Posted on 03/04/2002 12:05:29 PM PST by afraidfortherepublic
I'm teasing... Among my guilty pleasures are appetites for science fiction and entertaining pseudo-science. Good mental junk food.
I think the Mystery of Acamabaro revolves around how the hoax was pulled off, because it's an elaborate one. Something like 35,000 figurines.
I saw www.bible.ca's "Cretacious" Miner's Hammer a year or so ago. IOW, that site is a joke.
See my #61.
I've got Charles H. Hapgood's "Mystery in Acambaro." It's almost as good as Velikovsky, Hollow Earth, or Attenuated Gravity theories.
I dabble in Sci Fi screenplays, so I gobble this crap up... Good, fun research.
The following fits in there somewhere.
THERMOLUMINESCENCE DATING OF ART OBJECTS
Ceramics from Indonesia and much of Oceania are not suitable for TL dating (and virtually all objects from West Mexico in the New World share this unfortunate problem).
From the Acambaro link(in the link notice where Guadalajara is in relation to the find.)
Eighteen samples were subjected to thermoluminescent testing by the University of Pennsylvania, all of which gave dates of approximately 2500 BC. These results were subsequently withdrawn when it was learned that some of the samples were from dinosaurs.
But, let me link the original
Plus some more Dinos
It appears as if there is plenty of wood for carbon dating.
Perhaps their cheese-eating French origin can explain why Wisconsin is such a large producer of cheese today.
Vine Deloria claims the American Indians were here from the beginning and his "Red Earth, White Lies" makes a shambles of the standard "Overkill Hypothesis" which is taught in university courses. Anybody interested in American prehistory should have a copy.
"In the 1940s and 1950s the Iguanodon was completely unknown. No hoaxer could have known of the Iguanodon existence much less made a model, for it wasn't until 1978 of 1979 that skeletons of adult Iguanodons were found with nests and babies. (2)"
What's wrong with this statement?
Iguanadons were the very first dinosaurs to be identified as such in the early 1800s.
Swift is probably confusing the 1978 discovery of Maiasauria nests by Jack Horner.
I understand that the artifact has not been made available for carbon dating. Pity.
(PS: There's a telling reference to concretion in the original article.)
LOL! As a proud Cheesehead, the cheesemaking came from the Swiss, Germans and Dutch. The French were here for a while, as fur traders, not cheesemakers, but they got bored and moved to Quebec.
(Now I can be the life of the party!)
Yes, and some of us continued the migration further south and took our triangular cheese shaped hats with us.
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