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5,000 year-old stone balls continue to baffle archaeologists
http://www.foxnews.com ^ | 6/18/18 | Tom Metcalfe

Posted on 06/18/2018 10:56:29 AM PDT by BBell

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I always thought these were neat.


1 posted on 06/18/2018 10:56:29 AM PDT by BBell
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2 posted on 06/18/2018 10:58:18 AM PDT by BBell (not drinking, just a smart a$$)
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To: BBell

Costa Rica’s balls are bigger.


3 posted on 06/18/2018 10:59:04 AM PDT by hanamizu
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I saw a video about these recently. Some think they may have been a kind of throwing weapon, but nobody really knows. Many of them aren’t made in a way that a rope or string could be fitted around them.


4 posted on 06/18/2018 10:59:06 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: BBell

At least our President has a pair.


5 posted on 06/18/2018 10:59:21 AM PDT by Yaelle
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Wrap some rope around one and sling it and the archaeologist who gets hit with it will realize real quick what they were used for.


6 posted on 06/18/2018 10:59:29 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: BBell

My first thought? Carved projectiles for a catapult.


7 posted on 06/18/2018 11:01:20 AM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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Papyrus weights....They appear to have one flat side.


8 posted on 06/18/2018 11:01:26 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: bgill; Jamestown1630
This would put a hurt on someone. A stone throwing star.


9 posted on 06/18/2018 11:04:43 AM PDT by BBell (not drinking, just a smart a$$)
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To: BBell; Daffynition; Tax-chick

Niels Bohr, please pick up the white courtesy phone.


10 posted on 06/18/2018 11:05:02 AM PDT by Ezekiel (All who mourn(ed!) the destruction of America merit the celebration of her rebirth.)
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To: BBell

Article about the mathematics represented in the spheres:

http://archive.bridgesmathart.org/2014/bridges2014-441.pdf


11 posted on 06/18/2018 11:06:48 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: hanamizu
I've got the biggest.


12 posted on 06/18/2018 11:07:08 AM PDT by BBell (not drinking, just a smart a$$)
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To: Yaelle

I think those might be his ancestors balls.


13 posted on 06/18/2018 11:08:16 AM PDT by CJ Wolf (Free)
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To: BBell

Early golf ball prototypes. Took them a while to figure it out.


14 posted on 06/18/2018 11:09:33 AM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (TRUMP TRAIN !!! Get the hell out of the way if you are not on yet because we don't stop for idiots)
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To: BBell

Aliens. Always aliens. Sheesh.


15 posted on 06/18/2018 11:09:52 AM PDT by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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Nephilim balls. Makes perfect sense. :-)


16 posted on 06/18/2018 11:09:57 AM PDT by ExpatCanuck
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Easy...

They were AMMO.

And bored military guys carved them into neat shapes.


17 posted on 06/18/2018 11:10:17 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare itself.)
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To: Yaelle

Wonder if they could have been used as weights for something in the stone age household...


18 posted on 06/18/2018 11:10:34 AM PDT by Pelham (California, Mexico's socialist colony)
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Well they certainly are not any state Republican’s balls...


19 posted on 06/18/2018 11:10:36 AM PDT by Osage Orange (Whiskey Tango Foxtrot)
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To: SunkenCiv

ping


20 posted on 06/18/2018 11:11:57 AM PDT by BBell (not drinking, just a smart a$$)
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