Near 1889, a little human picture made of clay was discovered in Nampa, Idaho. The figure was discovered at a depth of almost 300 feet in a wellbore, indicating that it was made long before man arrived in this region of the planet.
No other hominid besides Homo sapiens sapiens is known to have created works of art comparable to the Nampa figure. As a result, evidence implies that modern people lived in America roughly 2 million years ago, at the Plio-Pleistocene border.
In 1887, James A. Pinney, Nathan Falk, Joseph Perrault, John Bernard, and M. A. Kurtz created a business to find artesian water in Nampa, Idaho, which was then a frontier settlement.
Figurine of Nampa.
Mark A. Kurtz, one of the drilling company’s proprietors, was inspecting material brought up by a sand pump from a layer of clay over 300 feet deep in the well digging by July 1889. He had a weird thing in his hands. He discovered it was a miniature human figure after cleaning it.
Kurtz subsequently presented the statuette to Union Pacific Railroad President Charles F. Adams, who happened to be traveling through Idaho at the time. Adams wrote to G. F. Wright about his finding after reading a book by him.
Wright, writing from the East Coast of the United States, requested an image of the artifact from Kurtz. Kurtz answered that he couldn’t take a picture, so he mailed Wright the figure instead. “The thing is approximately an inch and a half long, and notable for the precision with which it represents the human figure,” Wright said.
“It was a female form,” he said, “and had the realistic lineaments in the final sections that would do justice to the historic centers of art.” Wright also looked into the borehole to determine whether the figure had fallen from a higher level. “It will be better to present the facts more completely to address complaints,” he said.
“The well had a diameter of six inches and was tubed with strong iron tubing that was pushed down from the top and screwed together piece by section as work progressed.” As a result, anything working in from the sides was impossible. After entering the lava deposit near the surface, the drill was not utilized; instead, the tube was pushed down, and the contained material was periodically pumped out using a sand pump.”
The thing had not been made recently. It was darkly pigmented, owing to the iron oxides found in the deposits below 300 feet. Wright exhibited the artifact to Harvard University archaeologist F. W. Putnam. “When I showed the item to Professor F. W. Putnam,” Wright said, “he immediately pointed out the nature of the iron incrustations on the surface as suggestive of a remnant of significant age.”
“It had patches of anhydrous red oxide of iron in protected locations on it, which could not have been generated on a forgery.” While on the ground in the area in 1890, I compared the discoloration of the oxide on the photograph with that on the clay balls still located among the debris that had come from the well, and found it to be as closely comparable as possible.
“These confirmatory evidences, together with the very satisfactory character of the evidence furnished by the parties who made the discovery, and confirmed by Mr. G. M. Cumming, of Boston (at the time superintendent of that pision of the Oregon Short Line Railroad, and who knew all the parties, and was on the ground a day or two after the discovery), established the genuineness of the discovery beyond a reasonable doubt.”
“The object’s overall conformance to other human artifacts discovered under the lava deposits on the Pacific coast should be added to this proof.” The Nampa picture resembles the famed Willendorf Venus, which is considered to be about 30,000 years old.”
Venus of Willendorf.
According to current Darwinian evolution views, figurines like the Idaho picture are only manufactured by modern humans, who first appeared roughly 200,000 years ago.
The first sculptures of human figures with a level of workmanship comparable to that of the Nampa picture date from Europe’s Late Paleolithic era, some 20,000 to 30,000 years ago. Humans, on the other hand, have been here on Earth from the beginning of time, according to ancient Sanskrit literature from India. According to traditional sources, there are gods and goddesses in Indian temples that are as ancient as or older than the Nampa picture.
W. H. Holmes of the Smithsonian Institution stated that the Nampa figure “seriously questions the evolutionary hypothesis.” In his Handbook of Aboriginal American Antiquities, published in 1919, Holmes wrote:
“The formation in which the pump was running is late Tertiary or early Quaternary in age,” according to Emmons, “and the seeming improbability of a well-modeled human figure in deposits of such enormous antiquity has led to considerable skepticism regarding its validity.”
Figurine of Nampa.
It must have been slid down from a higher level, according to Holmes. Evidence that contradicts evolutionary beliefs regarding the human species’ antiquity is sometimes dismissed for this reason alone.
If Holmes could have proved that he could drop a figurine in that spot and have it descend 300 feet into the earth along a natural passage through a 15-foot layer of basalt and further down to the 300-foot level, that would have been actual proof in favor of his idea.
However, no such proof was produced. We must also consider Dr. Putnam’s and Dr. Jewett’s evidence that the item was of significant antiquity. The Nampa photograph is now housed in the Idaho State Historical Society in Boise, Idaho.
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