THE CASE OF THE MISSING ELEPHANT

SITCHIN ^ | 2000 FR Post 1-20-03 | ZECHARIA SITCHIN

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[tet68]

Baah, that's a shmoo if I ever saw one.

[MHGinTN]

Placemarker ... back in a second.

[MHGinTN]

Give a look at this material!... http://www.crystalinks.com/icastones.html

[MHGinTN]

Here's an easy link

[John Valentine]

I doubt that the Olmecs were African in origin. If that were so, their African genes would have been passed down into succeding generations and succeeding civilizations.

Unless one of the most vibrant and successful ciilizations ever known to pre-Columbian America just packed it's collective bags one day and went back to Africa.

And that "elephant" is not an elephant. It is obviously an anteater.

[Servant of the Nine]

Looks a lot more like a mole, shrew or other small rodent than an elephant to me.

So9

[William Terrell]

I've seen these sets of features on men of other races. Edward G Robinson is the first that comes to mind.

Since people usually make statues of leaders and not the common person, it may be that either the leadership was hereditary and these features were dominant or the leaders were chosen and these feature were prized as strong and trustworthy.

[arthurus]

And that "elephant" is not an elephant. It is obviously an anteater

Not with those ears.

[boris]

Well, even though this is a bit over the top, there may be something to it. Cocaine residue has been confirmed in hair strands found on Egypitan mummies. So startling was this fact that the discoverer was at first ridiculed--until others replicated her discovery.

Since cocaine is derived from a new-world plant, finding it in Egyptian mummies from 3000 B.C. would be "interesting".

I would not be at all surprised if it were one day shown that commerce was widespread--all around the world-- in times that we are pleased to call "primitive".

Not to say I believe in Atlantis or anything.

--Boris

[spetznaz]

Quite interesting.

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[No Truce With Kings]

Looks more like a stylized Disney mouse than an elephant to me.

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[Calvin Locke]

I vaguely recall a documentary on the volcanic activity (formation of the Rockies) in North America eons ago. I'm pretty sure that elephants did indeed roam the continent.

[Swordmaker]

Give a look at this material!... http://www.crystalinks.com/icastones.html

The Icastones have been proven to be modern forgeries. They have caught the perpetrator in mid-carve!

[MHGinTN]

I'm aware that forgeries have been found and the forgers. What has not been dicounted are the original stones and those stones have been tested and found to be very old. It is akin to the cave drawings thought to be recent forgeries, yet a muddobbers nest dated to be 35,000 years old was found plastered over one of the paintings, thus proving that at least that image is very old.

[Swordmaker]

Only ONE person is responsible for finding the icastones and he has been implicated in the forgery. Stones cannot be "dated" to indicated any timeframe they may have been converted into artifacts. Please provide a peer reviewed article link for the "mud daubber" dating... exactly what percentage of the "mud" was composed of carbon that could be dated? Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.

[MHGinTN]

I'm not in the mood to dig for the data on the caves in Southern France (Lescaux? --sp?--). Suffice it to say, the scientists were able to date the mud deposit, though I don't know if it was carbon dating. May have been an isotope dating method other than carbon.

Material imbedded in the carving fissures was how the original testing weighed for very ancient in the initial stones found in the Peruvian cave. I'm not in the business of proofing these stories, or debunking them if you will. I just find them interesting.

[MHGinTN]

BTW, I'm not a fan of Sitchin's outlandish assertions, but this one appears of interest, this elephant claim. There are numerous ways the Olmecs might have lived in South America without leaving genetic traces to find so easily. The evidence for cocaine in ancient Egypt would appear to argue for some contact between the land masses, since that plant is not indigenous to the African continent.