Mysterious rock depicted in 15th century painting is likely a Stone Age tool
What an odd thing to claim and publish, and the wikipedia article is already updated with these spurious &quot;findings&quot;.  That qualifies as suspicious.  The actual position taken by these &quot;archeologists&quot; from their paper about a &quot;modern social history of prehistoric handaxes&quot; is quite a reach.<p>The rock does not look like the flat head of any axe, nor does a &quot;prehistoric stone tool&quot; bear any meaning whatsoever in the context of the image.  In fact the rock resembles fragments of meteorite.  Perhaps all the supposed &quot;ancient handaxes&quot; are really from a more recent meteoric event.  That would be quite a thrust against prehistorical man narratives made up by archeologists.<p>Oh, people really called these supposed axes &quot;thunderstones&quot; before the advent of modern archeology claimed they are tools of prehistoric man.  Yet these &quot;researchers&quot; claim a painting proves that 15th century people already thought the rocks were ancient handaxes despite contrary evidence, in other words that what archeologists made up was already well know; so it must be true after all, how convenient.  But that is tautological: provide a theory based on a painting and claim the painting is evidence the theory is correct.