Israeli Archaeologists Solve Mystery of Prehistoric Stone Balls

Haaretz ^ | April 16, 2020 | Ariel David

[mountn man]

[dfwgator]

[SuperLuminal]

The main implication of this find is that hitlary klintoon is a lot older than we suspected...

She's had lock boxes everywhere and every-when...

[TnTnTn]

Sounds like a lot of wasted work when any semi pointed rock would do the same thing...probable currency....

[dp0622]

This one is too easy :-)

[BenLurkin]

Good question!

[Trillian]

hehe

[DannyTN]

so Salad Fork, Fork, Knife, Spoon, Stone Ball

[Bonemaker]

"Israeli Archaeologists Solve Mystery of Prehistoric Stone Balls" I can relate!😎

[Clutch Martin]

“I hope next they’ll feel free to explain this found all over the World”

Even in Australia?
The bow and arrow and the frame drum (membrane stretched over a round wooden frame) are found the world over but not in Australia.

[PIF]

Lots of use of words like “assumption” “speculation” “possible”, in other words, they have some ideas, but they still know nothing. Lots of guessing. Worse they admit their theory in not universal to “balls” found elsewhere.

Besides these crude “balls”, I seem to remember seeing ones that were quite large, smooth, finished, and very numerous - as well as unexplained.

[Basket_of_Deplorables]

Ancient, long ago tribe of Trumpians?

[SunkenCiv]

Those are Haaretz' words. Possible/probable are always quite appropriate in an archaeological setting, unless it turns out there were surveillance cameras and recorders in the paleolithic.

[Deaf Smith]

The puzzling question of Pi since the beginning of mankind.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Now, an international team of archaeologists led by Tel Aviv University archaeologist researcher Ella Assaf, has produced evidence that these enigmatic artifacts were used for a very specific purpose: breaking the bones of large animals to extract the nutritious marrow inside.

Yeah.

No.

You can break open a bone, even of a large animal with any decent sized rock. There is no reason spend time chipping out a round ball shape when you be making cord, collecting food, fire wood, preparing leather or any number of other tasks.

[polymuser]

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

“I hope next they’ll feel free to explain this found all over the World:”

Same thing bigger version.

Go Biblical: “And there were Giants in those days...”

They needed it for stuff like!

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Brontosaurus_Yale_Peabody_cropped.jpg/375px-Brontosaurus_Yale_Peabody_cropped.jpg

:)

[dp0622]

lol

I think sunkenciv gets a kick out of the funny comments as much as anybody.

He’s a great sport.

And his threads are actually fascinating.

[PIF]

unless it turns out there were surveillance cameras and recorders in the paleolithic

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and you thought those were new inventions ...

[PIF]

The puzzling question of Pi since the beginning of mankind.
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The movie The Life of Pi was quite good