The modern man is pretty clear and clearrepresents a picture of the development of mankind: Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic. And while it is clear that the stone tools were replaced by bronze. But sometimes archaeological excavations or even simple findings call into question all the shelved and sorted data. Such stunning finds include Ica stones. Found during agricultural work in the fields in Peru and in places of ancient Indian burials, they turned the emerging worldview upside down for centuries, questioning many scientific facts.
Initially, these findings were called "engravedstones of the Ochukaeus ", including in its name the locality of the initial discovery. Ica stones are cobblestones engraved with images. To give additional relief to the drawing, some of them are covered with black matter. Admittedly, the amazing technique with which drawings on these stones are made can compete with numerous contemporary works of art.
In the early 70-ies of the 20 th century, these finds werefamous for the whole world as the stones of Ika, based on the name of the city in which their largest number was concentrated. The first mention of cobblestones occurs in the annals of the 16th century, which can only mean one thing - these stones made such a deep impression on the authors that they could not help mentioning them in their memoirs.
Brothers Soldi - the first major collectors,collected a huge amount of these items. In the mid-50s of the 20th century, the brothers, whose main occupation was winemaking, acquired a huge plot of land near the Okucahye district, planning to use it for vineyards. However, when it was processed, it was discovered that there is a large number of ancient Peruvian burials on the territory. At the same time, peasants, plowing the land, brought Soldi every day historical finds, among which were the stones of Ika. Interested in relief drawings, the brothers began actively buying up similar stones from black archaeologists - uakeros, who did not particularly appreciate them.
In different ways Soldi tried to attractattention of the public, and in particular, historians and archaeologists, to these engraved drawings. But all their attempts were in vain. Neither Iki's stones nor the drawings on them represented any interest for science until the surgeon Cabrera became interested in them. His collection, the beginning of which was an accidentally presented stone, had a large number of exhibits, each of which depicted a scene from the life of ancient people.
It is thanks to his research on the whole worldbecame famous stones Iki. Photos of these fantastic stones, with their relief drawings questioned many facts of life of people of the Paleolithic, quickly occupied the tables of the great scientists of the world. And the scientific world shuddered: how could it be that the stones of that epoch depicted the most complicated surgical operations, or pictures showing people a peaceful, harmonious neighborhood of a man with a dinosaur. Scenes of hunting for dinosaurs, dinosaurs in the role of pets, breeding dinosaurs and dinosaurs as nannies of human children - all this has found reflection in such subjects as stones. Ica, the city in which the largest collection of these cobblestones is collected, is attacked by all the scientists of the world. The motive of these people is clear: to recognize the stones as fakes. If this proves to be true, then there are no questions about how, having crossed the epochs of evolution, dinosaurs lived together with people. The second fantastic version is the version that the ancient Peruvians somehow learned about the existence of dinosaurs, reflected their knowledge on the stones. But, as they say, it is easier to renounce a fantastic idea than to give it even an insignificant chance of existence.
