetic pole. In all cases the petroglyphs have a southern field-of-view (FOV) component. The southern horizon inclination angles of the carvings are nearly zero degrees at 50 degrees latitude north increasing to a maximum of about forty degrees inclination at latitude 31 degrees south. At mid and southerly latitudes, knife-edge apertures consisting of the slope of a canyon wall or rocks meters away to mountain ranges tens of kilometers to the south were used for light shielding. At high northerly latitudes, the Earth's curvature served this purpose. Estimates of the luminosity of the synchrotron radiation are made