4 Out-Of-Place Artefacts that Shouldn't Have Existed
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Just an interesting side fact about Vinland: a study of trees in Iceland and Greenland has lead some botanic researchers to theorize that vikings were transporting seeds and saplings from Canada to support tree farms back home. This is very recent discovery, and I think it's very interesting.
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The penny story is amazing, not because it's actually that remarkable of a find, but because of the mental image of someone amazed at the discovery and talking about how revolutionary it is, while Mellgren just digs though his shell pile and goes "Cool. Go tell someone who cares"
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Having worked in a foundry, i can guarantee that if that hammer had fallen in hot slag, the handle would have been completely consumed by fire.
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Seems like the common denominator is grossly inaccurate dating methods…
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In the top drawer of my Ikea desk is a 19th century American gold $10 coin. Considering Ikea was not founded until 1943, how on earth could such an object have been deposited there?
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Please don’t distract me with facts when I have latched onto a perfectly good conspiracy theory.
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I'd say the Norse coin was probably traded for something and it gradually made its way down to Maine.
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The Vikings visited Vinland around 1090, based on dendochronology of trees used for the huts at L‘Anse aux Meadows. Sonia’s not too far fetched to discuss if one of their pennys found their way further down the coast, either through the Vikings themselves or as a token that was transferred between Native Americans.
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I had a conversation with a Seneca Iroquois that had a theory about the Vikings. He stated that there are about 200 words in the Iroquois language that are identical to Old Norse in every way. Don’t know if others investigated it.
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I stupidly lost a Roman silver denarius from my collection here in southern, Ontario, Canada. A first century B.C.E. denarius. It had been in my pocket, and I was shocked to find my pocket had gotten a hole in it just big enough for the coin to fall out. Just imagine someone finding it years from now and claiming that Romans must have crossed the Atlantic and made it to the Niagara region of Canada.
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The problem with the birds is the figurines depict a having a tail rudder, birds don't need them since they use ailerons.
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Funny how that amateur archeologist was so flippant about the Main Penny because he was interested in old pottery, not coins. Now the coin is all that he is remembered for.
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"The London Hammer" is totally going to be my MMA nickname. It's perfect, apart from the fact that I don't know MMA. And that I'm not from London.
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I dropped a plastic comb in a trench that I was digging in Germany in 1985, I later learned that people were doing a dig in the area in 1990. I wonder what they would make of a plastic comb being found at the Stone Age layer?
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The Maine Penny, if truly found there, proves one thing and only one thing. It was not there before it was minted. Once minted, it could have gotten there a year later or 100 years later or 500 years later. It just can’t be there before it was minted.
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In south-central Oklahoma, we've got a mineral-rich stream called "Travertine Creek." It's full of travertine, which'll come out of solution at the drop of a hat... or a bottle cap, or a bottle, or a hammer. We find modern junk embedded in travertine all the time, and we all know there's nothing unusual about it. Not all rocks take millions of years to form. A lot do, but not all.
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The hammer has fallen in silicate slag from a smelter. Slag contains a concentrated amount of impurities from a large amount of ore, so if you measure certain radioactive isotopes, it's going to give you an inaccurate reading compared to the ore it came from...
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The wood would have turned to stone or rotted away a long time ago.
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Absolutely absurd for hammer to exist 400 million years ago. It’s clear case of time travelers leaving their equipment behind
