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Mysterious Stone Spheres Discovered in Ancient Tomb, But What Were They For?
https://www.sciencealert.com ^ | September 16, 2021 | TOM METCALFE

Posted on 09/16/2021 10:45:42 AM PDT by Red Badger

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To: Red Badger

Why stone balls?

Because they hadn’t invented brass yet.


41 posted on 09/16/2021 2:37:10 PM PDT by seowulf (Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos...Will Durant)
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To: Little Ray

They had not invented rubber yet so had to play with stone balls.


42 posted on 09/16/2021 3:38:57 PM PDT by oldasrocks
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To: Red Badger

Bacchi ball?


43 posted on 09/16/2021 3:58:09 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

The first ball bearings. That’s how the pyramids were built.


44 posted on 09/16/2021 4:05:14 PM PDT by refermech
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To: refermech

😮


45 posted on 09/16/2021 4:13:18 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Red Badger

Bowling.


46 posted on 09/16/2021 6:59:43 PM PDT by rxh4n1
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To: Mr. K
Those were not ‘carved’ they came from tumbling in a stream, and someone just kept them because they were interesting.

My friends have a house on one of the Great Lakes that is nicknamed "Boulder Beach". The lake tumbles the rocks there and many of them are roundish.

These ancients may have figured out how to duplicate the process with a "stream tumbler", as you posted.

47 posted on 09/16/2021 8:55:04 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: Red Badger

And in those Days there were Giants in the earth, men of renown

Genesis 6


48 posted on 09/16/2021 9:02:22 PM PDT by Varsity Flight ( "War by the prophesies set before you." I Timothy 1:18)
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Giants who played a game called ‘baseball’ with round smooth stones that they would hurl at one another with great velocity...................


49 posted on 09/17/2021 5:31:07 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: rxh4n1

That’s right up my alley!...............


50 posted on 09/17/2021 6:16:04 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: kiryandil

Or they just found some that were already tumbled


51 posted on 09/17/2021 7:53:45 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself)
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To: Mr. K
Or they just found some that were already tumbled

Right, that's most likely.

What I was thinking about is this:

Hundreds of similar stone balls, each about the size of a baseball, have been found at Neolithic sites mainly in Scotland and the Orkney Islands, but also in England, Ireland, and Norway, Live Science previously reported.

52 posted on 09/17/2021 8:00:51 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: Red Badger

It’s me of these;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onbZemb4CmQ


53 posted on 09/17/2021 2:28:20 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (`)
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"Mysterious Stone Spheres Discovered in Ancient Tomb, But What Were They For?

Scottish ancestor of the Toledo scale?
54 posted on 09/17/2021 9:40:01 PM PDT by clearcarbon (Fraudulent elections have consequences.)
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult

Which one are you? The girl, the boy or the dead guy?................


55 posted on 09/20/2021 5:34:30 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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