500 million year old hammer found.

[Monk (in hiding)]

(AA) In June 1936, Max Hahn and his wife Emma were on a walk beside a waterfall near to London, Texas, when they noticed a rock with wood protruding from its core. They decided to take the oddity home and later cracked it open with a hammer and a chisel. What they found within shocked the archaeological and scientific community. Embedded in the rock was what appeared to be some type of ancient man made hammer.

A team of archaeologists analyzed and dated it. The rock encasing the hammer was dated to more than 400 million years old. The hammer itself turned out to be more than 500 million years old. Additionally, a section of the wooden handle had begun the metamorphosis into coal.  The hammer’s head, made of more than 96% iron, is far more pure than anything nature could have achieved without assistance from relatively modern smelting methods......MORE

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[Rogue]

This sounded pretty spectacular, BUT it may not be all it appears to be..

http://paleo.cc/paluxy/hammer.htm

[Monk (in hiding)]

This sounded pretty spectacular, BUT it may not be all it appears to be..

paleo.cc/paluxy/hammer.htm

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apparentlyapparel.com/news/strange-artifacts-reveal-history-of-human-origin-is-wrong

[Monk (in hiding)]

Looks like more BS that will never be solved.

[Agartha]

Yeah, there's no proof that the hammer did come from that creek.......and even if it did,  minerals dissolved from ancient strata can harden around a recent object, making it look impressive to someone unfamiliar with geological processes.

I guess Mr Baugh, who now owns the hammer, should lend it to archaelogists to have it analyzed........but he has refused several times.

 

[Monk (in hiding)]

Funny, the web site had a picture of the hammer that was copy right protected. I did a view source code and picked out the pic. It's from the weird paleo.cc/paluxy/hammer.htm website. Strange?

[Agartha]

LOL VM.......why do you think the paleo site is weird??

[Monk (in hiding)]

Skewed by religious dogma. Just tell us how old the dang thing is.

[Agartha]

Skewed by religious dogma. Just tell us how old the dang thing is.

They can't tell us cause the owner refuses to have it analyzed.

[Rockhopper]

They can't tell us cause the owner refuses to have it analyzed.

That is usually the case! Doing so would blow their story. The stone surrounding the hammer (which is just a common spalling hammer BTW), is a concretion. The wood of the handle would not have survived in that condition for very long. We need to know where it was found, what the surrounding strata was and if there was anything else in the stone. Too many things wrong with the claim!

Tim.

[Monk (in hiding)]

Agreed.

[Lenzabi]

It is discussed on this website as well

http://www.badarchaeology.com/?page_id=315

Baugh is one of those creationists types

[Monk (in hiding)]

It is discussed on this website as well

badarchaeology.com/?page_id=315

Baugh is one of those creationists types

I hate those labels, either one is a creationist or an evolutionist.  How about we just throw out the nonsense of 'labeling' and just date the dang thing.

Well, would any archaeologist run it through required testing and come up with a pre-flood date. If they did, it would not be published correct?

[Lenzabi]

Well, Baugh is milking it for all he can. Letting it get carbon dated would potentially ruin his star exhibit.

[X]

petrification can make wood last forever....yeah?

[Rockhopper]

Doesn't look petrified to me Aqua/Mr. W. More like half rotten hickory! It looks just as I said, a spalling hammer, used to drive spikes on railroads. Hardly 500 million years old!

Tim.

[Monk (in hiding)]

1800's

[Rockhopper]

Yup!

Tim.

[Marilyn7]

It looks like it is from a later period . I agree with you Tim ...

[Rockhopper]

Well, would any archaeologist run it through required testing and come up with a pre-flood date. If they did, it would not be published correct?

Yep. it would be published. That's how the Archaeologists work. It could be pre-flood but which particular flood are you talking about?

Tim.

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