Editing Out-of-place artifact (section)

== Modern-day creations, forgeries and hoaxes ==
{{Main|Archaeological forgery}}
[[File:Babylonokia.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''[[Babylonokia]]'']]
* ''[[Babylonokia]]'': A clay tablet shaped like a [[mobile phone]] and created as an artwork in 2012. [[Fringe scientist]]s and [[alternative archaeology]] proponents subsequently misrepresented a photograph of the artwork as showing an 800-year-old archaeological find. The story was popularised in a video on the YouTube channel ''Paranormal Crucible'' and led to the object being reported by some press sources as a mystery.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Evon |first1=Dan |title=FALSE: 800-Year-Old Alien Cellphone Found |url=http://www.snopes.com/alien-cellphone-found/ |accessdate=3 January 2017 |website=snopes|date=4 January 2016 }}</ref>
* [[Acámbaro figures]]: Mid-20th-century [[figurine]]s of [[dinosaur]]s, attributed by [[Waldemar Julsrud]] to an ancient society.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Isaak |first=M. |title=The Counter-Creationism Handbook |publisher=University of California Press |year=2007 |isbn=978-0520249264 |pages=362 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Calaveras Skull]]: A human skull found by miners in [[Calaveras County, California]], which was purported to prove that humans, mastodons, and elephants had coexisted in prehistoric California. It was later revealed to be a hoax.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Taylor |first=R. E. |author2=Payen, Louis A. |author3=Slota, Peter J. Jr |date=April 1992 |title=The Age of the Calaveras Skull: Dating the "Piltdown Man" of the New World. |journal=American Antiquity |volume=57 |issue=2 |pages=269–275 |doi=10.2307/280732 |jstor=280732 |s2cid=162187935}}</ref>
* [[Cardiff Giant]]: A 19th-century hoax of a ten-foot-tall supposedly petrified man exhibited as a giant from biblical times. Quickly debunked by experts, and by the confession of the forger,<ref>{{Cite news |date=1869-12-13 |title=An Alleged Revelation by Hull, the Giant Maker |pages=2 |work=Buffalo Morning Express |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/68874501/an-alleged-revelation-by-hull-the/ |access-date=2023-01-25}}</ref> it was nonetheless a popular marvel of the day.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Rose |first1=Mark |date=November–December 2005 |title=When Giants Roamed the Earth |url=https://archive.archaeology.org/0511/etc/giants.html |journal=Archeology |publisher=Archaeological Institute of America |volume=58 |issue=6 |access-date=September 11, 2020}}</ref>
* [[Crystal skull]]s: Supposedly demonstrate more advanced stone-cutting skill than was previously known from pre-Columbian Mesoamerica. Appear to have been made in the 19th century.<ref>{{cite book |title=Scientific Investigation of Copies, Fakes and Forgeries |publisher=[[Butterworth-Heinemann]] |year=2009 |isbn=978-0750642057 |location=Oxford, UK and Burlington, MA |oclc=127107601|page=415|author=Craddock, Paul}}</ref>
* [[Gosford Glyphs]]: A collection of [[Egyptian hieroglyphs]] on the [[Central Coast (New South Wales)|Central Coast]], Australia, that have been dismissed as a hoax by authorities and academics after their discovery in the 1970s.<ref name="ABC">{{cite web |date=14 December 2012 |title=Egyptologist debunks new claims about 'Gosford glyphs' |url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-12-14/glyphs-reax/4428134 |access-date=7 December 2014 |work=ABC News}}</ref>
* [[Ica stones]]: Depict [[Inca]] dinosaur-hunters, [[surgery]], and other modern or fanciful topics. Collected by Javier Cabrera Darquea, who claimed them to be prehistoric. Later revealed to be a forgery created by a local farmer.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2008-08-27 |title=Jurassic library - The Ica Stones {{!}} Articles {{!}} Features {{!}} Fortean Times UK |url=http://forteantimes.com/features/articles/259/jurassic_library_the_ica_stones.html |access-date=2022-11-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080827173630/http://forteantimes.com/features/articles/259/jurassic_library_the_ica_stones.html |archive-date=2008-08-27 }}</ref> 
* [[Japanese Paleolithic hoax]]: Perpetrated by discredited amateur archaeologist [[Shinichi Fujimura]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Oda Shizuo's 1985 Criticisms |url=http://www.t-net.ne.jp/~keally/Hoax/oda1985.html |access-date=2022-12-03 |website=www.t-net.ne.jp}}</ref>
* [[Kensington Runestone]]: A [[runestone]] purportedly unearthed in 1898 in [[Kensington, Minnesota]] entangled in the roots of a tree. Runologists have dismissed the inscription's authenticity on linguistic evidence, while geologists disagree as to whether the stone shows weathering that would indicate a medieval date.<ref name="White">{{cite web |title=Calcite Weathering and the Age of the Kensington Rune Stone Inscription (Lightning Post) |url=https://www.andywhiteanthropology.com/blog/calcite-weathering-and-the-age-of-the-kensington-rune-stone-inscription-lightning-post |website=Andy White Anthropology |access-date=24 May 2019 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Los Lunas Decalogue Stone]]: Supposedly made by pre-Columbian Israelite visitors to the Americas. Generally believed to be a modern-day hoax.<ref>Feder (2011, pp. 159-62).</ref>
* [[Michigan relics]]: Supposedly ancient artifacts which have been alleged as proof that people of an ancient [[Near East]]ern culture had lived in the U.S. state of [[Michigan]]; they are [[archaeological forgery|archaeological forgeries]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Ashurst-McGee |first=Mark |date=2001 |title=Mormonism's Encounter with the Michigan Relics |url=https://byustudies.byu.edu/content/mormonisms-encounter-with-michigan-relics |journal=BYU Studies |volume=40 |issue=3 |pages=178 |doi= |id=}}</ref>
* [[Newark Holy Stones]]: Hoax "artifacts" used as extremely unlikely evidence that [[Hebrew people]]s lived in the Precolumbian Americas.<ref>{{Cite web|title= CONCLUSIVE PROOF THAT THE NEWARK DECALOGUE STONE IS A FORGERY (AND NOT A VERY GOOD ONE AT THAT) | url= https://www.ohiohistory.org/conclusive-proof-that-the-newark-decalogue-stone-is-a-forgery-and-not-a-very-good-one-at-that/ | author = Lepper, Bradley | date= 12 December 2014 | publisher= Ohio History Connection | accessdate=31 January 2023 }}</ref>
* [[Piltdown Man]]: Supposedly skull parts from a "missing link" hominid, but exposed as an elaborate hoax 41 years after its "discovery".<ref>[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,823171,00.html End as a Man. ''Time Magazine'' 30 Nov 1953] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101030234043/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0%2C9171%2C823171%2C00.html|date=30 October 2010}} retrieved 11 November 2010</ref>
* [[Tucson artifacts]]: Thirty-one lead objects that Charles E. Manier and his family found in 1924 near Picture Rocks, Arizona, which were initially thought by some to be created by early [[Mediterranean civilization]]s that had crossed the Atlantic in the first century, but were later determined to be a hoax.<ref name="Thompson">{{Cite journal |last=Thompson, Raymond H. |year=2004 |title=Glimpses of the Young Emil Haury |journal=Journal of the Southwest |volume=46 |issue=1}}</ref>