Jim Hatt
Full Member
Oroblanco said:There is a great deal I don't know about the Peralta Stones, and apparently you are not willing to provide a free education. I can't say that I blame you either, for there are people who would love to pick your brain and may well be hoping that you will post some critical info due to this debate so I can understand why you seem reluctant to put everything on the table.
Good Morning Roy,
There is a wealth of information to be gained by simply removing the chaff and examining the wheat that is left. Mike and I have repeated ourselves many times, in our attempt to remove a lot of the chaff for you. But you keep picking it back up and throwing it right back in with the wheat again.
re: "apparently you are not willing to provide a free education"
A good deal of the education (The wheat) that you seek, has already been laid out before you in the preceding pages here, and in other forums and websites. (ie: DUSA and 1oro1). You can either accept the results of all the work Mike and I have put into reaching our conclusions, or you can dismiss it, do your own research, and form your own conclusions.
There is no such thing as a "Free education". Even when it is presented to you without cost. It requires an investment of time and effort on your part, to absorb and understand it.
To date... I cannot see where you have accepted a single thing either one of us have told you. What is that old saying? "You can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make him drink"... or something like that.
Best,
Jim
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Likewise with a sander or grinder, we don't know for a fact what Tumlinson DID when he cleaned the stones, we are assuming it was soap and water, maybe a sponge and brush but who can say for sure? Maybe the very marks seen by the four experts that led them to conclude a modern origin, were put there not by the maker but by Tumlinson in a clumsy, over-eager and rough cleaning job. I have seen some rare artifacts that got pretty much ruined by an over-eager cleaning job (in one example, a rare WW I US commando knife got the wire-brush + dremel treatment, removing ALL of the markings and putting ugly scratches all over it) and we can imagine that someone who found such curiosities as the Peralta Stones might well be pretty excited.







