I heard the report on MPR radio science report. Don't recall names or
anything just they reported that the figurine was agreed to be Roman, they
didn't get into the context of where it was found only the period that it
was typical of which I don't remember. One can only imagine that ships did
on occassion come to this side of the world probably by accident most of the
times that it happened just any thing left would be so few and no telling
where.
>From: geoff carver <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: romans in mexico? news from germany
>Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 21:27:18 +0100
>
>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
>http://home.t-online.de/home/gcarver/
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