Ancient modern tools

While quarrying limestone in 1786, workers came to a bed of sand about 50 feet below ground level. In the layer of sand, however, they found the stumps of stone pillars and fragments of half-worked rock. Digging further, they found coins, the petrified wooden handles of hammers, and pieces of other petrified wooden tools. The sand in which the discovery was made was beneath a layer of limestone dated at 300 million years old.…

Chain in coal

In 1891, Mrs. S. W. Culp, of Morrisonville, Ill. was fragmenting coal into smaller pieces for her kitchen stove when she noticed a chain stuck in the coal. The chain measured about 10 inches long and was later found to be made of eight-carat gold, and described as being “of antique and quaint workmanship.” According to the Morrisonville Times of June 11, investigators concluded that the chain had not simply been accidentally dropped in with the coal, since some of the coal still clung to the chain, while the part that had separated from it still bore the impression of where the chain had been encased.…

Buenos Aires skull

 

In 1896, workers excavating a dry dock in Buenos Aires found a skull, at the level of 11 meters (36 feet) below the bed of the river La Plata, after breaking through a layer of limestonelike substance, in a Pre-Ensenadan stratum. The deposit is dated one to one and a half million years old. There are two problems with the discovery if we follow the conventional view: anatomically modern humans did not exist a million years ago and there were no humans in the Americas before about 20,000 years ago. As with Reckโ€™s skull in Tanzania, there is no indication that the skull fragment was actually embedded in an undisturbed geological deposit. Certainly a very inconvenient artifact……

OOPArts

What are Ooparts? That stands for Out of Place Artifacts. Things that show up where they shouldn’t, a piece of gold chain found in a coal seam, what appears to be a sparkplug embedded in rock that is thousands of years old and what appears to be a bullet hole in the skull of a mastodon. These things are ooparts.

 

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