Comments on: Crystal skulls and the chronological superiority complex

By: South African Explorers Discover the Oldest Man-made Structure on Earth « Into All That

Sat, 20 Sep 2008 18:49:03 +0000

[...] That was enough to get me to add their book to my Amazon list, read the whole site, and even toss the question of the theory’s validity to the braintrust over at the Straight Dope message boards. Sure there are a couple of facts that seem far fetched at first glance – the estimate of the ruins’ age from 75,000 (or twice as old as cave paintings at Chauvet) to 250,000 years old, that include a network of sites connected by roads comparable in size to the Egyptian empire – but one has resist the natural impulses of the chronological superiority complex. [...]

By: Smashed

Smashed — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 05:54:51 +0000

Somehow i missed the point. Probably lost in translation Anyway … nice blog to visit.

cheers, Smashed.

By: Eric S.

Eric S. — Fri, 23 May 2008 12:57:28 +0000

Hmmmm. Fakes, huh? Let’s take 2 facts reported from world-mysteries.com as granted, with the understanding that I’ve put zero effort into actual, thesis-defending quality fact checking (i.e., I’m taking them at their word, even though I scoff at other ‘facts’ reported in the same article).

Exhibit A: The skulls showed up at auction in 1943 — so they may be as old as 36,000 years, or, if they went straight from the sculptor’s studio to the auction block, as young as 65.

Exhibit B: Researchers from Hewlett-Packard in “a leading facility for crystal research,” — that is to say, with state-of-the-art 1970′s technology at their disposal — “…believe that successfully crafting a shape as complex as the Mitchell-Hedges skull is impossible.”

Sure, there’s some ambiguity in world-mysteries.com’s report on the HP team’s findings (hopefully Archaeology’s article is a bit more straightforward), but the facts as reported imply that, worst case scenario, 1970′s technology was unable to reverse engineer an artifact from the 1940′s. I don’t know… this extraterrestrial angle is looking more and more promising.

By: Robin

Robin — Thu, 22 May 2008 20:29:22 +0000

Of course, it could all be a fake. Their was an article in Archeology a while ago that said that all the crystal skulls were fakes based on one master fake.

By: David

David — Thu, 22 May 2008 20:06:19 +0000

Wikipedia, the first stop of all top researchers, indicates that Meso-American provenance for any crystal skull has yet to be demonstrated. Mostly, they seemed to have been made in Germany, much like the Stradivarius we have at home. A shame, really, but not entirely unexpected. I find your basic thesis (the Chronological Superiority Complex: the belief that, as time has progressed, mankind has gotten better, stronger, and smarter) to be very interesting. One of the fallacies of popular understanding of evolutionary biology mirrors this point; that modern life represents the pinnacle of development over time. T-rex actually existed as a species far longer that Homo sapiens, and as such represents a much more successful species than us. If it weren't for that meteor in the Caribbean, there still might be saurians romping around the world. They might even have figured out how to reverse global warming.