Cast, Not Carved · claim GEO-C507 · Mechanism rung · Methodological critiques
Standard archaeological analytical methods (ICP-MS, XRF, NMR, Raman, XRD) systematically miss or misattribute the hydrogen, carbon, and oxygen signal that would distinguish artificial geopolymer or agglomerate stone from natural rock, and default calibrations bake in the natural-stone assumption.
source anchor
Fóti Ch 1, pp ~30–37 (methods table)
independence group: provenance-method-critique — related extractions in this group are not independent evidence
Evidence
No evidence records attached yet — this claim is held on its source anchor alone: the ledger knows where the proposition is stated and has admitted no observation behind it. A source is not evidence.
an honest empty state
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Still missing: plain-language gloss, credibility assessment, diagnosticity assessment, strongest objection, what would change our mind. A claim gains them when an edition features it and the edition's adopted assessment supplies the full treatment — a decision the panel reviews, not a field anyone flips.