A Mammoth Fraud in Science

Dados Bibliográficos

AUTOR(ES) B.D. Smith , D.J. Meltzer , William C. Sturtevant , James B. Griffin
ANO 1988
TIPO Artigo
PERIÓDICO American Antiquity
ISSN 0002-7316
E-ISSN 2325-5064
EDITORA Elsevier (Netherlands)
DOI 10.2307/281218
CITAÇÕES 4
ADICIONADO EM 2025-08-18
MD5 f77fd8e2d039687f63f667147621c0c6

Resumo

The Holly Oak pendant is a shaped piece of marine whelk (Busycon sinistrum) shell with two holes drilled in one end that bears an incised depiction of an extinct proboscidean (woolly mammoth or mastodon). It allegedly was recovered in 1864 from an archaeological site in Delaware. There was speculation in the 1970s as to its age and significance, and it was illustrated and cited as a Paleoindian artifact of Pleistocene age. Subsequent analyses indicated the artifact was fraudulent: The engraving probably was done in the 1880s on a shell recovered from an archaeological site. This has been confirmed by a recently obtained AMS radiocarbon date. The Holly Oak pendant is a modern forgery.

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