Impossible obsidian - unique products from Mexico City

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

Many researchers note the presence in Mesoamerica of small ancient artifacts, which by their parameters do not at all fit into the level of technology possessed by the civilizations known to us that lived on these lands.

Many researchers note the presence in Mesoamerica of small ancient artifacts, which by their parameters do not at all fit into the level of technology possessed by the civilizations known to us that lived on these lands.

So, in the exposition of the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City, you can see a unique disc made of obsidian, ten centimeters in diameter and very similar in shape to the usual CDs. What is the uniqueness of this exhibit?

In order to avoid all sorts of misinterpretations and unfounded chatter on the part of "fighters against pseudoscience" and their accomplices, let us turn to the opinion of the Russian physicist A. Sklyarov (a graduate of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, that is, a specialist with a technical education) regarding the manufacturing technologies of this artifact.

This is what he writes about him in his book The Old Gods. Who are they?”:“Obsidian is volcanic glass. Very handy material for easy processing due to its fragility. Even with a small impact, obsidian splits so that shards with very sharp edges are formed. They easily cut soft materials - for example, leather, meat, some types of vegetation. If carefully, you can cut materials and harder - such as wood. And with sufficient dexterity, not only knives can be made from obsidian, but also thinner tools that can serve as a thin blade, awl, or even a coarse needle.

However, glass is glass. It pricks easily. But it pricks so that even surfaces - such as on a disc - are not formed! It is simply physically impossible to obtain such a plane by simply splitting a piece of obsidian. This requires completely different processing technologies: first, obsidian must be sawed or cut. And then also polish - after all, the surface of the disc is polished! And this is where very serious problems begin for the picture of the past that historians have painted for Mesoamerica.

The point is that obsidian is easy to work with when a simple shearing of the material is used. But cutting or sawing it is a very difficult task. The hardness of obsidian at 5-6 on the Mohs scale is very, very high. For example, steel knives and some files that are familiar to us have such hardness."

In the modern process of processing obsidian products, hard abrasive discs are used, which rotate at high speed with special equipment, or something like an electric drill. If you take an abrasive disc of sufficient size and rigidly fix the tool rotating it, you can make the same flat plane as on the "CD" from the museum.

But after all, according to the official version of history, the Indians of ancient civilizations could not have such technological equipment that they have now, and they simply could not make such a disc. However, it is an official exhibit that modern archeology and history does not position as a "fake".

In the same museum there is another interesting exhibit dating back to the same era - this is an amazing bowl in the shape of a monkey, also made of obsidian using fairly high technologies: “Its quality is just perfect! And the point is not even in the remarkably polished minute details of the monkey's figure outside the vessel, but in the impeccable execution of the vessel itself.

In order to select the material from the inside, you need a very solid tool. In this case, one must manage not to split the very fragile obsidian. And the main thing: it was necessary to somehow make the vessel in such a way that not the slightest deviations from the regular round shape of both the rim of the vessel and any visible cross-section of the internal cavity were noticeable!

The creator of the obsidian monkey, it seems, did not experience any difficulties in creating his masterpiece (you cannot name it otherwise). At least, this is precisely the assumption that other products made from this material suggest. For example, strange objects that very much resemble … bobbins (spools of thread) in modern sewing machines. Even in size they are practically the same."

It is characteristic that in modern technologies bobbins for sewing machines are stamped from plastic, and in the last century they were made of metal. According to A. Sklyarov, for the manufacture of such bobbins from obsidian, at least a lathe is needed, because in order for the obsidian not to be chipped off, but cut off, a high rotation speed of the workpiece is needed. But after all, as the official version of history tells us, the ancient Indians could not have lathes.

So that - again, the "patch" came out, however, completely imperceptible for those who are not used to thinking with their own brains. Of course, everything can be blamed on the incompetence of professional historians and archaeologists in the technological field and their lack of technical education. But is it really just a matter of banal laziness and incompetence? Or maybe this is because of a clear reluctance to notice any artifacts that go beyond the official version of the story?

Considering that many such artifacts have accumulated on various continents, can the official version of human history be considered not falsified?