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Watch the Disinformation Proliferate: "Coast to Coast AM" Uses Photo of Different Sword

12/19/2015

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PictureScreenshot of sword story on "Coast to Coast AM:" that's not the Nova Scotia sword.
Swordgate keeps getting better and better. 


An alert member of the Facebook group Fraudulent Archaeology Wall of Shame just shared a link to a Coast to Coast AM story about Pulitzer's sword claim.  The story repeats much of what is in the Boston Standard article (at least the last time I checked), but uses an image of different sword.

​Great job, fringe media!
​

The sword shown looks nothing like the alleged Nova Scotia sword, but surely was chosen because it actually looks like a Roman sword. It will be fun to watch and see if that photo now begins to represent the Nova Scotia sword as the story gets echoed around the internet.

10 Comments
Bob Jase
12/19/2015 09:59:25 am

Thanks to J. Hutton I no longer have to go to Cracked.com for my daily laughs.

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James White
12/19/2015 10:13:24 am

This is not the same sword that is making the news.Also,that report that Jabon is making gas not been verified, and is most likely proven false.Not true.nonsense.

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sword skeptic
12/19/2015 10:36:47 am

The sword in the Coast to Coast AM article is a replica of a European sword of the Viking period.

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Peter Geuzen
12/19/2015 01:13:19 pm

Apologies if these points have been covered here or elsewhere already but with only so much time to squeeze this in, and for the sake of the growing Google rank and follow to this site/blog, I give you the following:

Firstly, regarding Berberis vulgaris, and the claims that because it’s in Nova Scotia it must mean Romans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berberis_vulgaris

“In the United States and Canada, it has become established in the wild over an area from Nova Scotia to Nebraska, with additional populations in Colorado, Idaho, Washington State, Montana, and British Columbia”

Therefore, Romans have also travelled to Nebraska, Colorado, Idaho, Washington State, Montana, and British Columbia, as well as Nova Scotia.

Secondly, and I quote directly from the original Boston Standard article: “The Roman shield 'boss' which the report claims was found in Nova Scotia”....I don’t think so:

http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=1363361&partId=1&searchText=shield+boss&object=20451&page=4

Property of the British Museum, EXCAVATED (had to do something in all caps) in Kirkham UK

BaBoom, with I assume copyright infringement on the picture as well.

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Gary
12/19/2015 04:58:18 pm

More evidence of Romans in Nova Scotia:
http://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurants-g154976-c31-Halifax_Halifax_Region_Nova_Scotia.html

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Peter Geuzen
12/19/2015 05:57:04 pm

Debunking the Boston Standard picture annotated as “The Mi'kmaq petroglyph showing what some believe to be Roman legionnaires marching”, is actually too easy. It`s probably just a glyph of a daily life group or family unit of Mi`kmaq. Virtually all native indigenous cultures developed and used spears for fishing and hunting, and would have used poles for traversing and navigating rivers and shallows, and of course used poles for wig-wam construction. Multiple specific Mi’kmaq culture examples are shown below. The best in this list is the last. By the late 1800s they were making hockey sticks. The so called glyph has exactly six figures in it – centre, right wing, left wing, 2 defensemen, and the goalie - the ancient starting line up of the first Mi’kmaq hockey team! You can`t get more Canadian than that.

Preparing to go fishing
http://www.muiniskw.org/images/pgCulture1c_SpearFishing.jpg
http://www.muiniskw.org/pgCulture1c.htm

A Mi'kmaq Wigwam used by Hunters and Trappers Early in the 20th Century
http://www.heritage.nf.ca/articles/aboriginal/images/mikmaq-wigwam.jpg
http://www.heritage.nf.ca/articles/aboriginal/mikmaq-culture.php

Micmac Indians Poling a Canoe Up a Rapid, Oromocto Lake, New Brunswick.
http://data2.collectionscanada.gc.ca/e/e040/e000996313.jpg
https://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/pam_archives/public_mikan/index.php?fuseaction=genitem.displayItem&lang=eng&rec_nbr=2838369&rec_nbr_list=2838369

Mik'maq (Micmac) women seated in front on their wigwams.
http://data2.archives.ca/ap/a/a194632k.jpg
https://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/pam_archives/public_mikan/index.php?fuseaction=genitem.displayItem&lang=eng&rec_nbr=3533238&rec_nbr_list=3533238

Interior of a Wig-wam.
http://data2.archives.ca/ap/c/c103533k.jpg
https://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/pam_archives/public_mikan/index.php?fuseaction=genitem.displayItem&lang=eng&rec_nbr=2837767&rec_nbr_list=2837767

Micmac Indians, painting by an anonymous artist, circa 1820
https://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/021013/f1/nlc008726-v6.jpg
https://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/settlement/kids/021013-150-e.php?uid=021013-nlc008726&uidc=recKey

Mi'kmaq encampment, Sydney, Cape Breton Island
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/57/Micmac_camp.jpg

A Mi'kmaq tribe in Labrador
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/No53p253_micmacs-e02-tribus_indigene_du_labrador.jpg/1280px-No53p253_micmacs-e02-tribus_indigene_du_labrador.jpg

Preparing to go fishing
http://www.muiniskw.org/images/pgCulture1c_SpearFishing.jpg
http://www.muiniskw.org/pgCulture1c.htm

Mi'kmaq making hockey sticks from hornbeam trees (Ostrya virginiana) in Nova Scotia about 1890
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Mikmac-hockey-sticks.jpg

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Mike Jones
12/20/2015 08:10:19 am

Thanks for the images, Peter. These are great!

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ghettohillbilly1
2/1/2016 05:57:03 pm

speaking of natives I had to laugh that mr expert thought the natives in saying (the caves where people put things) were talking about Oak Island when there's the the ovens caves around the corner... couldnt have been the caves that are there now that wouldnt make sense

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Mike Jones
12/20/2015 08:16:33 am

It is amazing to me how fringe theorists will bend over backwards to interpret something to fit their paradigm. The simplest and most logical interpretation of the petroglyph is native peoples carrying spears or fishing gear. It takes a remarkable twist of "logic" to interpret that as Romans. Why not aliens or Mummers or Mardi Gras Indians?

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Peter Geuzen
12/21/2015 10:51:35 am

Here's another one, but way cooler looking :)

http://www.examiner.com/article/a-sword-discovered-near-oak-island-suggests-the-romans-discovered-america

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