Artifacts of Prehistory
Artifacts recovered from the Cerro del Toro mountains in the southern highlands of Jalisco, México. Long dismissed as carved forgeries, they have been studied in laboratories as engineered, low-temperature geopolymer ceramics. Select a specimen to view its details.
10,000+Objects in the assemblage
13Specimens in laboratory study
8,570 ± 50Years BP, AMS radiocarbon
Si/Al ≈ 1.00Poly(sialate) framework
Research paper. Trevor Hawke, Prehistoric artifacts of Mesoamerica, anthropological evidence of ET paleocontact (May 2026). The paper covers SEM and EDS microstructure, AMS radiocarbon dating at the University of Georgia CAIS, gamma spectroscopy, and the collection's iconography. Read on Academia →