The Nampa figurine (also known as the Nampa Image or the Nampa Doll) is a 1.5-inch (38 mm) fired clay doll found near Nampa, Idaho, in 1889. The figurine has been dyed red, possibly due to iron oxide deposition, and depicts a female figure with jewelry and clothing. The artifact has been the subject of substantial controversy over its apparent age. While scholarly consensus today holds that the doll is a hoax, initial estimates of the artifact placed its age at 2 million years old, significantly outdating any other clay artifacts and humanity's arrival in the Americas.

While archeologists have debated whether the figurine was a hoax or not, the consensus is that the artifact is not 2 million years old. Archeologists George Frederick Wright, William Henry Holmes, and Keith Fitzpatrick-Matthews have argued that the object descended rapidly due to a geological phenomenon or was displaced by the drilling mechanism that originally uncovered the figurine. Wrigh...Read more

The Nampa figurine (also known as the Nampa Image or the Nampa Doll) is a 1.5-inch (38 mm) fired clay doll found near Nampa, Idaho, in 1889. The figurine has been dyed red, possibly due to iron oxide deposition, and depicts a female figure with jewelry and clothing. The artifact has been the subject of substantial controversy over its apparent age. While scholarly consensus today holds that the doll is a hoax, initial estimates of the artifact placed its age at 2 million years old, significantly outdating any other clay artifacts and humanity's arrival in the Americas.

While archeologists have debated whether the figurine was a hoax or not, the consensus is that the artifact is not 2 million years old. Archeologists George Frederick Wright, William Henry Holmes, and Keith Fitzpatrick-Matthews have argued that the object descended rapidly due to a geological phenomenon or was displaced by the drilling mechanism that originally uncovered the figurine. Wright, whilst being a strong proponent of the object's validity, estimated the age in terms of thousands of years. Wright's support of the Nampa figurine's genuineness has been heavily criticized as being religiously motivated. Daniel Garrison Brinton and John W. Powell argued the artifact was a 19th-century doll made by the Pocatello Indians, with modern-day archeologists holding the belief the artifact was a hoax. Members of the Pocatello Native American tribe have also affirmed the figurine was a hoax. Due to the controversy surrounding the artifact's age, many conspiracy theories have arisen around the artifact's origin.

The figurine was found in Nampa, Idaho in July 1889 by Mark A. Kurtz, a local businessman. Kurtz and his business partners were drilling for water, hitting a depth of 320 feet (98 m) while lining the bore hole as they went.[1] Once the drill had penetrated through the basalt layer, approximately 60 feet deep, the men transitioned to a pump mechanism to remove the quicksand and ceased drilling.[2] Following this, the drill pump brought the figure to the surface whilst removing the sand layer at 261 to 301 feet (80 to 92 m) deep.[3][4] Charles Francis Adams Jr. alongside a team of archeologists were contacted to perform the initial dating of the artifact.[1]

Due to this find, in 1929, a formal archeological survey of the site was performed by Louis Schellbach with support from the Museum of the American Indian and the Heye Foundation.[5] The figurine is now housed in the Idaho State Historical Society Museum.[6]

^ a b Wright, G. Frederick (1913). "Dr Matthew on Wright's Origin and Antiquity of Man". American Anthropologist. 15 (4): 703–707. doi:10.1525/aa.1913.15.4.02a00120. ISSN 0002-7294. JSTOR 659730. ^ Winchell, Newton Horace (1899). The American Geologist. Geological Publishing Company. ^ Cite error: The named reference :0 was invoked but never defined (see the help page). ^ Geologic Atlas of the United States. 1904. Nampa Folio, No. 103. U.S. Geological Survey. ^ Meatte, Daniel (1990). "Prehistory of the Western Snake River Basin". History of Archaeological Research: 21–38. Archived from the original on 2021-04-10. Retrieved 2022-09-27. ^ Erickson, Courtnie (2022-07-18). "The Unique Figurine In Idaho That Still Baffles Archaeologists To This Day". OnlyInYourState. Archived from the original on 2022-07-22. Retrieved 2022-09-27.
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