OOPArt (Out-of-place Artefacts)
By missak
@missak (3311)
Spain
June 25, 2007 4:45pm CST
Have you ever heard of Out-of-place Artefacts? Do you know some of them? What do you think of that? OOPArt is a term coined by American zoologist Ivan T. Sanderson for a historical, archaeological or palaeontological object found in a very unusual, or even impossible, location.
Thoose are my preferred examples:
-The Baghdad Battery, dating from between 250 BC and 250 AD.
-The Baigong Pipes, unexplained pipes found in a cave in China.
-The Coso artifact, containing a spark plug from the 1920s.
-The Crystal skulls at Lubaantun, in Yucatan and in Belize.
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@joey_matthews (8354)
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28 Jun 07
Never.
(OOPART) I have heard of things like this though but I never heard that term. (which I'm pretty much sure of)
Very interesting discussion :)
~Joey
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@sunshinecup (7871)
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26 Jun 07
OMG! No never heard of these but you just gave me something new to research. The spark plug is just too wierd for me. I have heard of the Crystal skull one, that one is the neatest one to me.
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@sigma77 (5383)
• United States
25 Jun 07
I don't recall hearing anything specific about OOPArt. But it does sound interesting. I imagine trying to rationally explain these findings is a difficult as explaining how man arrived on the scene. I suppose that explanations are only limited by the imagination.
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