Dismissed as fakes for a century, enigmatic Puerto Rican stones could rewrite history

Miami Herlad ^ | 10/07/2019 | Jim Wyss

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Utuado, Puerto Rico - For more than a century, the fist-sized rocks etched with enigmatic patterns were ignored by academics and shunned by cultural power brokers.

Discovered in Puerto Rico in the 1880s by a priest who was convinced they were a link to one of the Lost Tribes of Israel, the stones were declared forgeries in the early 1900s by researchers from the Smithsonian Institution.

And so the rocks languished — literally collecting dust.

When Puerto Rican archaeologist Reniel Rodríguez Ramos first stumbled onto the collection in 2001, the artifacts were so unappreciated that one was being used as a doorstop.

“These stones were considered garbage,” Rodríguez recalls. “They were getting no love from any institution or even any archaeologist in Puerto Rico.” But now the rocks, known as Las Piedras del Padre Nazario, or Father Nazario’s Stones, are undergoing a radical reevaluation. Not only is there growing evidence that they’re genuine antiquities, there are also clues that they might represent a lost language — a finding that could rewrite the island’s pre-Columbian history.

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Never heard of this before and I live on the island. We have a very strong Sephardic Jew heritage here. Not sure if related.

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Puerto Rico Ping! Please Freepmail me if you want on or off the list.

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It would do uswell to go through the Smithsonian’s early archives and re-authenticate everything. They had some seriously shady and political stuff going on very early at that Institute. What happened to the skeletons of giants that were reported far and wide in the late 1800s? Not just in pulp magazines, but in books written by clergyman and scientists. In most cases, evidence was sent to the Smithsonian and never heard from again.

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On the back of the Puerto Rico stones was inscribed OAC.

They must be genuine.

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Ping.

[MomwithHope]

We have been there. We made 2 vacation trips to PR in the 80’s. We have slides of the monoliths there, they look a lot better than the ones on the internet, less wear.

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I am considering leaving California and If you don’t mind my asking, how do you like puerto Rico? What area are you in and is the crime rate ok?

Northrop Grumman had a plant in Puerto Rico but people that traveled there said crime was really bad.

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The DISGUSTING Miami Herald says that you have to disable your adblocker or subscribe to see this article!!!!

One cannot subscribe to every local rag—no matter whether you live there or not!!!! And my own local paper is too leftist to want to deal with!

Blocking adblockers and demanding money is nothing short of PIRACY!!!! PHOOEY!!!!

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“They had some seriously shady and political stuff going on very early at that Institute. “

Off topic but the institute has been totally hijacked by leftists. Very bad.

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I saw that documentary 😉

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I love Puerto Rico. I was born here and it has been my home for all my life except for my time in the US Army.

Crime? It’s bad if compared with, say, Hershey, PA. But it is not worse than any major mid-sized mainland U.S. city.

I am in San Juan. There’s a large aerospace industry cluster in the northwest corner of the island, at and around the old Ramey Air Force base. That area and along the entire west coast of the island seem to be a favorite among continentals. I haven’t been out there myself since I stopped flying.

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I am using both Ghostery and NoScript. While a few of the images do not render, I am past the adblocker notice and can read the article text. My NoScript is blocking their anti adblocker notice script from running on my page.

But here is the source most likely this came from published in July for you. Looks like it was originally posted to Ancient Origins...

https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/puerto-rican-figures-0012307

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Not related to Jews (except as researchers). Interesting find. It's understandable that people thought these were probably fakes since in the late 1800's there were many fakes created by religious people trying to perpetuate "lost tribes" ideas and such.

These are authentic pre-Columbian but 600 years old. Secrets of mysterious stone artifacts revealed in Israeli lab

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I’ve heard of a lot of candidates for people being a “lost tribe of Israel”, but I’ve never heard the “Puerto Rican” theory!

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What, you don't remember the original Puerto Rican Jew?

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Thanks for the article. Not sure how cultural interchange among pre-Columbian peoples seem so strange. There have been found rock markings near Atlanta that are very similar if not identical to the ones found in the Caribbean.

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