4. The Nampa Figurine, and Technology in the Coal
Another anomalous
find was discovered in 1889 at Nampa, Idaho at a depth of 300 feet,
again from a well-boring. The figurine is an anatomically correct
depiction of the modern human form, of a female, and of very
refined artistic technique. The figurine is only approximately 1 ½
inches tall, making the refinement of the artistic technique it
displays the more remarkable. The strata from which the little
female figure came dates from the Plio-Pleistocene age, making it
approximately 2,000,000 years old!
Another remarkably
old object was discovered by an Illinois housewife as she was
breaking up coal to place in her coal scuttle. On breaking up one
lump, she discovered a gold chain of apparently antique design was
partially embedded in one of the fragments. After the woman’s death
the chain could not be traced, but the layer of coal from which it
allegedly came made the chain between 260-320 million years
old.678 A similar incident
occurred in Oklahoma, when an iron pot was discovered embedded in
coal that had been broken up. The coal was traced to its original
mine, where the strata from which the pot came dated to 312,000,000
years ago.679 Again the
implications of these discoveries would be dismissible if there was
only one of them, but two such discoveries in widely separated
regions, from approximately the same time period indicate that
someone with technological metal-working skills existed on planet
Earth a very long time ago.