(1) knife wound, top left hemisphere parietal to occipital, all the way through the occipital calcarine fissure and gyri
(2) Interhemispheric fissure including great vein of Galen and frontal,
(3) Venous cavernous : Confluence of the sinuses,
precentral venous cavernous,
(4) frontal sinus
(5) Superior sagittal sinus, Not shown) has been displaced
(6) Thumb depression from original handling
The movement visible is where sulchi and gyri were retraced to their original positions. They were obviously moved as is extremely visible on the actual specimen due to external pressure as would be common in soft form from handling. This is absolutely not an occurance post rigidity.
Apparent spear wound, enters top and exits bottom.
Compression due to handling in excisement. Specimen shows track clearly from tip of right thumb to end of right index finger.
This area, right frontal lobe, actually has virtually identical compression as left frontal. X-rays reveal this, ( compliments of Ivey Cooper, LLC., and Chattanooga Imaging Center).
this is the area of gyrus movement.
X-rays also reveal there is actually a curve in from both left and right in the middle of the front of the interhemispheric fissure.
Actual physical examination of specimen reveals many more left / right symmetries.
Fresh meat, just sliced and ready to be cooked?
No, this is actual coloration and appearance of an area that appears to have been cut when it was soft.
----------------------------------That area is here.
Above image is closeup.
In reality, this area is layered and curves outward, like slices.
In geology, this is called shists, which means metamorphic rocks that have a highly developed tendancy to split into layers, like platy materials.
Microcrystalline silica does not have this tendancy or ability.
One reason is it has no cleavage, only conchoidal fracture.
Please keep in mind as you research these pages, that as large as this website is, it still contains only a portion of the images, tests, documentation and comparisons this specimen has been subjected to.
Firsthand visual inspection is almost always met with amazement.
Images just do not do it justice.
Bottom photo of a brain
cisterna magma
basal plate
alar plate
anterior spinal artery
spinal ganglion
cerebellum folaie
roof plate (fourth ventricle)
floor plate, s. lumitans (shifted in decapitation)
dorsal horn
ventral horn
bottom view of calcarine ridge, sulchus and gyrus
Spinal cord with myelin sheath
optic chiasma is here, just out of the photo
Pedunclar cistern of the pons
hole I drilled, was not here
cisterna magna
This image is not extremely good, partly because of the crystallization utilized in the fossilization process.
This shows up better under UV light, which I will be displaying soon.
Another reason is, during true petrification, the process many times chooses mineral types and even colors as closely consistent with the original biological specimen as is available to it.
We must remember, as fine as this fossil is, I often times hear, " but it doesn't look exactly like it".
The same can be said for every fossil on earth.
I would remind you, this is a brain that has been replaced by minerals.
It went through some of the most severe trauma ever conceived before it began it's petrification process, and then went through a process of putrification, freezing, covering for some extended period of time, and cellular replacement with crystallized silicates.
In this area, the coloration is almost perfect in comparison with the same area of a human brain.
The image comparison has been enhanced for identification, but this petrified image is not enhanced.
Please note:
You see very little of the cerebellum.
It was excised during decapitation, as is evident in the x-rays and also by being able to locate the point of excisement as being at the base of the tentorium notch, directly below the calcarine gyrus.
This approximates the serrations to be at the pedunclear cistern of the pons.
All this precisely correlates with the visual research.
Are those embedded fingerprints? Yep, I do believe they are the only embedded human fingerprints in a fossil in the world.
Well, not really...the reality is there are many others on this petrified specimen!
More images of this towards the bottom of the page.
Fingerprint as clear as if it was handled yesterday in soft form!
UUUUH...What kind of a petrified critter is this?
Unfortunately, it no longer exists, due to someone...me...listening to inappropriate advice.
This was inside one of the two maggot holes in the frontal lobe.
I destroyed it.
That burrough is here, very, very small. I was in the early stages of determining the validity of this specimen, and enlarged this opening, thus destroying the bug looking creature.
This image is sideways to help identify the locale of this subject.
Actual location is frontal lobe area near top of specimen. This particular scenario is difficult to envision without seeing the specimen firsthand.
Did you ever play with a piece of caramel when you were a kid? squeezing it several times until it became really soft and pliable?
That is when you notice the fingerprints you leave in the caramel.
This image greatly reminds me of that very scenario, except this print is embedded in a material, (silica) that is harder than hardened steel!
Bullet entrance
You would have to see this fossil firsthand to be able to appreciate what you are seeing here.
Thumb indentation and thumb print of person who held this brain after excisement
They tell you that blood can't petrify.
They say it dries up.
this blood dried hard and crusty, then petrified onto this specimen .
Impossible?
Yeah, I know.
A lot of "impossibles" happened here.
This, without a doubt, is the boldest fossil in the world, breaking literally all the fossilization "rules" known to man.
This depicts the silty situation as was on this before it was cleaned.
It obviously was covered with sand and silt.
Flocculus of cerebellum
Top Photo
THE HOLE NEAR THE INK PEN WAS NOT THERE. iT WAS CREATED BY ME TO CHECK THE HARDNESS OF THE MATERIAL. WHEN I FIRST STARTED RESEARCHING IT.
