From: Richard Sullivan (richsul@earthlink.net)
Date: 07/28/03-11:15:59 AM Z
ROFL!
I have received reports that Dillehay has done carbon 14 dating on some
mammoth bones found at Monte Verde that show traces of potassium
chloroplatinite. He has also done electron microscopic examination of
surface abrasions and that show traces of cellulose fiber leading Dillehay
to suggest that this was an early form of coating rod used for a primitive
form of platinum printing. Carbon 14 dating pushes the date back to 22,000
or 11,000 years earlier than the earliest known Clovis platinum tools.
--Dick
At 12:22 PM 7/28/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>FYI
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>(c) Associated Press 2003
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>Leading French paleo-curator Janko Youssef announced today that the earliest
>known date of the so-called "New Gum" process has now been moved back
>approximately 31,000 years. Spectrographic analysis of cave paintings at
>Lascaux has determined that these are actually the earliest known examples
>of gum-dichromate printing. X-ray diffraction results confirm the presence
>of trace amounts of ammonium dichromate, gum arabic, and an unidentified
>brown organic pigment. Art historians have generally credited Mongo Ponton
>with the first use of the gum-dichromate technique, but will now have to
>assign credit to a Cro-Magnon man named Wug (no last name recorded).
>Researchers expressed amazement that not only was this the earliest known
>example of this process, but tangential evidence such as image clarity,
>gradation and quality seems to indicate that Wug used the dry dichromate
>technique, with another organic material containing human DNA material
>apparently used as a heat-releasable adhesive in the gum coating. It is
>still not known how Wug was able to develop the gum layer due to its
>position on the cave wall, but a general consensus seems to be emerging that
>it involved Wug and some of his friends using a spraying technique with hot
>water development (most agree that the water temperature was approximately
>98.6 degrees F.) A representative image is located here:
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>http://colophon.com/gallery/minsky/caves.htm
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>Is Stuart Melvin a member of this list? If so, please elaborate on your
>process.
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>I find this "top secret, wait and see at APIS" hype really annoying. It's
>very frustrating to read second hand reports heaping praise upon this guy's
>(Melvin) work with no details, no published reports, etc.... Does this guy
>really exist? Why the silence? If I, an overworked car salesman in rural
>Wyoming with precious little spare time, can post countless contributions to
>the alt-photo list, why can't this so-called gum guru write a single word?
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> >From what I've read of Stuart Melvin (View Camera magazine a few years ago)
>he hasn't done anything that hasn't been done a hundred years ago. So
>what's new? Let's hear it!
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>I regret not attending APIS. I would have loved to have been there, but I
>had to work.
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>Best regards,
>Dave in Big Wonderful Wyoming
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> > Also just for clarity's sake, Stuart doesn't claim to have invented the
> > dry dichromate technique. It was also in some of the old literature,
> > from what he (Stuart) says. None of the things he is doing is new, in
> > and of itself, but I believe, (and I'm putting words in his mouth) that
> > he just wanted to show us his combination of procedures that he has
> > found to be pretty bomb-proof.( if such a state of grace exists in gum!)
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