Tuesday, June 30, 2009

'The London Hammer' - is probably not as old as claimed

An alert reader made a comment on this story and pointed out this find might not be that old. Click here to read why. Then you decide.

Original Post...

Every once in a while archaeologists (and sometimes regular Joes) make some remarkable discoveries. Stunned, they are often unable to explain what it is they’ve found, how it came into existence, or ascertain its value. Here is one item that archaeologists believe should have never existed given the discerned age/period of it's creation.

In June 1936 (or 1934 according to some accounts), Max Hahn and his wife Emma were on a walk 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. Ironically, what they found within seemed to be an archaic hammer of sorts. A team of archaeologists checked it, and as it turns out, the rock encasing the hammer was dated back more than 400 million year; the hammer itself turned out to be more than 500 million years old. Additionally, a section of the handle has begun the transformation to coal. Creationists, of course, were all over this. The hammer’s head, made of more than 96% iron, is far more pure than anything nature could have achieved without an assist from modern technology.

photo and text via ZME Science

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wow, this sounds too good to be true! And it is: http://paleo.cc/paluxy/hammer.htm

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Anonymous said...

Time machine?

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