< ======================================== < COAL-AGE MAN-MADE HANDLE FOR WEAPON OR TOOL < http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/FOSSILS/OldestTool.jpg < ======================================== < > Lin Liangtai (lin440...@[EMAIL PROTECTED] ) of Taipei, Taiwan, > posted the following to talk.origins on Sat., Sept. 23, 2006. > Ed Conrad had placed the specimen in his possession > for testing. < Mr. Ed Conrad's fossil wood has been proven to be man-made. < The wood has been identified by a coal petrographer and a paleobotanist in Kentucky to be cordaite stem. < The thin sections of the fossil wood's cross section shows no pith or pith cast. They also show the fossil has no radial structure of wood (rays and tracheids) in its cross section. < Instead, they show parallel structure of wood (rays and tracheids) in its cross section. < Anyone who knows a bit about wood knows that the cross section of natural tree stems shows wood in its radial structure of rays and tracheids, while a wooden handle's end show parallel structure of the wood (rays, tracheids,vessels). < The related photos can be seen at: < http://tw.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/lin440315/album?.dir=bd1dscd&.src=ph... http://tw.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/lin440315/my_photos < IMAG5969 was taken from the thin section's center while IMAG 5970 was taken from the thin section's top side. < Lin Liangtai < =========================================== < < MAN AS OLD AS COAL < (All Specimens Discovered Between Anthracite Veins) < http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/FOSSILS/OldestHumanSkull.JPG http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/FOSSILS/HumanBrain.jpg http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/ManasOldasCoal/Discoveries.jpg http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/FOSSILS/FirstDiscovery.jpg http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Evidence/MoreFossils.jpg http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/FOSSILS/ManasOldasCoal.jpg < Ed Conrad > http://www.edconrad.com < =====================================
