"Balls continue to baffle archaeologists" Topic
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Editor in Chief Bill | 18 Jun 2018 2:50 p.m. PST |
Some of the most enigmatic human-made objects from Europe's late Stone Age — intricately carved balls of stone, each about the size of a baseball — continue to baffle archaeologists more than 200 years after they were first discovered. link |
Cacique Caribe | 18 Jun 2018 2:54 p.m. PST |
I'm not baffled. Then again, I'm not a boring archaeologist. :) Dan
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Cerdic | 18 Jun 2018 11:46 p.m. PST |
Dan, you're an interesting archaeologist then? |
79thPA | 19 Jun 2018 5:47 a.m. PST |
They are furniture casters. You put them on the bottom of furniture so it is easier to move the pieces around. Next. |
goragrad | 19 Jun 2018 12:22 p.m. PST |
Interesting. Would have been more so with more pictures rather than having to find the right link among those scattered through the article.. |
Weddier | 19 Jun 2018 4:20 p.m. PST |
Casters may be correct. There is experimental evidence that they could be used as ball bearings for moving sledges along wooden tracks. Of course, bocce could be a lot older than we thought. |
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