Posted on 04/12/2021 12:08:53 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
According to their analysis – using a technique called Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL) to date the ancient stone – the jars were positioned potentially as early as the late second millennium BCE.
Evidence discovered of varied mortuary practices at some of the sites – including primary burial of human skeletons, and also bundled or jarred collections of bones – was also dated by radiocarbon dating, suggesting activity between 9-13th century CE.
On the face of the most recent evidence, this means the Plain of Jars pre-dates the most recent and confirmed discoveries of mortuary practices, by potentially thousands of years. As for what that means, we don't yet know.
"The data presented here strongly suggests that the placement of the megaliths preceded the mortuary activity around the jars, indicating re-use of the sites and enduring ritual significance," the researchers write...
Examination of megaliths in one site suggests the most likely quarry was 8 kilometres (5 miles) away from where the jars ended up – so just how the ancient culture that created these objects (estimated to weigh up to over 30 tonnes) managed to also transport them, is yet another unknown.
Still a mystery for the ages, then, and no mistake.
(Excerpt) Read more at sciencealert.com ...
Reminds me of:
Plain of jars, Long Tieng, Laos, Gen. Vang Pao, Pop Buell, Tony Pope, Bill Lair
Against the Pathet Lao
Earthquake McGoon hit a mountain in Laos.
Earthquake was a big guy.
http://www.check-six.com/Crash_Sites/CAT-149_McGoon.htm
I had a lodge brother friend who was blind when I met him. He was in North Vietnam in places we weren’t. One of a few who got back.
He was a demolition specialist. Flew all kinds of fixed wing and helicopters.
After service he set explosives in a mine in Colorado.
He was a great guy, and he could tell the funniest stories. Most of which were true.
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