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¡Hello!
I'm going to try to make you to understand me, because I don't speak English very well: I'd be glad for receiving some help from you; my grand father found a fossil in Puente Nacional (Santander, Colombia, South America). Accordance with my grand father's research, the fossil is a human brain. Its morphology is like a current Hommosapiens' brain, but it's bigger. Its color is dark gray. Weight 5610 grs. It's 19'300.000 years old, which would be amazing. I have some fossil's pictures in one of my computer's files, but I don't know how to send them to you with this message. I have more data about it. If you can help me or tell me to talk about with anyone else, please let me know it. I hope you had been able to understand me. I also hope to receive an answer from you as soon as possible. Last of all, I'd like to tell you that I'm writing you because this subject could be very interesting for you. Thank you very much for your help.
Jorge García.

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Jorge,  Thank you for contacting me.  What you have written to me is rather interesting and I would be very interested in seeing the pictures.  If you could send them via email.  You may send them to the following address and I will provide you with an evaluation and recommendation.

Send the pictures to rsalier@hotmail.com
In the subject line put in "fossil from Colombia" so that I can recognize your email.  I am restricted to no more than 2 megabite files so before you send big files you may want to "zip" the file.

Please tell me in what conditions this was found.  Was it found in a cave, buried in the ground, on the top of a mountian?  

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Ralph Salier

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Archaeologist for the last 30 years. Norh American generalist and Hopwell culture/Red Ocher culture specifically. Lithics Expert and Ground Stone tools.

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Numerous museums in US and Canada. Several University Anthropology Departments.

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