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== Erroneously dated objects ==
* Aiud object: An aluminum wedge found in 1974 in the [[Mureș River]] in central [[Romania]], near the town of [[Aiud]]; it has been claimed by Romanian [[Ufology|ufologists]] to be of ancient and/or [[wikt:extraterrestrial|extraterrestrial]] origin,<ref name="RealitateaTV">RealitateaTV (2014) [http://ziuadecj.realitatea.net/life--and--style/specialist-despre-obiectul-preistoric-neidentificat-din-depozitele-muzeului-de-istorie-apartine-unui-robot-primitiv-video--125044.html "Specialist despre obiectul preistoric neidentificat din depozitele muzeului de istorie: 'aparţine unui robot primitiv'"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180727145641/http://ziuadecj.realitatea.net/life--and--style/specialist-despre-obiectul-preistoric-neidentificat-din-depozitele-muzeului-de-istorie-apartine-unui-robot-primitiv-video--125044.html |date=2018-07-27 }}, RealitateaTV.net.</ref> yet it is more likely a fragment of modern machinery lost during excavation work.<ref name="Hilblairious">Hilblairious (2014) [http://hilblairious.blogspot.ca/2014/12/aluminum-aliens-and-gear-they-left.html "Aluminum, Aliens (1): What "THEY" left Behind in Aiud"], Hilblairious.blogspot.ca.</ref>{{Unreliable source|date=April 2024|certain=y}}
* [[Coso artifact]]: Claimed to be prehistoric; actually a 1920s [[spark plug]] that had become encased in a [[concretion]].<ref name=StrombergOthers2004a/>
* [[Moab Man|Malachite Man]]: Thought to be from the early [[Cretaceous]]; actually a post-Columbian burial.<ref name=" CoulamOthers1995a">Coulam, NJ, and AR Schroedl (1995) ''The Keystone azurite mine in southeastern Utah.'' Utah Archaeology. 8(1): 1–12.</ref><ref name="Kuban2005aa">Kuban, GJ, (2005) [http://paleo.cc/paluxy/moab-man.htm ''"Moab Man" – "Malachite Man"'']. [http://paleo.cc/paluxy.htm The Paluxy Dinosaur/"Man Track" Controversy.] Retrieved March 8, 2014.</ref>
* [[Nampa figurine]]: Was a clay fired doll found in [[Nampa, Idaho]] during a well drilling. Early dating attempts believed the artifact to be 2 million years old due to the rock layer it was found in.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Whipkey |first=Rockey |date=October 2012 |title=How deep do we dig? The pros and cons of a controversial ceramic figurine |url=https://modrogorje.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Pleistocene-Coalition-september-october-2012-Vesna-Tenodi-Wanjina-Bradshaw-style-rock-art-other-parts-world-prehistory-Aboriginal-petroglyph-universal-symbols-Valcamonica-Sulawesi-megaliths.pdf |journal=Pleistocene Coalition News |volume=4 |issue=3}}</ref> Later assessments found that the artifact was either only a few thousand years old<ref name=":3">{{Cite book |last=Wright |first=George Frederick |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZAlgAAAAIAAJ&dq=nampa+figurine&pg=PR19 |title=Origin and Antiquity of Man |date=1912 |publisher=Bibliotheca sacra Company |pages=268–290 |language=en}}</ref> or a 19th-century Native American doll. Many have criticized the object as a likely hoax.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Lippard |first=Jim |date=1989 |title=Out-of-Order Human Artifacts |url=https://ncse.ngo/files/pub/CEJ/pdfs/CEJ_25.pdf#page=25 |journal=Creation/Evolution |issue=25 |pages=25}}</ref>
* [[Wolfsegg Iron]]: Thought to be from the [[Tertiary]] epoch; actually from an early mining operation. Inaccurately described as a perfect cube.<ref>{{cite book |last=Sagan |first=Carl |title=Carl Sagan's Cosmic Connection |author2=Jerome Agel |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2000 |isbn=0-521-78303-8 |page=206 |author-link=Carl Sagan}}</ref>