Posted on 03/14/2010 6:49:58 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
The finds were hugely intriguing. Visitors to Mr Fradin's museum, admission four francs, would find -- will still find -- masks and carvings of faces without mouths; bones pierced with holes, with the sun's rays scratched round them; ceramic pots, schist rings, polished stones. Some figures were hermaphrodite idols, with phalluses in their foreheads. Several bone carvings showed reindeer running, though reindeer were thought to have died out in that part of France 10,000 years earlier. But most exciting were the dozens of square clay tablets inscribed with letters which, if Neolithic, predated by many millennia the Phoenician characters from which Western alphabets were supposed to have come -- making Glozel, not the Middle East, the cradle of Western civilisation.
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OMG - The french are responsible for civilization....
That explains lawyers and politicians.
RIP, M. Fradin. Your story is very interesting.
mark
What is puzzling is that the hoard seems to be the repository of someone else’s collection or that the field was the site of an earlier dumping ground that had received the refuse of other centuries. I have been reading about this and to accuse a Frenc peasant boy of 17 of counterfeiting authentic looking stone age heiroglyphics is absurd. How would he know? Unless he was in cahoots with the scholarly neighbor there seems no way he would be able to replicate these things. Another thing of interest was that it is possible that carbon 14 testing is not always as reliable as the experts wish us to think. If he was leaked out that this method is not always accurate, then it would cause an uproar amidst the establishment scientific community.
The site Glozel was a disgrace to French archaeology for around 50 years. The academics created a vicious circle of rivalry and accused the amateur finder and the amateur archaeologist for fraud and delayed the topic. Now technical analysis has proven that the artefacts are real. At the same time they have new finds of the same kind from at least five other sites in Middle France.
The site Glozel was a disgrace to French archaeology for around 50 years. The academics created a vicious circle of rivalry and accused the amateur finder and the amateur archaeologist for fraud and delayed the topic. Now technical analysis has proven that the artefacts are real. At the same time they have new finds of the same kind from at least five other sites in Middle France... more...
http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~catshaman/0earlyhis/0script.htm
It is a very interesting story..The Economist always does a good obituary..
Of course, the late M. Fradin is to be hailed and remembered for his interesting find. But really, he merely confirmed what every Frenchman already knows, and over a pastis on your tab, would only be too happy to tell you unfortunate citizens of a lesser place.
Mes amis, did we not already know that la belle France was the center, nay the cradle, nay the Ground 0, of all civilization on this planet?
Quelle merde!
Everyone knows Ireland is the cradle of civilization..:)
Slainte..
The Bushmills Theory ... it is definitely better than most other theories, including Quantum Mechanics and Evolution. And, you can dance to it!
The Guinness theory..
God invented Guinness so that the Irish would not take over the world..
Slainte..
(1)Switch to Smithwick's,
(2) Take over Ulster first.
(3)After that, taking over the rest of the world will follow easily.
(4) Get back to Guiness. It's Good For You.
If you mean post #16, then nothing. I have NO IDEA why you posted that link, because I sure the Hell didn’t.
you mean they would have us throw out data that does not fi their theory? That’s absurd! They would never do such a thing!
RIP.
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