Forced to confess after being caught in the act recently on film, apparently after colleagues tipped off the press, Mr. Fujimura apologized to his professional peers and to the public for having frequently planted artifacts during his career, both near this town and elsewhere in Japan.
He says that these were the only times he had ever planted artifacts.
Generally speaking, first-order entities are physical objects such as animals, people, plants, artifacts, e.g., dog, woman, tulip, and car.
The glyphs themselves are outlines of human, animal, plant, artifact and geometric forms.
Some spatula handles carry abstract designs, but most represent human figures, animals, plants, and artifacts, thus showing much that is important in Massim culture.
The site also contains bas-relief sculptures sporting powerful animal imagery, including jaguars, condors, and snakes; images of hallucinogenic plants; and artifacts of the tools used to prepare them for consumption.
By contrast, infants who saw the behind-the-ear action picked randomly -- meaning that babies don't generally prefer plants over artifacts.
Or someone more recently could have deliberately planted the artifact in the buried ruins to confound archaeologists.
The game is won after the player successfully plants an artifact on the Crystal Planet's surface and retreats back into space, causing the planet to explode, though the game can still be played after the Crystal Planet is destroyed.
A plaque above the kitchen door of his house proclaimed: "Eugene Von Bruenchenhein, Free Lance Artist, Poet and Sculptor, inovator, Arrow maker and Plant man, Bone artifacts constructor, Photographer and Architect, Philosopher".
