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Wooden handle of the hammer has petrified outside. The handle inside turned into coal. Then its age is estimated: millions years too. Specialists of Metallurgical Institute in Columbus (Ohio) were amazed with chemical composition of the hammer: iron – 96.6%, chlorine – 2.6%, sulfur – 0.74%. Other impurities could not be detected. Such pure iron has not been received in the history of the earth metallurgy.
Quality of iron even by the modern measures is exclusively high. But that is the kind of detail: iron of "the Texas hammer" does not rust! When a piece of rock with the ingrown tool has been chipped from the rock in 1934, the metal in one place was badly scratched. No signs of corrosion appeared on the scratch for last more than sixty years… According to estimates of Drake Buff, the director of the Museum of Fossil Antiquities in which this hammer is being stored, the find comes from early Cretaceous – from 140 to 65 million years ago.
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Source: dopotopa.com
About 100 years ago the part of a petrified sole of a shoe was found in the USA. It was in rock, whose age over 213 million years. Under a magnifying lens it is possible to make out drawing of stitches. The single known photo was published in the New-York newspaper in 1922.
The microscopic analysis which has been carried out by the expert from Rockefeller institute, showed that owing to the complex bends and curls of the thread used at an insertion, it is possible to say that it there was a fossil man-made subject.
Source: M. Baigent, Ancient Traces: Mysteries in Ancient and Early History.
Eksmo. Moscow, 2004. ISBN 5-699-04989-4. Page 16.
Traces of bare feet similar to traces of the person, were found in 1835 after the heavy pouring rains near of Carson in the State of Nevada (USA). They were being printed in Triassic sandstones with the age from 213 to 248 million years. Footprints of humans or human-like creatures were also found in Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, Georgia, China, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Tanzania, South Africa, Australia and several other countries.
Source: dopotopa.com
Certainly, the last artifacts can be reflection of activity of technological civilizations at early stages of development (primitive-communal system), but, similarly, they can be and by confirmation of existence of the civilizations which formed on ruins of technological civilizations both have partially kept remnants of technologies and some bases of culture of these civilizations.