How were Dinosaur fossils only discovered in the 1800’s? Did no one prior to this time period come across them?
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While studying history, we had a commented visit of an archeological museum showing false discoveries. One of them were roman thunderstones.
Roman farmers found stone hatchet blades in their field. Since they did not have the context of where those came from, they thought it was thunder that brought them and they were Jupiter tool to send thunder.
They were conserved as such. Later archeologists identified them as primitive tools used by people living there way before.
[Here](https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Cerauniae-thunderbolts-found-in-Sweden-The-original-image-published-in-Ole-Worms_fig4_26851451) is an article that talks about similar occurences, because that happened a lot.
Short version : people found stuff but did not know what they were.
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