Mystery AtlasIca Stones
Thousands of carved andesite stones from Ica, Peru, depicting imagery including apparent dinosaurs and advanced technology; their creation was confessed by farmer Basilio Uschuya in the 1970s as a modern forgery for the tourist trade.
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Objects & Artifacts
- Piltdown Manpresented 1912; exposed 1953
Ica Stones is frequently compared to Piltdown Man — Both are confirmed modern fabrications initially mistaken, or promoted, as genuine ancient evidence, unlike this page's other three cases, which are misidentified genuine objects rather than deliberate forgeries.
Concepts & Beliefs
Ica Stones has proposed explanation Out-of-Place Artifact (OOPArt) Claim.