Ideology and forgery: The Deventer bones
Peter Pieper|Thijs J. Maarleveld|A. J. T. Jull
Forensic-science investigations have shown that the engravings on bones from Deventer collection of National Museum Antiquities in Leiden, The Netherlands, appear to be very suspect. Neither pictorial Bronze-Age or Carolingian style, nor runes, show any signs weathering decomposition. Research into Dutch archives has also indicated ideological motivation for these apparent forgeries and majority seem been copied directly a Nazi magazine, ‘Hamer’, early 1940s. In order resolve definitely question whether are real faked, we measured radiocarbon age themselves. These results showed oldest bone dates Middle Ages others less than few hundred years old. This confirmed cannot as old they were purported be. noteworthy case forgery which had presupposed certain ideology should interest forensic scientist.
Forensic Science International