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Originally posted by SQUEALER
Don't be surprised when they start to find automobile skeletons stuck in volcanic rock.
Originally posted by LABTECH767
Just out of curiosity did you ever hear about the statues that washed out after heavy rains in northern Italy that may be from a lost and unknown culture, a lot on this site is suspect and maybe I have entered the wrong search criteria but maybe you can shed some light on these.
s8int.com...
Woetzel then invented a story about a former lawyer named Mario Tolone Azzariti, who is an archaeologist sent to Carlia (a country in Italy) to investigate reports of discoveries made of hundreds of ancient artifacts which includes alleged "dinosaurian representations" coming from the pre-Greek civilization of Calabria dated to be 3,000 years old. Hoax Artifacts even claims,
"Tolone Azzariti, had developed a wide knowledge of classical cultures from years of study in the historical libraries and in the National archaeological Museum of Naples, but it had never seen objects of this character, not from the age of the Greeks, nor Phonecians or Roman…."
Here, Dian Ardiyansah, possible webmaster behind Hoax Artifacts, are making it as if Azzariti discovered remnants of an advanced civilization with styles, culture, and technology way beyond time, similar to what is seen in pulp fiction novels. But no, that's not what Azzariti really saw. The claim about such discoveries made in Italy is all the way false. According to this article (in both Italian and English), what Azzariti did found in reality was ancient tombs that were vandalized long ago by locals. While the rich put the ashes of their loved ones in the urns and buried them in the tombs, the poor people in turn broke into the tombs, stole the urns, and empty them of their ashes so they can cook their meals in them before putting ashes back into the urns and then back into the tomb. The artifacts found in the tomb are axes and stone weapons and zoomorphing artifacts that represent sheep and goats that the pre-hellenistic people have highly prized for their skins, meat, milk, sacrifice, and work. These artifacts are dated to the time when the early tribes of Calabria transformed themselves from a nomadic group to agricultural farmers that formed civilizations that dotted the region about 3,500 BC/BCE.
Originally posted by LABTECH767 Like I say there is a lot on that website that is probably just more recycled fakery but they are interesting and just maybe the Etruscan empire that Rome was a member city of before coming into it's own was not the first classical civilisation in Italy or the oldest ...
Not possible assert the paleontologists, it cannot be assert the historians, but still the sculpture exists and Tolone asserts to have found it in area of Caria with hundreds of other ancient artifacts, of a pre-Greek civilization of Calabria, that is at least 3000 years old...
Originally posted by SilverStar33
Regardless of the debunkers,OP You have a thread that obviously got people thinking for themselves.Please respond in the negative or affirmative to the idea I proposed,if it is your will.
The construction has been dated to the early 1st century BCE. Technological artifacts approaching its complexity and workmanship did not appear again until the 14th century CE, when mechanical astronomical clocks began to be built in Western Europe.[5]
Originally posted by Cuervo
reply to post by LUXUS
I'm pretty sure it is a Cr inoid fossil.
They all look totally mechanical and sci-fi. Honestly, I'd think I discovered Atlantis if I came across one. Pretty cool looking.
Originally posted by Harte
Originally posted by LUXUS
reply to post by the_philth
Have the academics debunked the spark plug in the geode yet?
Why don't you first tell us exactly why it is that you believe that's a geode?
Here's what a geode looks like:
Harte
Usual thing that happens is that a 1930's car race goes along a mountainside road. Car engine overheats, driver and engineer go out and open the car hood to repair the engine. They take apart the engine, toss away the spark plug in anger, and it goes flying down into a riverbed. Underwater, the oils on the sparkplug make the mud retain water until eventually when the riverbed dries out, you have a "fossiized sparkplug".
Originally posted by ikonoklast
I'm just curious. After reading through this thread and looking at the pictures of crinoid fossils plus looking up more crinoid fossil images on Google images, I was struck with how much the following photo resembles some of them:
What do you think? Does it look like a crinoid fossil?
FYI, this is a bit of a trick question, but I would like to hear what people think.
Originally posted by Byrd
Originally posted by ikonoklast
I'm just curious. After reading through this thread and looking at the pictures of crinoid fossils plus looking up more crinoid fossil images on Google images, I was struck with how much the following photo resembles some of them:
What do you think? Does it look like a crinoid fossil?
FYI, this is a bit of a trick question, but I would like to hear what people think.
Speaking for the scientists (paleontologists), nobody will make a guess without knowing the scale of the photo (and colors) and location. You can't tell what something is without knowing the context. ...
Cool shape, but you didn't give documentation. I assume that documentation would give the whole thing away?
... When you see these fossils "in situ" in the formation, along with the OTHER fossils from the same critters, it's obvious what they are. Taken out of context, they could be anything.