The June 1851 issue of the Scientific American described a metallic object blasted out of solid rock by workmen excavating in Dorchester, Massachusetts. The object consisted of “a bell shaped vessel, 4.5 inches high, 6.5 inches at the base, 2.5 inches at the top, and an eighth of an inch in thickness”. Although the article reported it to be made of a silver alloy which looked the color of zinc, a recent owner, in a letter to Steiger, says it is made of brass with iron and lead. It was inlaid in pure silver with six flowers and the base was also inlaid with what looks like a vine. The magazine described the chasing, carving and inlaying as “exquisitely done”. Yet the vessel had been blown out of solid pudding stone, “fifteen feet below the surface… There is no doubt but that this curiosity was blown out of the rock”, the article concludes. The origins of the vessel remain a mystery but man made objects do not get embedded in rock so solid that dynamite is needed to shatter it.
In 1971, bulldozers moving earth for mine exploration revealed traces of human remains in soft sandstone said to be 100 million years old. The remains were underneath about 15 feet of material including “five or six feet of solid rock” and yet there appeared to be no caves or crevices in the overlying strata. Bits of bone and teeth were first found but then the excavators noted a more significant bone embedded in the rock. Local experts from the University of Utah were brought in and under their direction parts of two skeletons and a mixture of teeth and bone shards were uncovered. They described the skeletons as Homo sapiens. One of the bodies seemed to conform with the burial pattern of some Indian tribes.
Oddly, the academic experts seemed to lose interest, moved on to other establishments and apparently never wrote up the find formally. But the bones were, on the face of it, the same age as the rock matrix. If the remains really had fossilized and were of an age comparable with the surrounding rocks, as some reports claimed, then this find would have been highly valuable in placing man like beings in distant geological times. One wonders whether a close examination was made of the remains to determine whether the description of them as Homo sapiens would have held up. Or were the fossils assumed to be Homo sapiens because they looked human. Had the local experts only made a cursory examination, lost interest and moved on before rigorous anatomical studies had been carried out?
The Tall “Woman” with a Tail
Let us step back a few years to a particularly interesting case. In 1898, two brothers said to be versed in “desert antiquities” found the fossilized remains of a “female”, who was seven and a half feet tall, in the same stratum as fossils of “prehistoric camels and an elephant like creature with four tusks”. Fossils of palm trees, ferns and fish were also found. The curious thing about these “human” remains was that the “female” had a tail, having several extra vertebrae at the end of her spine. Our turn of the century archaeologists surmised that Death Valley, where the fossils had been found, had once been on the continental shelf of the Pacific Ocean, and the fossilized lady’s bones had been laid down at that time. Death Valley, like White Sands, lies in the Rocky mountains which were thrust up in a series of gigantic pulses through the Mesozoic and early Cenozoic eras, the very time when the earth was roamed by dinosaurs—until their extinction marked the boundary between the two geological ages.
Could the large “female” with the tail be the best described specimen yet found of the man like super dinosaurs? What though of the “camels” and four tusked “elephant” found with her? Isn’t it quite likely that bones of small dinosaurs could be mistaken for those of camels and that bones of larger dinosaurs that had horns or tusks could be mistaken for the more familiar elephants? Even Mantell, when he reconstructed iguanodon from its remains, thought the thumb spike was a horn like a rhinoceros’s. It is unlikely that any single specimen was complete, the remains were 65 million years old and, although, students of “desert antiquities”, the finders were not professional paleontologists. The evidence may be better explained by our thesis of the intelligent dinosaur.
A letter to Nature in 1873 reported the discovery in Miocene strata of a fragment of bone probably belonging to a dinotherium and engraved with a picture of a horned quadruped and traces of several other figures. This discovery implies the existence of an intelligent creature capable of art work some 25 million years ago. Clearly, there must have been some misdating here. Though a dinotherium bone it could have been, an artist in the Miocene, long before men were around, it could not.
The most likely explanation, that the artwork was of a rhinoceros and was by early man, would require the find to have been in recent strata. The alternative would be that the artwork was of a horned dinosaur and the relic was from the late Cretaceous rather than the Miocene. The bone cannot then have been that of a dinotherium. If the latter explanation prevailed, who could have been the artist in the age of dinosaurs other than our anthroposaur?
A Peruvian doctor, Steiger writes, has the unusual hobby of collecting stones—not fossils, but rocks bearing engraved pictures. The rocks, which were apparently discovered after a cave in, are claimed by the doctor to be around 60 million years old. But, since he would not reveal their source, it is a moot point whether the engraved markings are the same age.
If they are then they are remarkable—they offer a detailed record of a strange race of beings of an alien culture doing things which, in some cases, we have only recently undertaken in our supposedly advanced technological society. The engravings depict man like beings along with creatures looking like dinosaurs including pterodactyls. The latter are apparently being ridden through the air by the man like beings! The humanoid creatures seemed to have pointed tongues and noses beginning in their foreheads. They also seem not to have an opposed thumb but it is not clear whether this is a stylistic convention.
The interpretation of one scientist is that some of the pictures show, in step by step illustrations, ancient operations including transplants of the heart and other organs, a Caesarean section and brain surgery. There were:
Operating tables… surgical knives, local and general anaesthetics, sutures and more… The figures were crudely drawn but the organs were masterpieces.
Unfortunately some investigators claim the engravings are forgeries. But examination of the stones did not show any evidence of power drilling even under 60 times magnification. Alternatively the scenes depicted may have been carved by native peoples in more recent times and show forms of human sacrifice including disemboweling rather than sophisticated operations.
If they do prove to be genuine, or even if there is a core of genuine specimens which the poverty stricken local natives have found profitable to imitate, then they might offer evidence of an advancing, man like but reptilian civilization at the same time as the last of the dinosaurs.
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