Posted on 12/09/2004 3:10:21 PM PST by blam
They're mayonaisse jars from an ancient Costco.
As always, yet another reason to blame the US for something...
prehistoric tupperware
The salient frontline topographical feature was called "Skyline Ridge;" after repeated B-52 attacks, it became known among BUF crews as "Skyline Valley."
IIRC, the Battle of Dien Bien Phu (1954), where the Viet Minh defeated the French Colonial Army, took place on the Plain of Jars.
Nah. They were in different countries. Dien Bien Phu is in Vietnam, The Plain Of Jars is in Laos.
BTTT
This must be an interesting place. I would like to see it
myself.
If I read this article from the unimpeachable Guardian right tho, we dropped 2million TONS of 1000 lb and 500 lb
bombs on this relativly small area. Not only that, but our
stuff was so bad that 30% of it did not explode and is still
lying around for the local population to salvage for scrap
metal. I won't even get into the whole Darwin thing with that.
Are there really 12000 1000pound bombs or 24000 5000pound
bombs just lying around? You must be able to move around the
whole area just jumping from bomb to bomb. (Not that I would
suggest that.)
whoops should read.....24000 500pound bombs...
You would have to wonder at any archeological relevence after the artifacts have been blown hither and yon.
There are some real big one there for sure. I suspect they're older than believed too.
Quite agree.
"On a per capita basis it is the most heavily bombed country on Earth," said someone who liked to spout nonsense. On the basis of sq miles it could be the most heavily bombed.
http://www.archaeology.org/9611/newsbriefs/laos.html
Jars vs. Jungles
Volume 49 Number 6, November/December 1996
by Matthew E. Draper
Jungle overgrowth is gradually destroying the 2,000-year-old stone containers dotting the so-called Plain of Jars in northern Laos. Perhaps used as sarcophagi, wine fermenters, or rice-storage containers, the jars range in height from three to ten feet. Some 300 have been cracked by invading plants and tree roots. Khamphay Khanthavong, who directs the conservation and archaeology division of Laos' Information and Culture Ministry, says the government lacks money to save the jars. Conservators operating on a slender budget of $143,000 per year have been trying to preserve the containers by removing the trees and plant growth. Complete preservation, however, will require foreign aid.
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They're a bit too small to be Costco mayonnaise jars. ;O)
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