Paul H. Wrote:
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> Campbell wrote:
>
> "Yes, Paul, but how did this Olmec sphere get
> from Diquis, Costa Rica to Bosnia? :-)"
>
> Is it marked "Made in Mexico"? :-) :-) Stone
> spheres, both man-
> made and natural are quite common. Lots of people
> make stone
> spheres. Also, this sphere also could be a natural
> spherical
> concretion as illustrated in:
>
> Hanson, W. D., and J. M. Howard, 2005, Spherical
> Boulders
> in North-Central Arkansas. Arkansas geological
> Commision
> Miscellaneous Publication no. 22, 16 pp.
>
> and "Moeraki boulders" at and "Menzies'
> Psuedo-Artifacts at .
>
> The questions, which need to be answered are 1. is
> this spherical
> object natural or man-made? and 2. if man-made,
> who made it? I do
> not understand how certain people on the GHMB have
> this blind and
> misplaced faith in the assumption that if
> something is a large
> stone sphere that it been made by Olmecs as if
> they had some sort
> prehistoric patent or monopoly on the production
> of stone spheres.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> PAul H.
>
> "The past is never dead. It's not even past."
> William Faulkner, Act 1, Scene III, Requiem for a
> Nun (1951)

The most famous stone balls were made in Costa Rica many many years after the Olmec (who BTW did not particularly make stone balls)

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Bernard