Let's Discuss the Ica Stones

i think the fact that there are SO MANY of them is suspect. it's more evidential to them being hoaxes than genuine artifacts.see, they hired the natives for digging and whatnot, and paid them for every such artifact found. they admitted to copying the anatomy from books and magazines and whatnot, and sold many to tourists as a gimmick.also, the t-rex or whatever in the stone you posted is anatomically inaccurate. they were not tripodal animals, they walked on two legs using their tail in a level fashion to balance. all two-legged dinos did this. it's most certainly not actually a tyrannosaur, because it's too small and it's arms are too long.the other stone is depicting a triceratops, which was a north american dinosaur.in other words, they people who made these stone had never seen the animals.

unfortunately, i am no expert in ancient art.but they just don't look legit to me.

never said they did.apparently, lots of townsfolk were in on it. it was quite the booming industry for some time. you mean on the sauropod? are you seriously contending that it looks like these guys?image removed to fix the page width porblemsthat's amargasaurus. they're from la amarga, ARGENTINA. that's a bit aways from peru, but granted not much. however, as clearly demonstrated, it looks nothing like one. aside from that, the dermal spines the study was on may have been "as high as 18cm!"in other words, TINY compared to even the smallish 12m amargasausus.what those look like are stegosaurus plates. no saurapod has ever been found with anything similar. amargusaurus is the closest we've got. how about the fact that two-legged dinosaurs walked on two legs, not hopped on their tails like kangaroos?This message has been edited by Arachnophilia, 06-12-2004 03:23 AM

[qs]that is... If you think that not all of the dinosaurs in all of the countries have been found.[qs] those still don't look like plates to me.(also, admins, i don't know what happened to the page width, but it's not me, it's mf now)

please also note that these are not PLATES. we have not found any sauropods with PLATES.and seeing iguanodon depicted that was brings back fond memories of childhood. although i think they're much nicer looking on four legs, in a way that doesn't break their tails.

lol.

no.

triceratops was north american. it is currently extinct.no triceratops, living or dead, has ever been found in asia. several other ceratopsian species onced lived in asia, though, including the older, more primitive ceratopsians such as psittacosaurus and protoceratops.