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Why are there incidents of archaeological fraud?
In 2005, a team of American and British experts came to the British Museum and the Smithsonian Museum. They took out the famous "Mayan crystal skull" and tested it with electron microscope and X-ray technology.

The results show that there are many tiny rotating scratches on the crystal skull, which are caused by a kind of jewelry processing equipment called "rotating wheel". Therefore, the crystal skull is the work of modern jewelers, a typical archaeological fraud.

In the 1960s and 1970s before Fujimura's forgery, Japan only discovered the late Paleolithic period about 30,000 years ago, and whether there were early and middle Paleolithic periods. As nothing was found, Japanese archaeologists could only make a verbal guess.

At that time, Japanese archaeologists divided the Paleolithic Age into late (654.38+0 to 30,000 years ago), middle (30,000 to 654.38+0.3 million years ago) and early (654.38+0.3 million years ago).

Because they know that the whole of Japan is acidic, it is difficult for human and animal bones to be preserved for a long time and become fossils. Moreover, Japanese paleolithic archaeology started late, and its knowledge, experience and excavation technology are not mature enough. Because there are no fossils, their judgment on stone tools is mainly based on the age of strata, not on the study of stone tools themselves.

This is a famous forgery of ancient human fossils in the 20th century. 19 12 years, amateur archaeologist Charles Dawson and geologist arthur smith of the Natural History Museum joined hands to find evidence of what they called "the missing link in evolution between apes and humans". At the same time, they found a thick human skull and a frontal bone with two teeth in Pilton, England, as well as some animal fossils and primitive stone tools. Chas and Arthur both thought that the skull came from the same individual, so they suggested that it was a fossil of early ancient humans and claimed that they had found evidence of evolution between apes and humans. However, with the progress of the times and the development of science, during the 40 years since the discovery of the Pilton fossil, more and more ancient human fossils have been unearthed, the most famous of which is the Australopithecus pekinensis in China. Among these discovered ape-man fossils. It is found that in all hominid fossils, the head is the skull of an ape and the mandible is the human mandible. Contrary to Pierre Dunhua Si Tong. It was not until June1953165438+10 that Pierre Dunhua Stone was proved to be a prank.

It didn't work out anyway. It's really hard to tell whether this archaeological fraud is true or false, and it's unknown to us. Since it is a fraud, there must be all kinds of doubts and contradictions that cannot be justified. Of course, all archaeological fraud is inseparable from the word "interest"!