Did anyone ever pursue any more information about the "Ica Stones"?

Question:I just finished the book: UNDERGROUND! The Disinformation Guide to Ancient Civilizations, Astonishing Archaeology and Hidden History (Edited by Preston Peet)

In the end of the book is an article written by WIll Hart called "Archaeological Cover-Ups: A Plot to control History?" and in it, he writes of a Dr. Javier Cabrera that had amassed thousands of "Ica Stones" with sophisticated carvings of men fighting with dinosaurs, men with telescopes and men performing operations with surgical equipment. The farmer who gave him the first stone said that he found them near the river, after a flood (located in Peru). After everyone got wind of these stones and the BBC made a documentary that ignited a storm of controversy, the farmer was arrested and , from the sound of it, was forced to recant his statement of where he found the stones. The peruvian government threatened to prosecute and imprison the farmer, so he "admitted" to carving the stones himself. HOWEVER, when Dr. Cabrera Sent

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I just finished the book: UNDERGROUND! The Disinformation Guide to Ancient Civilizations, Astonishing Archaeology and Hidden History (Edited by Preston Peet)

In the end of the book is an article written by WIll Hart called "Archaeological Cover-Ups: A Plot to control History?" and in it, he writes of a Dr. Javier Cabrera that had amassed thousands of "Ica Stones" with sophisticated carvings of men fighting with dinosaurs, men with telescopes and men performing operations with surgical equipment. The farmer who gave him the first stone said that he found them near the river, after a flood (located in Peru). After everyone got wind of these stones and the BBC made a documentary that ignited a storm of controversy, the farmer was arrested and , from the sound of it, was forced to recant his statement of where he found the stones. The peruvian government threatened to prosecute and imprison the farmer, so he "admitted" to carving the stones himself. HOWEVER, when Dr. Cabrera Sent

Hi A. at one stage the Peruvian government asked to have them
Carbon Dated , this failed owing to the fact that there was no organic matter in the stones. Carbon dating needs organic matter to work.
Plenty of people have written about them. here are some you may like to check out.
* Council for Media Integrity Blasts Networks for Distorted Treatments of Science
* "Ancient Technology - Did the Ancients really need Aliens?" Paul Willis interviews Dr. David Dearborne, an astronomer and physicist who's worked extensively on Inca astronomy
* Stephen Wagner, About.com, The Mysterious Ica Stones
* Domesticated Dinosaurs? by David MattheI
I am sorry I didn't have anymore on the subject for you.
I will be interested to see if any one has, as I like you am interested in them.
Part of me wants to believe in them, while the other part has so many questions which need to be answerd.
Good luck my friend,
Cathorio.

I've long held an interest in ancient pre-Columbian antiquities and have traveled to Peru on several occasions. My research with the labyrinth originally brought me to Nazca, Peru to visit the extraordinary labyrinthine lines of the Nazca pampa. On my first trip to the coastal desert I met Dr. Javier Cabrera at his private museum in the village of Ica, located just north of the famous Nazca Lines.

Dr. Cabrera showed me his immense collection of ancient carved Stones that he called “gliptoliths.” The Stones comprise a sophisticated library left behind by an ancient lost civilization including images of medical transplants and blood transfusions, men with dinosaurs, and advanced technology such as telescopes and surgical equipment. The library is organized by subject matter including the races of man, ancient animals, lost continents, and the knowledge of a global catastrophe.

The doctor had spent the past thirty years endeavoring to decode the mystery of the stones. He came into possession of his first stone when he was given one as a paperweight for his birthday. He recalled his father having a small oddly carved stone that his family found in their field in the l930's, but which has long since disappeared. Early Spanish chronicles reported similar stones found in ancient pre-conquest tombs.

Cabrera's collection numbers upward of 11,000 stones with more than l5, 000 known to exist. The huge cache was unearthed when the Ica River overflowed its banks a number of years ago destroying a nearby mountain, and exposing an unknown cave. An illiterate farmer claimed to have found the cave but would not reveal its location. News of the find caught the interest of researchers, and the eyes of the world turned toward Ica. Subsequently, the BBC produced a documentary on the enigmatic discovery bringing an extraordinary amount of focus on the Peruvian Government.

Under pressure to police the country’s antiquity law, the Government arrested the farmer for selling the stones. Facing years of incarceration, the farmer recanted his story claiming he’d carved all l5, 000 of the stones himself. The stones were labeled a hoax, and the government considered the embarrassing matter closed. Life in Ica returned to normal, or so the story goes.

It has been suggested that the “highly technical knowledge” of the scenes, defy that anyone with “little or no education,” and without a deep understanding of complex scientific knowledge, could ever depict the stones so accurately. In fact, it has been noted, the farmer would have had to carve one stone every day for over 40 years to produce the total library!

The Stone’s are a form of andesite, a local river rock, covered with a patina of natural oxidation. Laboratories in Germany have authenticated the incisions that make up the carvings as extremely ancient. Nearby fossil finds indicate the area to be replete in bone fragments millions of years old.

Cabrera theorized that Gliptolithic man possessed a highly technical knowledge of medical procedures and had discovered a means of overcoming rejection of organs that are just now being utilized by modern medicine. Shown in a series of carvings are the isolation and extraction of cellular material in a pregnant woman's placenta with the reintroduction into the transplant patient to eliminate the possibility of rejection. Artificial life support systems are featured using an unknown energy that seems to be conveyed through the surgeons themselves. There is work with genetic codes and the prolongation of life. Blood vessels are shown being reconnected via re-absorption tubes utilizing the natural regeneration of cells. There are descriptions of cesarean section with acupuncture as a form of anesthesia.

In another series, four stones show the hemispheres of Earth pointing to the existence of unknown continent’s that today remains a part of our collective myth. Supporting the ancient continent’s theory, researcher and author, James Churchward, discovered a sacred Tibetan tablet showing two unknown continents on either side of present day America. Plato spoke of the lost continent of Atlantis, as did ancient records from the East. Explorer William Niven discovered a petroglyph in the Yucatan depicting an unexplained configuration of land masses in both the Atlantic, and the Pacific Oceans, thought to be Atlantis and Mu. Only recently have scientists agreed on the continental shift theory that the Americas, Asia, and Africa were all defined entirely different than today. With the assistance of geologists Cabrera has confirmed that the land mass is indeed accurate for Earth as it was geologically constructed millions of years ago.

With over 15,000 stones in existence and theories of extra-terrestrial intelligence, controversy continues to surround the Ica Stones. As far as the Peruvian government is concerned, the issue is closed. However, the enigma of the Ica Stones will simply not go away.

October 2001 - I've just returned from four weeks in Peru and a private interview with Dr. Javier Cabrera at his home and museum in Ica. Little did I know that this would be the last interview the doctor would grant before succumbing to cancer on December 30, 2001. Although obviously frail the doctor greeted me cordially, this having been our third meeting in as many years. I was anxious to learn of the future of his museum and to ask what I might do to assist. I was carrying a message from a wealthy businessman in Lima who had offered to fund a foundation for the Ica Stone Museum.

This article also tells of the Ica Stones Museum and Association with more information.

Hello,

Looks like they are fakes painted by a local. Please check this article:

http://skepdic.com/icastones.html

Cheers,

Michael Kelly