Crystal skull is faaaaaaake!!

I thought part of the mystery was that they couldn't have been made with the technology available at the time.

Nah, they could have made them, but they didn't. Really, outside of electronics, there's not much built today which couldn't have been made in the past. The biggest difference between now and then is the amount of time and effort it would take. What would take a very long time in ages past can now be done in seconds.

I see what you're saying. And I imagine the skulls could very well have been made recently. Yet part of the crystal skull mystique has always been that it would've been impossible for people to create the skulls at that point in history, at that level of technology.

This article is claiming that because the crystal skulls were fashioned by spinning wheel technology and use of Carborundum they can't be that old.

Now I'm no an expert when it comes to determining a crystals age but placing an artifact in time via the tools used to create it is simple relative dating. A valuable technique but not applicable when considering artifacts that have long been considered created by technology far too advanced for the time.

IOW saying that modern technology was involved is nothing new. It is part and parcel of the crystal skull legend.

I watched Indiana Jones last night. I know these are NOT fake.

This reminds me of the pyramids. I think people are pretty well satisfied nowadays that the Egyptians and others didn't need aliens to come along and help with those things.


Anyway, I don't know if the skulls are "fake" or not, but they always worked for me .

I've never even heard of these things...

I tried like Hell, ten years back, to tie them to the Knights Templar and the Baphomet rite, but couldn't (And I was able to make a connection between the Templars and the Oak Island Money Pit.)

Shame on you for not being the first one to post that we'll never really get to see the giant aliens.

Actually, it all depends upon the type of tools used to make the object. In the case of the skulls, what would the odds of them using carborundum and spinning tools be? There's many different kinds of synthetic diamonds, so the odds of them picking one that's commonly used in modern manufacturing methods is pretty slim. And why use spinning? Generally, folks back then would have polished something with a piece of leather which they would have filled with an abrasive (think of it as primitive sand paper). As for the spinning aspect, one would be able to tell what direction the tool spun by the marks. Back then, it would have been spun in one direction and then reversed, if it's spun in one direction the whole time, then it has to be a modern tool. Also, experts can tell what the specific tool used was, by the marks left on an object. (They wouldn't necessarily be able to you ahead of time that is was a Black and Decker drill owned by John Q. Forger, but they'd be able to say it was a Black and Decker drill, model number 123 made between 1950 and 1960.)

And while it's certainly possible that "modern technology" was involved with making things in the ancient world (it was recently discovered that a previously unknown type of concrete was used in making the pyramids), the odds of it matching anything used by folks in modern times so exactly as to confuse experts is up there with the Easter Bunny being real.