Re: Kensington Runestone - Nielsen and Wolters.

"Daryl Krupa" <icycalmca@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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> Eric Stevens wrote:
>> On 5 Jan 2006 01:46:45 -0800, "Daryl Krupa"
>> <icycalmca@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Yes, accelerated weathering of Maine tombstones may have biased
> age-estimates of weathering towards an appearance of extra age,
> which would mean that if the KRS looked as old as a 200-year-old
> Maine tombstone, and the KRS had not experienced the acid rain
> experienced by the Maine tombstone, then the KRS would seem to be
> older than a 200-year-old Maine tombstone, because the Tombstone
> was not as old as it looked, which means that the KRS would seem
> to be less likely to be younger than the 200-year-old Maine
> tombstone.
> But that comparison brings non-natural weathering into the
> argument,
> which raises questions about the reliability of the Maine
> tombstone record
> as a comparison to the KRS record, because that comparison is
> based on the unspoken assumption that only natural weathering
> took place on both
>
> the Maine tombstones and the KRS.


What about the possibility that the tombstones are younger than the
date given on them? It might be obvious to anybody who knows the
customs of 19th century America that the dates are accurate, but
around here it happens that the stones are not raised soon after
the funeral, I have one example in my family where there were a
period of 14 years between the events. And stones gets polished,
which I imagine would erase most of the weathering.

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The last link in your previous post was really interesting.



Lisbeth.

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*What we know is not nearly as interesting as *how we know it.



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