Stones from Ica
The Ica Stones are a collection of engraved andesite stones that are said to have been found in a cave near the Peruvian city of Ica from 1961 onwards. They depict dinosaurs and advanced technology , among other things .
discovery
The stones became known through the Peruvian doctor Javier Cabrera, who received a stone for his birthday in 1961. The creature depicted on the stone was identified by Cabrera as an extinct fish that is believed to have lived millions of years ago.
His discovery piqued the interest of Carlos and Pablo Soldi, two less successful collectors of artifacts . However, they were able to sell 341 stones similar to Cabrera.
A short time later, Cabrera found another supplier, a farmer named Basilio Uschuya. With these and a few other sources, Cabrera was able to build up a collection of around 15,000 engraved stones in 35 years.
description
A variety of scenes are depicted on the stones, some of which are the size of a fist and some up to 80 cm in diameter:
- Dinosaurs (such as attacking or helping people)
- advanced technology ( telescopes , aircraft )
- advanced medical interventions ( heart or brain operations , abortions )
- Maps ( North America and South America as separate and two additional continents )
- Pornography (homoerotic sex)
Even if some scenes can be interpreted in several ways, they definitely show that the creators had knowledge of objects and actions that, taken as a whole, are anachronistic .
authenticity
The stones were reportedly found in river beds and caves that were washed out. Since they contain no organic material, radiocarbon dating cannot be used. It is not known whether any other method of radiometric dating was used.
In 1966, scientists from the National Technical University of Peru analyzed the surface oxide layer of the engravings and concluded that the layer that covered the engravings must be over 10,000 years old. However, this layer can also be forged. Also, since the location is unknown, it is impossible to determine the age of the stones based on exposed strata .
The archaeologist Neil Steede examined some of the Ica stones for the film The Mysterious Origins of Man ( The mysterious origins of man ), who was to show that humanity existed much longer than assumed by science. Steede claims to have discovered patina on the stones , but not on the engravings. He concludes that the engravings on the specimens he has examined must be much younger than the stones.
In 1998, after four years of analysis, the Spanish researcher Vicente Paris announced that the stones were fraudulent . As clues, he referred to microphotographs of the stones, which showed traces of modern paint and polishing agents, as well as the good preservation of the flat engravings: stones with old engravings would be expected to wear significantly more.
In 2010 the mystery researcher and writer Lars A. Fischinger reported that in autumn 2002 Maria del Carmen Olazar Benguria and Feliy Arenas Mariscal as well as experts from the "Universidad Autonoma de Madrid" from Spain were looking for "real" stones in the desert floor in Ocucaje. They found what they were looking for on the Cerro Blanco mountain at a depth of two meters and had the findings examined on October 15, 2002 at the university. According to the thermoluminescence dating carried out by the “Universidad Autonoma de Madrid”, the carbonate adherence of the new stones was 99,240 to 61,196 years old (5000 to 8000 years deviation factor).
Uschuya Basilio
In the 1977 broadcast BBC documentation Pathway to Gods ( pathway to the gods ), shows how the indigeno Basilio Uschuya by a dentist drill produces an "authentic" stone. Uschuya also claims that he gives the stones a patina by baking them in cow dung .
Another BBC documentary aired in 1996 that questioned the authenticity of the stones. Uschuya was then arrested by the Peruvian authorities for illegally selling archaeological finds. He confirmed in court that the stones were forgeries that he and his wife had made. He was not punished and continued to sell similar stones to tourists.
He also confirmed that he created fake stones in an interview with Erich von Däniken , but revoked this again in an interview with a German journalist.
In 2000 he showed the alleged location to the Spanish journalist JJ Benitez. In a TV show shown in Spain, Benitez finds nine new stones.
Points of view
Creationism
Some stones show representations of dinosaur-like creatures, partly together with humans. However, since the appearance of dinosaurs was only reconstructed from fossils in modern times , older cultures could not have had any knowledge of the appearance. Some creationists therefore see this as proof of the coexistence of dinosaurs and humans, and therefore also as an argument against the correctness of the theory of evolution .
Pre-astronautics
Javier Cabrera interprets the stones as evidence of the presence on earth of an extraterrestrial race that he called the Gliptolithic Men , who, in his opinion, came to this planet a long time ago, coexisted with the dinosaurs and genetically designed modern humans. Then they went to another planet before disaster struck. For some followers of pre-astronautics, this view and the images on the stones, which show a sometimes highly technological society, are evidence of prehistoric extraterrestrial contacts.
gallery
Web links
- Images of the Ica stones
- videos and documents of the Ica stones
- Sara Ross: The Ica Stones and Dr. Javier Cabrera , in: PARA Web Bibliography B-03 (2007)
- Critical article on skeptic's dictionary
Individual evidence
- ↑ Pictures of Ica stones
- ↑ Teleskop-Stein ( Memento of the original from March 18, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Video
- ↑ English blog with images that have been deleted in the meantime ( memento of the original from May 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Lars A. Fischinger: Forbidden History . Munich: ANSATA Verlag 2010, ISBN 978-3778774366
- ↑ Olazar Benguria, Maria del Carmen & Mariscal, Felix Arenas: La Verdad Sobre las Piedras de Ica . Barcelona: Castellano Verlag 2007, ISBN 9788478085668
- ↑ Erich von Däniken: Evidence . Düsseldorf: ECON Verlag 1977, ISBN 34301-1982-0
