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NewslettersSpring/Summer/ 1999Archaeological Anomaly
While conducting research for further items to be included in the new edition of our book, The Puzzle of Ancient Man, we were informed of a source of detailed documentation for the "Nampa Image" or "Nampa Doll" as it has become known. During one of our seminars last fall, Mr. Fred Brauer learned of our interest in obtaining pictures and reliable documentation for the "Nampa Doll." Although the excellent documentation provided by Mr. Brauer didn't make it into the book, we thought readers of the Newsletter would be interested in this OOPArt (out-of- place artifact) The Nampa Image appears to have been modeled out of stiff clay and fired at a low temperature. It was found in 1889 during the boring of a artesian well near Nampa, Idaho. After drilling through a layer of lava rock and penetrating to a depth of about 300 feet, the image was washed up. It is about the size of a small egg. From the State of Idaho Historical Society we have the following quote. "While attention is from time to time being directed to archaeological discoveries in the Orient, the public is hardly aware of the rapid accumulation of facts bearing upon the prehistoric condition of America, and revealing an antiquity of the human race on this continent equal to, if not exceeding that assigned by tangible evidence to man in the Old World." (G. Frederick Wright, "An Archaeological Discovery in Idaho" Scribner's Magazine, 1890). The same author says that the doll supports the hypothesis "that civilization advanced on the Pacific Coast long in advance of that which has anywhere else been discovered. And it is by no means impossible that we have some relics of those catastrophes by flood which are so universal in the traditions of all nations." (Wright, "The Idaho Find" American Antiquarian, 11:379-381, 1889) We thank Fred Brauer for photographs and documentation of the Nampa image.
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