of the 1985 Reader's Digest Association book Mysteries of the Unexplained. They do not provide any estimate of the age of the Dorchester Pot. The source that they credit for their photograph of the Dorchester Pot is Brad Steiger's Worlds Before Our Own. The photograph is also used in the Falun Gong website "PureInsight", which provides without any explanation an age of 100,000 years for this artifact. Michael Cremo, a well-known Hindu creationist, claims that the Dorchester Pot is evidence for the "presence of artistic metal workers in North America over 600 million years ago." Some Young Earth creationists regard the Dorchester Pot as having been manufactured by an ancient civilization that predated the Noachian Flood. Mainstream views Mainstream archaeologists argue that the Dorchester Pot is neither Ediacaran in age nor even from an ancient, lost civilization. They identify it as being a recognizable historic artifact. Archaeologists Keith Fitzpatrick-Matthews and James Doeser, whose website Bad Archaeology examines fringe archaeology, state that "it is difficult to understand why anyone might take this report seriously" and also identifies the object as "clearly a candlestick of obviously Victorian style... why would anyone in 1852 believe that it was more than a few years old?" Writing in 1964, the Italian debunker Biagio Catalano argued that the "vase" was actually almost identical, as in both shape and decorations, to an Indian pipe-holder stored at the Prince of Wales Museum (now known as Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya) in Bombay. Notes References Fort, Charles H. (1919) The Book of the Damned. New York, New York, Boni and Liveright 228 p. Mentioned on page 128 of Chapter IX and The Book of the Damned by Charles Fort St Rain, Tedd, 2003. Mystery Of America: Enigmatic Mysteries And Anomalous Artifacts Of North America - A Connection To The Ancient Past. Lost Arts Media. PDF (17.6 mb) Pseudoarchaeology History of Boston 1852 in the United States