Cambodian temple carving and stegosaurus
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Topic: Cambodian temple carving and stegosaurus
Posted By: Sander
Subject: Cambodian temple carving and stegosaurus
Date Posted: 12-Jun-2011 at 19:34
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Strange...
 The stegosaurus died out a long time ago so how come something that looks like it appears on a Cambodian templerelief (Ta Prohm temple ca 1200 AD) ?
   Just in case, no evidence for a fraud exists. The historians on Cambodian art don't hold so either. This relief seems as genuine as the other reliefs on the same pillars depicting lizards, monkeys etc :   Lizard and monkey
Some critics argue rightly that the alleged stegosaurus is anatomically not 100 % correct( “head is too big” .. “ the spike at the tail is missing ".. )But in several other temple carvings the heads (and other parts) of elephants, lions, horses are not depicted fully correct either. As long as an animal is recognizable, there is no major problem.
Anyway, I don't think a stegosaurus roamed that region in the last millenia and was carved on the temple. Which animal has a better resemblance to the carved one? Any good suggestion?
For more info and various views : search for stegosaurus and Ta Prohm
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Posted By: unclefred
Date Posted: 13-Jun-2011 at 20:44
| There are a number of ceramics in Moche period Peru depicting what looks like dinosaurs. I attribute them to fossil finds. |
Posted By: Centrix Vigilis
Date Posted: 14-Jun-2011 at 21:15
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Probably the best explanation as fossil finds are common enough today that reasonably one might assume the same for earlier periods. The difference being that the then vs. now had little scientific developement to judge what they were in relation to the socio-mythic-theologic culture at hand.
Croc worship in Egypt for example. ------------- "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence" S. T. Friedman Pilger's law: 'If it's been officially denied, then it's probably true' |
Posted By: Nick1986
Date Posted: 10-Oct-2011 at 22:16
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Fossils are the most plausible explanation. If dinosaurs did exist in South America you'd expect to see photographs, remains or tracks ------------- Me Grimlock not nice Dino! Me bash brains! |
Posted By: red clay
Date Posted: 11-Oct-2011 at 09:08
It's only been in the last 5 years that the dig notes of hundreds of excavations have been reviewed and indicate that fossil bones have been found at nearly every site in Greece. They weren't relevant to what they were looking for, so they weren't considered important. The ancient Greeks worshipped them as the bones of Heroes. On one site they found a leg bone from a sauropod in the village square. It was venerated as the bone of one of the Mythologic Heroes.
The Greeks could well be the first paleontologists. ------------- "Arguing with someone who hates you or your ideas, is like playing chess with a pigeon. No matter what move you make, your opponent will walk all over the board and scramble the pieces". Unknown. |