Re: Pseudoarchaeology in Australia


"Eric Stevens" <eric.stevens@xxxxxxxxx> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 03:00:28 -0700, Jack Linthicum
<jacklinthicum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


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The tragedy of all of this stuff is that if something genuine is found
it will be immediately dismissed as yet another fake.

The tragedy is, that once the artefact is removed from it's context, it can
be nearly impossible to proove that it is not only genuine, but was
deposited at a specific point in time.

As an example, there are quite a lot of north American stone tools in local
collections in northern Germany. Some can be traced to be donations of
travellers/seamen having visited NA. But a lot of them are without
identifiable background or have been picked up from the top soil. A few
cases can be shown to have been collected in NA, brought to Germany, and
thrown in the garbage when the original collector died. The garbage was
dumped on the fields, where the tools were picked up up years later.

Any tools hypothetically brought over the ocean by NA visitors in
pre-Columbian times would be lost among the multitude of stuff brought back
later, only artefacts from controlled excavations in undisturbed contexts
could proove an earlier contact. There are none AFAIK.

Compared with Norse finds in NA, NA finds in northern Germany exist in far
greater numbers. What does that say about pre-columbian NAs travelling to
northern Germany? Nothing.

So the question is not really wether some artefacts are genuine or not, but
at what time they were deposited.

have fun

Uwe Mueller


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