oopart

English

Etymology

Abbreviation of "out of place artifact".

Noun

oopart (plural ooparts)

  1. (among conspiracy theorists) An object found in a very unusual or apparently impossible archaeological context (like the Coso sparkplug found in an allegedly 500,000-year-old geode) which would challenge conventional historiography and chronology if authentic.
    • 1989, From Eternity to Eternity: The Song of Eternity →ISBN, page 57:
      "Out-Of-Place-Artifacts." These ooparts are artifacts or objects that archeologists have found in digging into ancient civilizations and that appear to be out-of-place […]
    • 2001, Rene Noorbergen, Secrets of the Lost Races: New Discoveries →ISBN, page 2:
      In many cases, the technical sophistication of the ooparts extends far beyond the inventive capabilities of the ancient peoples among whose remains they were discovered.

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