Posted on 04/09/2022 10:06:56 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Stone spheres are found on the small island of Isla del Caño and the Diquís Delta, where over 300 stone Petrospheres have been previously identified from the Diquís culture.
The Diquís culture emerged in the Valley of the Rio Grande de Térraba, where they established complex social, economic, and political systems to govern their society.
During the Chiriquí Period between AD 800 – 1500, many settlements grew into large communities around the alluvial lands of the Térraba River and its main tributaries, constructing large structures using round-edged boulders, paved areas, burial sites, and circular or rectangular mounds with stone walls.
The Diquís reached an apex of cultural development during this period, with Diquís artisans creating elaborate ceramic, bone, and gold objects, and sculpturing stone spheres in important zones within the settlements. Stone spheres were also placed in alignments in public plazas, or along the approach to the dwellings of the ruling elite or chieftains.
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Apparently the Diquis invented/discovered Pi but did not know what to do with such knowledge except to make big balls.
Was it warm apple pi?
Ah, that explains it. Rolling cargo:
Photos: Cargo jet splits in half after skidding off runaway in Costa Rica
I wanna drop one from the top of the empire state building!
Wooden frames would work just fine. Did they look under it to see if there was any sign of a pouring opening? Once poured and hardened, it would be easy to roll it over onto a flat pouring opening.
Your comment is the funniest one in the whole bunch.
Fascinating.
When younger I wondered if maybe they were painted when new...and if so what did they look like then.
what’s the size?????????????????????/
Simply amazing!!
How Nature Creates Uncannily Spherical Boulders
There’s a geological phenomenon behind exceptionally round rocks.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/concretion-spherical-rocks
There are spherical boulders on every continent, a number on Champ Island in the Arctic:
https://weirdrussia.com/2016/05/14/the-mysterious-stone-spheres-of-champ-island/
Heh heh... yeah, I, uh, didn’t wanna immediately have fun with, uh, wait, no, let me rephrase that...
Diquis’ Delta does sound like the name of a whorehouse.
Sure, but at least it eventually inspired AC/DC.
And it was all so unnecessary, why load it on a plane, just roll it to its destination...
When one of them proposed painting their balls, the argument ensued that led to the downfall of the entire culture.
Size matters? Really?
Seems like all the plants would keep sliding off.
The archaeologists also excavated unusually large loincloths.
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