The article is:

Proofs That We Are Not the 1st Civilization
on This Planet and Presumably Not the Last
AlienStarNet, Octobrer 5, 2022
[alienstar.net]
[web.archive.org]

This article is a rehash of various Ooparts that have
been repeatedly published of vanished civilizations.

They are:

1. Klerksdorp “unique rocks.”

These are semispherical concretions of natural origin.

Go look at:

Klerksdorp sphere - Wikipedia
[en.wikipedia.org]

Heinrich, P.V., 2007, South African concretions of controversy:
South African Lapidary Magazine. vol. 39, no. 1, pp. 7-11.
[www.researchgate.net]

Heinrich, P.V., 2008, The Mysterious "Spheres" of Ottosdal,
South Africa. National Center for Science Education Reports,
v. 28, no. 1, pp. 28-33.[1]
[www.researchgate.net]

2. Dorchester vase (pot)

OOPArt ? Le vase de Dorchester
[irna.fr]

Metallic vase from Dorchester, Massachusetts
[www.badarchaeology.com]

3. “500 million year old footprint,” (Meister footprint, Utah)

This a feature generated by the natural weathering of Wheeler Shale,
Antelope Springs, House Range, Millard County, Utah. Go see:

Conrad, E.C., 1981. Tripping over a trilobite: a study of the Meister
tracks. Creation/Evolution, 2(4), pp.30-33.
[ncse.ngo]

Kuban, G.J., 2011. "The "Meister Print" An Alleged Human
Sandal Print from Utah". TalkOrigins Archive.
Retrieved 20 October 2022.
[www.talkorigins.org]
[paleo.cc]

Strahler, Arthur N. 1987. Science and Earth History.
Prometheus Books. pp. 459-461. ISBN 1-57392-717-1

4.” 300 million year old” John Reid footprint, Nevada

This is concretionary banding ("liesegang rings") in slab
of sedimentary rock. Go see:

Kuban, G.J., 2018. "Nevada Shoe Print" TalkOrigins.
Retrieved 20 October 2022.
[www.paleo.cc]
[web.archive.org]

Fitzpatrick-Matthews, Keith J., 23, 2006, Fischer Canyon
(Nevada) footprint, Cult and Fringe Archaeology, Retrieved
20 October 2022.
[www.badarchaeology.com]-‘footprint’/
[web.archive.org]

5. moissanite grains found in Primorye’s partisan region.

Primorsky Krai, Russia, informally known as “Primorye,”
is a federal district of Russia on its eastern coast. A krai is a
federal district that is legally identical to an oblast. “Primorye”
is loosely translated as 'Maritime Territory'. “Partisan region”
presumably refers to the southern Primorye (Partizansky district)
in which “Partizansky“ translates as “Partisan.” It also might
refer to Partizansky (Partisan) Mountain Range.

Reliable primary sources for the nature, history, and geologic
context for this oopart could not be found. This unsourced
story is that it was alledgely found on an unspecified date,
during the construction of an unnamed forest road across and
unnamed hill in “...southern Primorye (Partizansky district).”
This block of material allegedly was dislodged from a small
structure, less than 1 meter in height, “...consisting of structural
parts of different sizes and shapes.” This fragment was
supposively collected by a geophysicist, Valery
Pavlovich Yurkovets, who had it analyzed ten years later
at an unspecified date and found it to be made of moissanite
a diamond simulant made of silicon carbide. The current
location of this speciment is unknown.

Given the unsource, unreviewed, and fringe nature of the
above web pages, a serious evaluation and verification of
this story not possible. Lacking careful supporting research
of the artifact and reliable documentation about the context
of how and where it was found, this object is no more than
a curiosity at best and not a reliable out-of-place artifact.

The unsourced web pages are:

Artifacts of Siberia and the Urals. Abnormal artifacts
of Siberia. Video about elongated skulls in Omsk
Materials of Rouen. News \\ Reviews, hklsCom,
[hkls.ru]

Ancient artifacts of southern Siberia. Mysterious
Siberian Kigilyakhs - Artifacts of the Arctic Civilization?
Artifacts of the Urals and Siberia
[technerium.ru]

6. iron pot “thought to be more than 300 million years old,”
that was discovered in Oklahoma in 1912

This is anecdotal evidence that relies primarily on the text of a
1912 letter by Frank Kennard that lacks the needed collaborating
evidence. It relies solely on the expertise, veracity, and memories
of the individuals involved. As Kuban (2006) states;

“However, without careful forensic work of this nature, and
lacking reliable in-situ documentation, such objects remain
curiosities at best, and not reliable out-of-place artifacts.”

As noted by Isaac (2005), the pot looks like an eighteenth
century iron pot that might have easily been dropped in a
coal mine or workings. Buried in coal, it could have
readily reacted with coal to either form a concretion or had
coal recompressed around it to form what appeared to
be a virgin lump coal. When broken the iron pot would have
fallen out of it as described in the text of the letter

Kuban, G.J., 2006. "Alleged Iron Pot in Coal"
The Paluxy Dinosaur/"Man Track" Controversy web site.
Controversy web site. Retrieved 20 October 2022
[www.paleo.cc]

Isaac, Marc. 2005. Claim CC131, Talkorigins Archive.
Retrieved 20 October 2022
[www.talkorigins.org]

7. “110 million years old” Glen Rose Texas handprint

A loose block of Cretaceous limestone that has often been
promoted as a human "hand print" by Carl Baugh and
other strict creationists. Lacks any reliable evidence for
either its source or geological context. Many Young Earth
creationists regard it to be a carving.

Kuban, G.J., 2011. "Alleged Human Hand Print in
Cretaceous Rock". The Paluxy Dinosaur/"Man Track"
Controversy web site. Retrieved 20 October 2022.
[paleo.cc]
[paleo.cc]
[paleo.cc]

8. “100 million-year-old” “petrified human finger” from
“Axel-Heiberg Island of the Canadian Arctic.”)

This is an elongate rock found in a Texas gravel pit
some ditance from Glen rose, Texas. It is claimed by
Carl Baugh to be a fossilized human finger.

Kuban, G.J., 2012. "An Alleged Cretaceous Finger"
The Paluxy Dinosaur/"Man Track" Controversy web site.
Controversy web site. Retrieved 20 October 2022
[paleo.cc]

Kuban, G.J., 1996. A Review of NBC's "The Mysterious
Origins of Man"” TalkOrigins Archive. Retrieved 20 October 2022
[www.talkorigins.org]
[paleo.cc]

Yours,

Paul H.

"The past is never dead. It's not even past."
William Faulkner, Act 1, Scene III, Requiem for a Nun (1951)



Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 10/20/2022 09:08PM by Paul H..