In the tube of sand pump, it would be subject to the laws of physics and knocked around at least enough to pulverize the fragile clay figurine. This is a small quibble to be sure, but it is relevant since if it were brought up in a core sample, the figurine would be stable and not bumped about. Cremo’s response to Brass is that a tube was used after drilling through the lava layer to pump out the sand but, previously, he mentions that the figurine was brought up with a “core sample.” Cremo is critical of Michael Brass, who wrote in his book, The Antiquity of Man: Artifactual, Fossil and Gene Records Explored, that it would have been destroyed by the drilling equipment upon retrieval as it was brought up to the surface. Cremo’s account of the artifact’s discovery is both credulous and inconsistent. The figurine, about an inch and a half long and made of baked clay was reported to have been recovered by the sand pump from a depth of 300+ feet. The Nampa drilling rig was likely mounted to a wagon.Īccording to Cremo, the figurine (dubbed the Nampa Image) was recovered by workers who were drilling a water-well in Nampa, Idaho in 1889. This is a slightly later image from the 1930s or 1940s in Kansas. The sort of water well drilling that might have taken place in Nampa. He titles the article, “The Mystery of the Nampa Image.” Let me dispel the mystery. In the July/August 2007 issue of Atlantis Rising, a ragazine that appeals to the significance-junkie, the mystery-monger, and skeptics like me who are fascinated with the first two, Michael Cremo’s column “Forbidden Archaeology” highlights a figurine of dubious origin.
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