The Saucer Hovers posted:

that deck got me laid once

Good Soldier Svejk posted:

Must've been one hell of a draw

Too Many Birds posted:

someone tarot card read if i'm gonna get laid

Barry Foster posted:

Mods pls change my name to Latino Hoax Elemental tia

inchworm posted:

especially if water/decay fucks it up like the montauk monster or something

i wonder if they ground up the mummies and mixed it with water they'd turn into the blob

Too Many Birds posted:

someone tarot card read if i'm gonna get laid

Rickshaw posted:

what makes you think this thing was found in a cave in peru

The Saucer Hovers posted:

really really want to do that liquified mummy medicine

neutral milf hotel posted:

you're in luck!

blatman posted:

u are

i didnt consult the deck tho, i read the tea leaves

Turpitude posted:

That is what has been said for the last 6 years, and supposedly confirmed by sources cited in the presentation which includes at least 3 universities. If the location the mummies were from was falsified then someone probably wrote about that in the last 6 years, but perhaps my google fu is weak?

Even the pdf i shared which has been used as a source to debunk the mummies goes along with the dating and supposed location of discovery

quote:

Some of the finds were first presented to the Institute by “Luis Quispe”, aka Paul R.
These included mummified stuff of a small “body”, 25 cm long, and a “gigantic hand” consisting of three fingers with six phalanges and metallic implants.
More finds were later brought to the attention of the study group by “Mario”, the leader of the huaqueros (tomb raiders of Peru) at the place of discovery.

quote:

The Ica stones are a collection of andesite stones from the Ica Province in Peru, known for their engraved motifs. Largely regarded to be modern hoaxes,[1][2][3] the stones in some cases utilize art styles from various pre-Columbian Peruvian civilizations and often depict anachronistic scenes or objects, including dinosaurs and advanced technology.

Stones with engraved artwork were first reported in Peru in the middle fifteenth century during the Spanish conquest. Subsequent archaeological finds have been next to non-existent, though huaqueros (grave robbers) at some point prior to the 1960s began selling stones similar to the Ica stones.


The most widely known collection of stones, numbering around 20,000 individual objects, belonged to the physician Javier Cabrera Darquea. Cabrera purchased the majority of his stones from the farmer Basilo Uschuya and believed them to represent evidence of an ancient interstellar civilization that once existed in Peru for hundreds of millions of years.[4] Uschuya later admitted to having forged the stones he sold to Cabrera[1]

quote:

According to Dennis Swift, a young-Earth creationist and major proponent of the figures' authenticity, Julsrud stumbled upon the figures while riding his horse and hired a local farmer to dig up the remaining figures, paying him for each figure he brought back. Eventually, the farmer and his assistants brought him over 32,000 figures which included representations of everything from the supposed dinosaurs to peoples from all over the world including Egyptians, Sumerians, and "bearded Caucasians".[1]

Archaeologist Charles C. Di Peso was working for the Amerind Foundation, an anthropological organization dedicated to preserving Native American culture. Di Peso examined the figures and determined that they were not authentic, and had instead been produced by local modern-day farmers.[4][5]

... their surfaces displayed no signs of age; no dirt was packed into their crevices; and though some figurines were broken, no pieces were missing and no broken surfaces were worn. Furthermore, the excavation’s stratigraphy clearly showed that the artifacts were placed in a recently dug hole filled with a mixture of the surrounding archaeological layers. DiPeso also learned that a local family had been making and selling these figurines to Julsrud for a peso apiece since 1944, presumably inspired by films shown at Acámbaro’s cinema, locally available comic books and newspapers, and accessible day trips to Mexico City’s Museo Nacional.[6]

quote:

Gangs of looters, known as huaqueros, are ransacking Peru's heritage to illegally sell artefacts to collectors and tourists.

"They come at night to explore the ruins and dig the holes," said Cuba Cruz de Metro, 58, a shopkeeper in the farming village of Galindo. "They don't know the history, they're just looking for bodies and for tombs. They're just looking for things to sell."

The Saucer Hovers posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q28BH0ymGPI

Rickshaw posted:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/mar/21/looters-latin-america-archaeological-heritage

quote:

The Strange Business of Memory:
Relic Forgery in Latin America
Paul Gillingham

This essay surveys assorted cases of relic forgery from colonial and modern Latin America, to argue that such forgeries are a) particularly widespread in
the region; b) part of a quite formalized sector of the region’s informal economies; and c) commodities produced by a wide range of elite and non-elite
actors.

The Saucer Hovers posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q28BH0ymGPI

The Saucer Hovers posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q28BH0ymGPI

Fitzy Fitz posted:

Rickshaw posted:

From the paper you cite:

Turpitude posted:

it shouldn't be difficult to disprove this poo poo but even the paper I cite does a poor job, and I am having a hard time finding anything better. the flipped-llama-or-alpaca-skull theory is a really good one so why is it written so poorly and why are they not analyzing the areas of the skull that they posit would have been most clearly hosed with in creating this forgery? just super frustrating all around

Petey posted:

there are 309 new posts today, were any of them good

Petey posted:

there were 309 new posts today, were any of them good

The Saucer Hovers posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q28BH0ymGPI

Petey posted:

there were 309 new posts today, were any of them good

Coldrice posted:

Fitzy Fitz posted: