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Other researchers dismiss the inscription based on the numerous stylistic and grammatical errors that appear in the inscription.
In essence, the bun fight revolves around a difference of opinion.
I have also interviewed Prof. Frank Hibben, local historian and archaeologist from the University of New Mexico, who is convinced the inscription is ancient and thus authentic. He reports that he first saw the text in 1933. At the time it was covered with lichen and patination and was hardly visible. He was taken to the site by a guide who had seen it as a boy, back in the 1880s. Thus we have eye-witness evidence, going back over a hundred years, that the inscription existed. This alone is impressive, since it is rather preposterous to imagine some pranksters or forgers operating with a knowledge of paleo-Hebrew in the late 1800s, when this ancient alphabet was not even fully known to the scholars.
An Ancient Hebrew Inscription in New Mexico: Fact or Fraud?
However, high minded academia is not above deploying guilt by accusation.
His 1943 finds in Chinitna Bay were controversial.
In 1943, Hibben described a visit to Chinitna Bay on the west side of Cook Inlet in Alaska, where he reported finding Yuma-like projectile points like those found at the Clovis Site in New Mexico and a projectile point similar to those produced by the Folsom culture, who lived on the High Plains and adjacent regions 10,000 years ago.
In addition to the projectile points, he reported finding mammoth bones.
Thirty-five years later his finds became “questionable” and “probably invalid”.
A later investigation of the geology and geoarchaeology of Chinitna Bay using personal notes, photographs, and directions personally supply by Hibben successfully relocated the locations and strata from which the mammoth bones, Yuma-like projectile points, and projectile point “possibly affiliated with, Folsom” were reported.
They found that the strata in which Hibben reported finding Folsom- and Yuma-like projectile points and mammoths bones all accumulated during the Late Holocene in “a muddy, intertidal environment”.
The challenge is based upon the settled science of radiocarbon dating.
An extensive ancient archeologic site containing lithic artifacts and associated with mammoth remains was reported at Chinitna Bay, southern Alaska in 1943.
The presence of such a site adjacent to the continental shelf at the base of the rugged Aleutian Range suggested that humans may have inhabited the inner shelf environment during the late Pleistocene at times of lowered sea level.
Because of the site’s potential significance, an interdisciplinary research team relocated and reinvestigated the area in 1978, but failed to find evidence of prehistoric human habitation.
Geologic studies and radiocarbon dating indicate that the strata reported at the site are intertidal in origin, very late Holocene in age, and have undergone significant tectonic movement in the recent past.
These observations indicate that the previously published observations of the Chinitna Bay site are probably invalid.
Some commentators suggest there’s insufficient information.
Some suggest the Chinitna Bay site never existed.
But in 1978, when archaeologist James Dixon and others returned to the isolated location, they found Hibben’s claim to be false. “It is clear that the site never existed,” says Dixon, now at the University of Colorado in Boulder.
a) The “very late Holocene” result for Frank Hibben’s Chinitna Bay site is not entirely unreasonable because radiocarbon dating can be a fickle friend when it comes to dating sites and bones.
This bun fight is particularly capricious because radiocarbon dating has turned the extinction of the mammoth into a very curious movable feast.
The woolly mammoth … disappeared from its mainland range at the end of the Pleistocene 10,000 years ago… populations survived on St. Paul Island until 5,600 years ago and on Wrangel Island until 4,000 years ago.
It’s so curious it qualifies for it’s own post – stay tuned.
b) Challenging his ability to identify mammoth bones seems ill advised.
A later investigation of the geology and geoarchaeology of Chinitna Bay… found that the strata in which Hibben reported finding… mammoths bones… accumulated during the Late Holocene in “a muddy, intertidal environment”. As result, they concluded… the identification of the bones as being those of a mammoth is questionable.
The trials and tribulations of Frank Hibben reflect the widespread abandonment of the scientific method as academia slowly embraced settled science after 1945.
It’s likely the controversial works of Frank Hibben would be rejected [or very seriously mauled] by the modern mainstream gatekeepers overseeing the publication peer-review process.
Attacking the man suggests he’s identified another settled science SNAFU.
Underlying the trials and tribulations of Frank Hibben are a series of C Words that are best avoided in the polite company of settled scientists.
The headline C Word is Catastrophism.
In this category Frank Hibben and Immanuel Velikovsky are serial offenders.
In Alaska, to the north of Mount McKinley, the tallest mountain in North America, the Tanana River joins the Yukon. From the Tanana Valley and the valleys of its tributaries gold is mined out of gravel and “muck.” This muck is a frozen mass of animals and trees.
These animals perished in rather recent times; present estimates place their extinction at the end of the Ice Age or in early post-glacial times. The soil of Alaska covered their bodies together with those of animals of species still surviving.
Under what conditions did this great slaughter take place, in which millions upon millions of animals were torn limb from limb and mingled with uprooted trees?
Could it be that a volcanic eruption killed the animal population of Alaska, the streams carrying down into the valleys the bodies of the slaughtered animals?
A volcanic eruption would have charred the trees but would not have uprooted and splintered them; if it killed animals, it would not have dismembered them.
There are best unsaid C Words like Carnage and Carcass.
In this category Frank Hibben was an inspirational commentator.
Throughout the Alaskan mucks, too, there is evidence of atmospheric disturbances of unparalleled violence.
In one place, we can find the foreleg and shoulder of a mammoth with portions of the flesh and the toenails and the hair still clinging to the blackened bones.
Close by is the neck and skull of a bison with the vertebrae clinging together with tendons and ligaments and the chitinous covering of the horns intact.
There is no mark of a knife or cutting implement.
The animals were simply torn apart and scattered over the landscape like things of straw and string, even though some of them weighed several tons.
Mixed with the piles of bones are trees, also twisted and torn and piled in tangled groups; and the whole is covered with the fine sifting muck, then frozen solid.
And beyond the outrageous C Words is the unforgivable F Bomb.
In 1941 Frank Hibben committed the ultimate settled science sin.
In two short sentences Frank falsified the Doctrine of Uniformity.
With this climatic evidence the deposition of the Alaska mucks may be presumed to have occurred under conditions similar to those of today.
In spite of this fact, however, no such deposition may be demonstrated to be in progress at the present time nor, indeed, has the mode of deposition been adequately determined up to the present date.
And with those two short sentences gradualism fittingly falls to the ground.
In geology, uniformitarianism has included the gradualistic concept that “the present is the key to the past” and that geological events occur at the same rate now as they have always done, though many modern geologists no longer hold to a strict gradualism.
Ever since Frank Hibben stated the bleedin’ obvious the mainstream has pretended their dead doctrine is alive and kicking by nailing it to a podium.
‘E’s not pinin’!
‘E’s passed on!
He has ceased to be!
‘E’s expired and gone to meet ‘is maker!
‘E’s a stiff!
Bereft of life, ‘e rests in peace!
‘Is metabolic processes are now ‘istory!
‘E’s off the twig!
run down the curtain and joined the bleedin’ choir invisible!!

The “Dead Parrot Sketch“, alternatively and originally known as the “Pet Shop Sketch” or “Parrot Sketch”, is a sketch from Monty Python’s Flying Circus.
It was written by John Cleese and Graham Chapman and initially performed in the show’s first series, in the eighth episode (“Full Frontal Nudity”, which first aired 7 December 1969).
This farce is routinely performed in music lecture halls across the globe.
James Hutton FRSE (1726-1797) was a Scottish geologist, physician, chemical manufacturer, naturalist, and experimental agriculturalist. He originated the theory of uniformitarianism —a fundamental principle of geology— that explains the features of the Earth’s crust by means of natural processes over geologic time. Hutton’s work established geology as a science, and as a result he is referred to as the “Father of Modern Geology”.
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