In this report, researcher and engineer Alberto Donini reiterates his hypothesis regarding the origin of ‘cart ruts’ – the parallel grooves in rock found in various locations, such as Malta, Turkey and, in Italy, the regions of Puglia and Sardinia. From numerous observations, he concludes that at least some of these are not ruts created in the rocks by Bronze Age wooden carts, or ‘Roman roads’, but traces of ancient means of transport that moved through mud, which subsequently petrified. In this report, he analyses the Morigino skeleton and hypothesises that it is not a statue, but the fossilised skeleton of a woman from around 14 million years ago, and therefore presumably contemporary with the vehicles that created the Cart Ruts. Furthermore, from XRF analysis of the feet, he deduces that the creature was wearing highly technological footwear, which did not undergo fossilisation but retained its original elements, likely a ceramic composite alloy containing silicon, iron and zirconium.
Alberto Donini (Tue,) studied this question.