5,000 year-old stone balls continue to baffle archaeologists

FoxNews.com/Science ^ | June 18, 2018 | Tom Metcalfe, Live Science Contributor

[freepertoo]

The stone in the first pic has a Princess Leia hairdo.

[vespa300]

>>>His are pure brass<<<

Yeah.....unreal. Greatest President ever......

[ETL]

Lol! You got it!

[ETL]

What the hell is THAT?

What the hell IS that?

[MS.BEHAVIN]

Who the heck put that durn thing there?
What the hell IS that?

Thanks for your post, I love it!

[Daffynition]

If you're in the wrong EZ-PASS lane, that's what they send out now to get you to move to the correct lane. Gov. Cuomo's idea.;)

[Candor7]

Looks like we have duplicate posts as you say.

So here is my duplicate on this thread, LOL:

However they came about, tektites or no, these are weapons. I am pretty certain of that. All of the shapes I have seen are mountable on wooden shafts or hafts as in a club.If they are smaller, they could be mounted on arrow projectiles.Also they would have been used as Slings of David ammunition.

You can see similar objects here:

https://ca.images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;?p=native%20american%20stone%20clubs

AND

http://www.lithiccastinglab.com/gallery-pages/2014marchaxestylespage1.htm

The decorative ones would have had ceremonial significance as well as being weapons, for offering animals on altars as well as battle items.The Celts had no hesitation about putting gods into their arms, such as Scathach ( Pron. Skyah).

A lot of controversy surrounding the geology. Some would have been made from Tektites, but most would have involved rounded beach stones incised over time both before and after battles, IMHO. The decorative grooves and incisions would be there to collect power and store it in the weapon.These are high tech weapons of protection and destruction as it was back then.

Just imagine cranially whacking a cobber with a club with these at the head. Even just a 1 pound stone, mounted on the end of a three foot shaft would crack a skull wide open.The more blood in the grooved patterns, the more power the weapon would be gathering.

[Fred Nerks]

I wasn’t suggesting the items were actual tektites, or pollen, or concretions, just trying to show how the shapes of all of them are similar, thus it might make sense they were all shaped by the same (then) natural forces which shaped the entire landscape.
Buried in the soil, man picked them up, used those that were useful for what-ever purpose, and decorated some. The decorations are an indication of WHEN some were decorated, not when they were created.