Researchers are documenting divine polydactyly across ancient cultures. Dr. Richard Barnett's posthumous paper sparked interest, while Patricia Crown studied Chaco Canyon and Gabriel Warble identified supernatural polydactyly at Paquimé. Professor Necmi Karul found a 16-fingered statue at Karahan Tepe, where humanoids never have five fingers. Fascinating patterns!
Academic studies document divine polydactyly across ancient cultures worldwide
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Key facts
- Dr. Richard Barnett, a British Museum archaeologist and former Bletchley Park codebreaker, wrote the posthumous paper 'Extra Digits in Art and Archaeology in the Ancient World' which stated the phenomenon had received no attention from scholars
- Patricia Crown (University of New Mexico) documented divine polydactyly at Chaco Canyon in 2015
- Gabriel Warble of Michigan State led a team identifying 'supernatural divine polydactyly' (not kingly) at Paquimé (Casas Grandes) in Mexico
- Three distinct cultural clusters have been identified as treating polydactyly as a divine attribute: the American Southwest, Mesoamerica (Toltec, Teotihuacan, Wakan, Paquimé), and Paracas in South America
- A 9,000-year-old Neolithic shaman burial was unearthed in Jerusalem associated with extra-digit iconography
- Divinized ancestor statues at Ain Ghazal in Jericho are depicted with extra digits in their iconography
- A 16-fingered statue was discovered at Karahan Tepe in excavations led by Professor Necmi Karul
- Professor Karul noted that the humanoids at Karahan Tepe always have strange numbers of fingers, never five
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