The Ica Stones Controversy

The Ica stones are a accumulating of stones allegedly apparent in a cavern abreast Ica, Peru. These stones of assorted sizes accept been categorical with alarming scenes. The stones characterize open-heart surgery, academician transplants, cesarean sections, telescopes, age-old maps, aerial machines, abolished animals and men with dinosaurs. Some affirmation the Ica Stones are an age-old library larboard by a absent culture. Others say they are a hoax. These andesite stones alarm into catechism aloof about aggregate science has accomplished us about the agent of the animal race.


Dr. Javier Cabrera

The backward Peruvian doctor Javier Cabrera affected the stones afterwards he accustomed one as a allowance for his altogether in 1961. He accessible the Museo de Piedras Grabadas (Engraved Stones Museum) at the Plaza de Armas in Ica which displays his accumulating of some 15,000 stones. Cabrera's approach is that the stones characterize the aboriginal Peruvian ability as an exoteric chase that came to apple during the dinosaur’s actuality and again genetically engineered avant-garde man.

Cabrera claimed that a agriculturalist begin the stones in a cave. The agriculturalist was arrested for affairs the stones to tourists, but was afterwards appear on his affidavit that he had apish the stones. According to Cabrera, the agriculturalist was adverse 20 years in bastille if the stones were absolute so he afflicted his adventure to achieve his freedom.

Cabrera additionally claimed that the locals had unearthed about 50,000 stones and that they showed him a adit breadth there are addition 100,000.

Rocks cannot be carbon anachronous and no one has anytime apparent the cave, or the consistent strata, breadth the stones were found. A cardinal of experts appraisal the stones as actuality 1,500 and 12,000 years old. Cabrera placed them amid 60,000,000 BC and 13,000,000 BC, although the aberration amid their accident in anniversary aeon is not clarified. Others say that all of the stones accept been falsified.

Fake or Real?

Some of the stones accept been accurate to be fabricated by locals of the breadth to advertise to tourists. Since Cabrera's stones appear from a cavern which has never been identified, the stones can’t be carbon dated, which adds ascendancy to the achievability that the stones are fakes.

In 1998, afterwards four years of investigation, Spanish investigator Vicente Paris declared that the affirmation indicates the stones are a hoax. Among the affirmation presented were microphotographs of the stones assuming traces of avant-garde paints and abrasives. Added affirmation of artifice is the conciseness of the bank engravings; stones of abundant age should accept abundant abrasion of the surfaces. Perhaps the arch altercation in favor of the skeptics is that the stones belie aloof about aggregate we anticipate we apperceive about evolution.

Yet there is allegory and able affirmation in favor of the stones’ authenticity. Inca allegory speaks of a acculturation of giants that created the stones as an actual record. Inca belief of giants alongside the Bible’s adventure of a chase of giants alleged the Nephilim, whom may accept accustomed from addition planet.

Some engraved stones are said to accept been brought aback to Spain in the 16th century. Microscopic assay of several Ica Stones has provided absolute affirmation that they are not avant-garde forgeries.

There are far too abounding stones for a distinct farmer, or alike a accumulation of hoaxers, to accept carved. Not alone would it booty a ample accumulation of bodies and an astronomic bulk of time to carve the stones, but they would additionally charge to accept affectionate ability of abolished breed of fish, anachronistic anatomy, age-old maps and geography, astronomy, circuitous surgery, claret admixture and abounding added complicated topics.

Believers in the stones affirmation that change is a awry theory, and they point out that it’s aloof that - a theory, not fact. Besides, alone one distinct bean needs to be accurate to prove that an unknown, age-old acculturation did abide in the Ica arena of Peru.

Most scientists accept angry a dark eye to the Ica Stones, afraid to face actual controversy. Some of the stones accept been faked, yet affirmation credibility to the achievability that bags of the stones are authentic. Whether absolute or fraud, their assurance is important if further, avant-garde assay of the Ica Stones are to booty place. If anytime any of the Ica Stones are accurate to be authentic, they would be one of the best important archaeological discoveries of all time.