Farmer Finds Stones in Peru With Prehistoric Carvings
I never thought a bunch of rocks could capture my imagination so thoroughly.
As I think back over my three years on the road, biking with my husband and children from Alaska to Argentina, I never thought I would see 20,000 extraordinary rocks intricately carved by some mysterious ancient civilization. But I did. Here’s what I discovered.
All it took was one quick look inside the door of Dr. Cabrera’s Stone Museum in Ica, Peru, for me to want more. Fortunately, Dr. Cabrera’s daughter, Eugenia, willingly opened the museum to us and agreed to show us around. And what a tour it was, I hung on her every word!
Dr. Cabrera’s Stone Museum is a small, private museum located on the Plaza de Armas in Ica, Peru, about four hours south of Lima. It was started by Dr. Javier Cabrera to safeguard the many mysterious carved rocks found in the area.
Cabrera died a few years ago and his daughter now maintains the museum, passing on some of her father’s wisdom.
It is reported that more than 50,000 carved stones have been found in the desert surrounding Ica. About 20,000 of them are in the museum.
The first thing one notices about the stones, besides the vast number of them, is that they are much more dense than normal stones. They have two layers, black basalt in the center and a shiny black andesite as an outside layer. They come in all sizes, from small enough to fit in your palm to one meter high.
Regardless of their size, they all have the two layers and all of them are intricately carved with great precision.
The Carvings
The stones are carved with scenes of ancient people. The carvings depict a huge variety of scenes from everyday life. The most spectacular carvings (and most mysterious) appear to display advanced medical knowledge including brain surgery, heart transplants, and genetic experimentation.
Image: Brattarb
The stones seem to depict someone performing a heart transplant in great detail, as well as someone taking a brain out of a patient and hooking it up to some sort of apparatus to keep it alive.
In some of the carvings, people are shown using telescopes and looking at the stars.
Image: Eugenia Cabrera
What Does It All Mean?
Unfortunately, we don’t know for certain what the carvings mean. When the stones first started appearing in the desert around Ica, Peru, it is said that nobody knew what they were and a farmer started selling them to tourists.
Purportedly, when the government threatened to jail the farmer for selling antiquities, he claimed he carved them himself. At this point, the official story is that one farmer or a small group of people carved the stones for profit.
There are holes in this story though.
Given the fact that 50,000 stones have been found so far (all of them in the desert around Ica), it would be very difficult for a small group of people to create them. Let’s just say that they’ve been carving them for 50 years now; that means they’ve carved 1,000 stones every single year for 50 years. In order for that to happen, they would need to be churning out three stones per day.
Is it possible that one man dedicated himself to carving these stones? Or a small group? How have they remained such a secret? How would a poor farmer in rural Peru know the things that are depicted on the stones?
Nobody really knows who carved the stones or why, but Cabrera believes they were an encyclopedia of ancient knowledge.
His theory was that a super-intelligent civilization lived in the area. It was a highly advanced society with complex knowledge of astronomy, physics, and medicine. These ancients also knew that a cataclysmic event was about to occur, which would destroy nearly everything on Earth.
In their desperation to save their knowledge and pass it on to future generations, the people of the society carved rocks. Rocks, being durable and virtually indestructible, would be able to survive the cataclysmic event.
They placed the rocks in one location for safekeeping, but they have since been scattered around, washed away in rivers or by other natural processes. Cabrera believed the rocks were stored in one cave, which has yet to be found.
The stones depict dinosaurs, meaning this civilization would have coexisted with the dinosaurs, countering conventionally accepted timelines of human history.
Theories abound about how and why these rocks were carved. What do you think? Please leave your thoughts in the comments!
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Header image: Brattarb
Editor’s note: The Swiss author Erich von Daniken expounded similar ideas of carvings on rocks found in the Nazca Desert, where the huge and enigmnatic designs are located, and also of the carving of the king Pacal on the lid of his sarchophagus in the Temple of the Inscriptions at the Maya site of Palenque in Central America. Many of von Daniken’s ideas have been discredited, and so in time these rocks, which show no surface weathering, may be discredited too.
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schutzhund
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Needs many more photos, thanks
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Eduardo Ferreyra
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You can find better information here; http://thegreaterpicture.com/Ica_stones.php
Or simply Google “ocucaje carved stones”.
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Jerry Krause
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Hi Eduardo,
Both the article you referenced and this article agree on one thing. The farmers could be craving on the somewhat unique (They have two layers, black basalt in the center and a shiny black andesite as an outside layer.) stones and selling them to tourists..
When I researched these andesite stones I did not find any information of how easy it would be to scratch the possible thin shiny black andesite layer. And I find it strange that no one was reported about what would be a simple experiment. And I have not read anyone questioning the why, or how, there are is many of these stones on this farmers field. Which observable fact I believe just as I believe the photos of the cravings on the stones.
I recently found, for free, a 3-D wood carving of three elephants’ heads (etc.). And questioned how this was done. And I found that indeed Tibetan wood carvers (artists) whose art was ultimately to carve very beautiful 3-D sculptures These artist taught their technology to students whom I considered carved these elephant heads which were sold inexpensively for practical purposes. Like mine which which was a devise to hold a door open. And I doubt that anyone could have carved the elephant heads in a day. You need to read about the Tibetan wood carving to appreciate what some humans have done and still are doing if they are artists.
Have a good day, Jerry
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Jerry Krause
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Hi PSI Readers,
I almost overlooked the fact that these stones have smooth surfaces. Which might have some environmental natural significance.
Have a good day, Jerry
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MattH
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As you are aware, Dr. Krause, stones having smooth surfaces is usually an indication that the stones have spent a significant proportion of their existence rolling around in river beds.
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Jerry Krause
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Hi Matt,
Of course I am aware that “smooth surfaces is usually an indication that the stones have spent a significant proportion of their existence rolling around in river beds.”
That is why I drew attention to the smooth stones. For that is proof that the designs were not drawn thousands of years ago. Thank you for drawing attention to how stones and boulders get smooth. Of course, glaciers also do what streams do. And we should not forget that continents do drift. And, there is unquestionable geological evidence that glaciers have formed and melted several times along the Missouri River of North America. Hence, there has been natural global warming.
Have a good day, Jerry
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