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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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1 posted on 09/16/2021 10:45:42 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

Clackers. 🙂


2 posted on 09/16/2021 10:47:12 AM PDT by jacknhoo ( Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation. )
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Strawberries


3 posted on 09/16/2021 10:47:28 AM PDT by butlerweave
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4 posted on 09/16/2021 10:48:54 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)
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To: jacknhoo

“Clackers”

Showin’ your age there bro. Lol


5 posted on 09/16/2021 10:49:13 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: Red Badger

They are hammer stones for shaping rocks and stones.
Egyptians used similar tools to shape the limestone casing stones on the Pyramids.


6 posted on 09/16/2021 10:50:19 AM PDT by Little Ray (Civilization runs on a narrow margin. What sustains it is not magic, but hard work. )
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To: SunkenCiv

Ping to pet rock’s origin.

5.56mm


7 posted on 09/16/2021 10:51:35 AM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho need to go.)
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To: Red Badger
They were put in the tombs, so when archaeologists find them they wonder what they are... 🤓

Or they are ancient baseball by a prehistoric Babe Ruth... 🤓

8 posted on 09/16/2021 10:52:22 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (I'm the one trying to save American Democracy...Donald Trump 6/521 at the NCGOP convention)
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To: Red Badger

Clearly, Neolithic males had stone balls.


9 posted on 09/16/2021 10:57:56 AM PDT by Gman
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These were found in Scotland you say?

Och, these Sassenachs wrong again. We Scots made these to carry in our sporrans to scare the English...they could hear our balls clanking a mile away. Put the fear of real men into them it did.


10 posted on 09/16/2021 10:58:07 AM PDT by Covenantor (We are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and fools who can not govern. " Chesterton)
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Bocce?


11 posted on 09/16/2021 11:05:08 AM PDT by HombreSecreto (The life of a repo man is always intense)
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To: Red Badger

Bocce?


12 posted on 09/16/2021 11:05:25 AM PDT by ryderann
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That was my first thought!......................


13 posted on 09/16/2021 11:05:53 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: HombreSecreto

That was my first thought!......................


14 posted on 09/16/2021 11:06:50 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: SunkenCiv

PinGGG!........................


15 posted on 09/16/2021 11:07:21 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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Those were not ‘carved’ they came from tumbling in a stream, and someone just kept them because they were interesting.


16 posted on 09/16/2021 11:09:46 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself)
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bocci?


17 posted on 09/16/2021 11:09:49 AM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. P144:1)
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That was my first thought!......................


18 posted on 09/16/2021 11:10:28 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

I created a cannon ball. What is a cannon. Hmm I don’t know.


19 posted on 09/16/2021 11:12:02 AM PDT by pas
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It looks like croquet may have been the first competitive sport...

;-)


20 posted on 09/16/2021 11:12:19 AM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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