Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Ancient Rock Spheres


Recently in Costa Rica large rocks which were in the exact shapes of spheres were hot topics in science news. John Hoopes an anthropologist has been researching them because he is an expert on ancient culture in central and south America. These spheres were discovered in the early 1900's but it was not until around the 1930's were these mysterious rocks were importantly thought of. They were found when a company began clearing the forests for banana growing.

Until then some of these massive spheres are as heavy as 16 tons and about 300 have been discovered. Scientist believe that they were created around 600 A.D. Unfortunately it is unclear to whom made these formations and what they were used for. I believe that these may just seem like rock but they are extremely significant and should be preserved because it would take some what high tech tools and a long period of time to create such large and perfectly circular spheres. Without further knowledge we cannot get many more facts on these mysteries but we can always create theories and look toward science to help us with this discovery.


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