Ooparts, Out of Place Artifacts, are objects seemingly out of historical context. This includes Klerksdorp spheres described below in the articled reblogged from Archaeology Fantasies:
I’ve seen this article several times now, and I meant to address it the first time, but then I got distracted by something shinny…er I mean work?
Either way, the biggest reason I let it go was that I wasn’t terribly concerned about it. I mean, these things are so obviously geofacts or frauds, who in their right mind would believe them? Then I saw this same article come across my feed on Linked-In, it kinda made me sad. So, to make myself feel better, I will explain why these 10 ‘puzzling’ artifacts are not so puzzling after all.
Sadly, as with a lot of things, it’s easy to put a lie or misinformation out there, it’s twice as difficult to explain why they are wrong. So we’ll be looking at each of these “artifacts” one at a time. Starting with:
The Grooved Spheres
The most common image of the Grooved Spheres
There is a phenomenon in the human brain called Pareidolia. This particular event is what causes us…
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Art Narratives by Cynthia Korzekwa 