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The painter of this vase lived in Corinth, a Greek trade hub, and painted the picture of the Monster sometime near 550 B.C.
A. Mayor has recently interpreted the head of the "dragon" as an image inspired by the sight of a fossil skull emerging from a cliff (see The First Fossil Hunters, Princeton, 2000, pages 157-165).
Art scholars have generally interpreted the monster (yellow face at right) as a sea serpent emerging from a black cave, but Mayor and a group of paleontologists think the creature might actually be the fossil skull of an extinct giraffe eroding out of a hillside. Mayor's analysis of the vase painting appears in the February OXFORD JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGY.
Known collectively as the Ica Stones (they are found in Ica, Peru), these rocks, varying in size from that of a baseball to twice that of a basketball, are hand-etched with pictures of primitive fish, dinosaurs and Indians using what appear to be tools of advanced technology.
Originally posted by BlackJackal
Ok so the monster of Troy was a dead Giraffe?? Why would hercules need to kill a dead Giraffee? I don't think I need to comment on that.
The skull of one of the prehistoric mammals may have been the model for the vase painting and the legend that it illustrates.
Originally posted by BlackJackal
Just a guess by archeologist Mayor that cannot be proven. And could you provide a link to the proof against the ICA stones.
Actually, if you take a long look at these things, you'll start to recognize them as frauds.
You see, the first ones depicted dinosaurs as we thought they looked in the 1920's. There's no sophisitcated treatments and corrected stances there, and the details of the dinos are quite wrong.
Later on, you'll see that they suddenly start taking on a more modern appearance and the more recent ones to turn up look (gee whiz) a lot like the ones on the Discovery Channel and in museums.
This is a hallmark of a fraud.
If they were for real, the stones would have given us information that we didn't know (correct proportions of dinos, correct stances) and which we would have only later found to be correct.
Originally posted by BlackJackal
Ok so the monster of Troy was a dead Giraffe?? Why would hercules need to kill a dead Giraffee? I don't think I need to comment on that.
Originally posted by glee
Hercules wouldn't need to kill a dead Giraffe. If someone from Homer's time saw a fossil skull in a cliff, they wouldn't know it was a giraffe. So they would be free to imagine any sort of creature they wanted.
Originally posted by amantine
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Actually, if you take a long look at these things, you'll start to recognize them as frauds.
You see, the first ones depicted dinosaurs as we thought they looked in the 1920's. There's no sophisitcated treatments and corrected stances there, and the details of the dinos are quite wrong.
Later on, you'll see that they suddenly start taking on a more modern appearance and the more recent ones to turn up look (gee whiz) a lot like the ones on the Discovery Channel and in museums.
This is a hallmark of a fraud.
If they were for real, the stones would have given us information that we didn't know (correct proportions of dinos, correct stances) and which we would have only later found to be correct.
Alright according to the logic that Byrd used the above image of a horse should be a fraud because it does not represent how a real horse looks or stands. Yet it is a real artifact made by the Han Dynasty.
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As for them changing overtime Byrd is the only one I have ever heard say that.
BTW as for the additions I should be able to complete them by tonight or tommorrow.