Fossil Teapot

Fossils have always been hard to explain, animal and plant parts encased in rock. How did they get there? Not much progress was made until the geologist just before Darwin speculated the the world wasn't just thousands of years old, but millions and maybe billions of years old. This concept of "deep time" provided the time for a very slow process to produce fossils. No culture got it right until the early 1800s.

So for many cultures they just put together stories that didn't conflict with their own creation myths. Using fossils as a decorative rock would seem to have a contemplative effect. How did they get there? No answers were correct until the concept of "deep time".


These are pictures of a teapot I bought in Taiwan 20 years ago.

And here is a snuff bottle Florence saw last year at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

I believe they are all made from the rock similar to what we saw at the JianSan

Fossil museum.

http://mikeintaipei.blogspot.com/2012/03/jiasian-fossil-museum.html