Crystal Skull articles

NoCamels

NoCamels

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I personally think people often don't give ancient peoples enough credit. There used to be a theory that Native Americans couldn't possibly have built the effigy mounds as they weren't "advanced enough". The researchers of the 1800s and early 1900s let their bigotry get in the way and were convinced that a theoretical extinct race of advanced people had built the mounds.

If some of the crystal skulls are real, maybe the ancients knew a better way of carving crystal than we do. I don't find it implausible that they spent hundreds of years doing it either- especially if it was a religious artifact or a symbol of power. There are many cathedrals and temples around the world that have been in use for thousands of years. Who knows? :)
 
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bflah91989

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It would be remarkable if it was constructed over such a long period of time. The creators would have had to be in touch with the original idea of the first carver or they would not appear as they do.
 
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adventure_al

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Anything I seem to look up on crystal skulls always seems to be long and verbose. Call me lazy but could anyone do my the massive favour of summing up briefly what a crystul skull is/does?
 
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adventure_al

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pity. My understanding after a quick look over wiki is that they are just faked artifacts loosely connected to ancient south america.

with stories of their 'powers' very recent, due to new-age beliefs.

bit disapointed tbh. someone tell me if im completely off the mark though?
 
WillKill4Food

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adventure_al said:
pity. My understanding after a quick look over wiki is that they are just faked artifacts loosely connected to ancient south america.

with stories of their 'powers' very recent, due to new-age beliefs.

bit disapointed tbh. someone tell me if im completely off the mark though?
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Nope. That's the truth and the gist of the article I posted a link to. Same with the fertility idol.
 
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indy93

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Perhilion said:
Yeah, most of them are fake, I think, but there are a few that could be genuine. I just don't think it's fair to disregard them all as fake just because most of them are fake. The Mitchell-Hedges skull is a paradox, because it couldn't have been made with modern tools (tests have shown no signs of carving or sanding or anything) but it also can't have been made in ancient times, at least as far as we know.
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Alot of them are fake but a few are real including 'E.T' and 'max' and a few others but i dont know their names. According to experts the paris skull, the british museum skull and the mitchell-hedges skull are fakes there is even a document showing that mitchell-hedges bought from an art dealer in london!!!
 
tupogirl

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LOL!

I've been fascinated by this as well for a few years. It must have been the 92 one but I had only heard of the one when I first started learning about them.

Now they are all over the place and people bring their skull to New Age conferences annually.
 
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China Jim

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AIA magazine Crystal Skull

I mentioned this in a post I wrote sometime ago and one of the posters said you can't trust anything published in the AIA I for one was a member of the AIA and I have never found there work wanting I am working on a post concerning the crystal skulls and once I get it done I will post it.
Quote: "History is the search for facts not truths if you want truths the philosophy classes are down the hall. 90% of all archeology is done in the library" para phrased by China JIm from a Lecture by Dr. Henry W. Jones Jr
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Goonie

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Legend of the Crystal Skulls

In case any of you missed the Crystal Skull article in the May/June 2008 issue of Archaeology magazine, here it is:
http://www.archaeology.org/0805/etc/indy.html

Legend of the Crystal Skulls
Volume 61 Number 3, May/June 2008
by Jane MacLaren Walsh

Along with superstars like Harrison Ford, Cate Blanchett, and Shia LaBeouf, the newest Indiana Jones movie promises to showcase one of the most enigmatic classes of artifacts known to archaeologists, crystal skulls that first surfaced in the 19th century and that specialists attributed to various "ancient Mesoamerican" cultures. In this article, Smithsonian anthropologist Jane MacLaren Walsh shares her own adventures analyzing the artifacts that inspired Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (in theaters May 22), and details her efforts tracking down a mysterious "obtainer of rare antiquities" who may have held the key to the origin of these exotic objects.

Sixteen years ago, a heavy package addressed to the nonexistent "Smithsonian Inst. Curator, MezoAmerican Museum, Washington, D.C." was delivered to the National Museum of American History. It was accompanied by an unsigned letter stating: "This Aztec crystal skull, purported to be part of the Porfirio Díaz collection, was purchased in Mexico in 1960.... I am offering it to the Smithsonian without consideration." Richard Ahlborn, then curator of the Hispanic-American collections, knew of my expertise in Mexican archaeology and called me to ask whether I knew anything about the object--an eerie, milky-white crystal skull considerably larger than a human head.

I told him I knew of a life-sized crystal skull on display at the British Museum, and had seen a smaller version the Smithsonian had once exhibited as a fake. After we spent a few minutes puzzling over the meaning and significance of this unusual artifact, he asked whether the department of anthropology would be interested in accepting it for the national collections. I said yes without hesitation. If the skull turned out to be a genuine pre-Columbian Mesoamerican artifact, such a rare object should definitely become part of the national collections...
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Full article and pictures:
http://www.archaeology.org/0805/etc/indy.html
 
Stoo

Stoo

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Last month, I saw the Boban skull at the British Museum and it is a very, nice piece of work. Even though the accompanying literature
debunks the thing as a fake, it's still fascinating enough to be on permanent display. I'd love to see the Mitchell-Hedges one up close
since it's the closest to a real skull and the only one with the jaw as a seperate piece.:dead:

Didn't the Leonard Nimoy series, "In Search Of", do a show on crystal skulls?
 
sandiegojones

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These are certainly cool looking, but not real. From what I know about Mesoamerican cultures they would not have carved these out of crystal. They certainly would have used limestone or jade. They also do not look like any existing carvings Mayan, Aztec or Toltec skulls or masks and they would not have had the tools needed to polish them.

It is easy to link them to these cultures though as skull carvings, masks, day of the dead and even the deformed heads were all part of their cultures.
 
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