From as much of it as I could read, this is a little blurb article,
dependant much more upon speculation than facts.  Also, what's the
newspaper?  The Berlin Staatserkundigegungener?  If they have supermarkets
in Germany, they may have those papers, as well.  A common trick is to
quote and distort form another publication, or make up a story entirely;
witness all the American Neandertals, fossilized alien space craft and
HO-scale Aztec cities in caves that were reported in the US Supermarket
"Press" as the discoveries of archaeologists from the University of
Dresden, Berlin, Prague, etc. during the Cold War.  The Other lives forever!

David Babson.




At 09:27 PM 2/12/00 +0100, you wrote:
>according to a newspaper report which has got some german archaeologists
>e-mailing theories back and forth, dated february 10 and reported from london
>(!?), an american anthropologist named Roman Hristov (anybody heard of
him? does
>he exist?) is studying a small black terracotta head which was found near
Mexico
>City in 1933, and subsequently disappeared before rediscovery by this Roman
>Hristov, and has since been dated to AD 200 -
>        anybody heard of this? also supposed to have been reported in New
>Scientist, so i'll check that out, but thought i'd get some scoop before this
>debate here gets out of hand (ever wonder just where eric von daniken was
coming
>from...? [ie not geographically, just... mind-set wise?]) -
>        all sounds very suspicious to me (1933, inexact provenience [although
>the layer is supposed to be correct], disappearance, etc.)
>        the article in question, for those of you who do read the stuff:
>
>LONDON, 10. Februar (rtr). Ein kleiner schwarzer Kopf aus Terrakotta könnte
>> die historische Wahrheit in Frage stellen, dass Christoph Kolumbus Amerika
>> entdeckt hat. Dem US-Anthropologen Roman Hristov zufolge waren es die
Römer,
>> die den Kopf mitbrachten und damit vor Kolumbus in der Neuen Welt waren.
Das
>> berichtet das britische Wissenschaftsmagazin New Scientist. Der
>> Terrakotta-Kopf, der 1933 in der Nähe von Mexiko-Stadt gefunden wurde, sei
>> Hristov zufolge ein antikes römisches Kunstwerk und der Beweis dafür, dass
>> es bereits vor den Überfahrten der Spanier Handelsbeziehungen zwischen der
>> Alten Welt und Amerika gegeben habe.
>> Der Kopf sei nach seinem Fund zunächst in einem mexikanischen Museum
>> verschwunden, bevor ihn der Anthropologe entdeckte, berichtete das Magazin.
>> Mit Hilfe einer Probe aus der Rückseite des Kopfes hätten Forscher des
>> Heidelberger Max-Planck-Instituts das Kunstwerk auf das Jahr 200 datiert.
>> Archäologen hätten zudem bestätigt, dass der Kopf in einer Erdschicht
>> gefunden worden sei, die ebenfalls auf diese Zeit hindeute. Fachleute
>> streiten jedoch noch über die Beweiskraft des Fundes.
>
>geoff carver
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