Posted on 05/22/2019 10:10:55 PM PDT by ETL
More than 100 giant stone jars, thought to have been used in burial rituals thousands of years ago, have been rediscovered at ancient sites in forests, on hillsides and along mountain ridges in remote central Laos.
The carved stone jars are scattered across miles of the rugged, tiger-haunted Xiangkhouang province, about 200 miles north of Laos' capital, Vientiane, in South Asia. They have been dubbed " jars of the dead " by researchers.
Several human burials, thought to be around 2,500 years old, have been found at some of these sites in Laos, but nothing is known about the people who originally made the jars.
An expedition of archaeologists from Laos and Australia visited the Xiangkhouang region in February and March this year to document known jar sites and to search for new jars-of-the-dead sites and stone quarries.
The new finds show that the mysterious culture that made the stone jars was geographically more widespread than previously thought, said Louise Shewan, an archaeologist at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, and one of the expedition leaders.
The largest and best-known jar site is the famous Plain of Jars, located in relatively open country near the town of Phonsavan. That site contains around 400 carved stone jars, some as tall as 10 feet and weighing more than 10 tons, and the first archaeological investigation of it was made in the 1930s.
But Shewan said that the majority of the jar sites usually contained fewer than 60 carved stone jars, and were found in forested and mountainous terrain surrounding the Plain of Jars, spread over thousands of square miles.
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Crematoriums?
Vlasic?
We heard of this almost fifty six years ago during the Communist take over of Laos. Every night was a report of the commies attacking around the Plain of Jars.
Ha! Or the original ‘jar heads’.
Spicy Pickled cabbage.........................
These were for the soup de jar.
This topic was posted , thanks again ETL.
*sigh*
I don’t have enough money or enough time to visit all things I want to see. Thanks for helping bring some of them to me.
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You have heard of them before.
It was called the Plain of Jars, not the ‘jars of dead.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plain_of_Jars
This is an old, old thing.
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