Archaeological Anomalies: Small Artifacts : Bone, Stone, Metal Artifacts, Footprints, High Technology

SMALL ARTIFACTS is one of 22 volumes in the Catalog of Anomalies published by The Sourcebook Project. The catalog provides an objective, unsensationalized compilation of anomalous phenomena, difficult to explain observations, and curiosities of nature in the fields of astronomy, biology, archeology, geophysics, and geology. This volume presents small (i.e. portable) archeological artifacts considered to be irregular, abnormal, out-of-place, or otherwise "paradigm-changing" with respect to prevailing views. Some of the topics covered include Pre-Clovis Bone Tools in the New World * Evidence of Ancient Skull Surgery (Trepanation) * Viking Cloth in the High North American Arctic * Similarity of Chinese and Aztec Plumagery * Ancient Human Handprints * Giant Bronze-Age Waste Deposits * Enigmatic Metallic Artifacts Found in Ancient Rocks * Pottery Artifacts Anomalous in Location or Age * Large Caches of Stone Implements * Pigmy Flints and other Microliths * Ancient Music Instruments * Claims of Ancient Knowledge of Electricity * and Ancient Calculating Devices. SMALL ARTIFACTS is thoroughly illustrated with intriguing accounts collected from references including the American Antiquarian, American Antiquity, Kadath, Nature, New Scientist, Pursuit, Science, and Scientific American to name a few. Reference citations are indexed three ways, by First Author, Source, and Subject. The indexes are cross-referenced to each entry in the book to aid the reader in locating original source materials and conducting independent research.