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bat400
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|  Posted 12-11-2011 at 06:17
An astonishing misleading headline for a story about how fossil finds were interpreted by folklore -"We found a lot of interesting relics that had been associated with lotus by local residents. The ripple marks, mud cracks and duck-billed dinosaur tracks had created a picture of a lotus field, and lead to the folklore of 'booming golden lotus from the earth,'" he said.
Chen Yu, another researcher with the project as well as an archaeologist with the Capital Museum in Beijing, said the region had been a transport hub for China and other Asian countries, where Buddhism thrived.
"The religion has a special worship towards lotus, which symbolizes peace and quiet. This is another reason for the residents to name the place for the flower, seeking blessing from the Buddha," Chen said.
Qijiang County was located in what, historically, was a frontier area, and had endured wars at that time. The Lotus Mountain Fortress had been a safe hiding place since the Han Dynasty (202 BC- 220 AD), according to the epigraphy of various dynasties, she said.
Adrienne Mayor, the third researcher with the project as well as a historian of ancient science and a classical folklorist with Stanford University in the United States, said the case of the Lotus Mountain Fortress proves that dinosaur tracks had impacted ancient Chinese folklore, which could provide clues for seeking other tracks.
The fortress' 700 years of history is a rarity in the world, and reflects China's traditional philosophy of the relationship between humans and nature, she said.
Thanks to coldrum for the story: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2011-10/16/c_131194282_2.htm
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sem
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| Posted 14-11-2011 at 23:16
Hi Bat
You might be interested in further evidence for human-dinosaur coexistance as written about by Alice Beck Kehoe in her book Controversies in Archaeology. The following is a precis of pp74/75.
As his notorious son Jeffrey Dahmer murdered half a dozen men, industrial chemist Lionel Dahmer worked on an award-winning paper proving humans and dinosaurs coexisted around 30,000yrs ago. The award came from fundamentalist Christians rejecting any view at odds with a literal reading of Genesis. LD and friends went to Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh and asked the curator of paleontologyfor a few chips of a dinosaur fossil for an experiment. These were given and then sent to a radiocarbon dating. The lab wrote back offering to return the sample and (not cheap I assume)fee because the chips did not contain collagen (the protein that contains the carbon) and the analysis would be affected by shellac contaminating the sample. The submitters wrote back saying go ahead.
The lab report arrived and gave estimates of 23,760-25,760 +/- 270yrs. For this triumph, Dahmer won the Creation Research award!!!
Marvellous eh?!?
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| Posted 16-11-2011 at 01:51
Hmm... Perhaps we could all win prizes for having tests conducted that can't possibly produce any meaningful results....
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