by
Graham Pick
A half billion year old hammer embedded in rock that formed 400 million years ago. In June 1936 Max Hahn and his wife Emma were on a walk beside a waterfall near to London, Texas, when they noticed a rock with wood protruding from its core. They decided to take the oddity home and later cracked it open with a hammer and a chisel. What they found within shocked the archaeological and scientific community. Embedded in the rock was what appeared to be some type of ancient man made hammer.
A team of archaeologists analyzed and
dated it. The rock encasing the hammer was dated to more than 400
million years old. The hammer itself turned out to be more than 500
million years old. Additionally, a section of the wooden handle had
begun the metamorphosis into coal. The hammer’s head, made of more than
96% iron, is far more pure than anything nature could have achieved
without assistance from relatively modern smelting methods.
This find and others has been and still is hotly debated among archaeologists/anthropologists. 
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