declared to be genuine. The imprint of the pot could also still be clearly seen in the broken chunks
of coal that had encased it.
According to Robert O. Fay of the Oklahoma Geological Survey, the Wilburton mine coal in
which the pot was found is about 312 million years old.
Fig.33Evidence of Advanced Medical Knowledge
Apart from enigmatic works in stone there are also telltale signs of extremely advanced
surgical procedures that were performed in days long past. These come in the form of numerous
skulls from the Neolithic age that appear to have been trepanned. Trepanning involves inserting
plates into a patient’s skull. It’s a delicate and quite advanced medical procedure. Richard
Mooney explains the process in his book ‘Colony Earth’ in this way:
"Trepanning today is an operation in which a section of bone in the skull is removed, either to
ease pressure caused by a tumor or blood clot, or to remove splinters of bone caused by a skull
fracture, and the cavity closed by a plate. The operation is hardly minor and requires great skill
and care to perform. It is difficult to believe that Neolithic man - if he was, as has been thought,
extremely primitive - could have carried out such operations with the crudest techniques, a flint
knife, and no anesthetics or notions of hygiene."
Evidence shows that the survivors of this ancient cranial treatment also went on to live for
years afterwards, this is very remarkable considering that up until quite recent times, patients
undergoing any type of trepanning had a very high mortality rate due to infection, blood
poisoning and the other obvious complications involved with cranial surgery. Still more evidence
of ancient trepanning also comes to us from the former Soviet Union where examination of
several skulls unearthed at Ishtikunuy near Lake Sevan in Armenia, indicate a similar highly
developed technique of cranial surgery employed over 4000 years ago! One patient had obviously
suffered a serious head injury and the prehistoric surgeon had neatly plugged the fracture by
using a carefully shaped wedge that had been delicately crafted from animal bone. The skull
showed obvious signs that the patients bone tissue had then grown over and enveloped the plug
which adequately indicates that the person had survived the operation and lived for quite some
time afterwards.
Another similar skull was found revealing that one woman had been operated upon to remove
an inch wide object that had smashed through her skull, penetrating directly into the brain but the
surgeon had cut around the object to remove the splinters and again closed the wound using a