Some fantastic thoughts and theories being offered from you good people, thanks.

To answer a question about what material these objects are made from, mainly stone of all kinds...some are made from sandstone, easy to carve, but probably wouldn't have been hard or resilient enough for weapons, or Bolos.

Others are made from Granites, including the extremely hard and difficult to carve Diorite.

It's also possible some were made from wood, although unless preserved would have rotted away. Others may have been carved from bone or ivory, and could possibly survive the passing of time...still waiting to be found somewhere in Scotland or elsewhere.

Wooden and bone spheres, carved in the same manner as these stone examples, would probably go some way to excluding them as weapons too, as they would be too light and brittle.

It's still entirely possible that there are many more yet to be found..only something like 390 have been found, plenty more could be laying around to be discovered.

It's also possible that the Celts or Picts didn't actually carve these things in their entirety...they may have found them already carved, and then further refined the designs on them, adding spirals, whirls and pictograms, maybe even thousands of years after they were originally made by persons unknown. The evidence of this is yet to be found, but would come from finding more examples of these stones in layers of strata much older than those occupied by the Celts or the Picts.

The posters speaking about platonic solids could be onto something...what though, eludes me to be honest..but perhaps there is a connection with sacred geometry.

I love the idea of the water drop magnification...perhaps the 'laser' element could simply have been a guided shaft of light from the Sun? Plenty of Neolithic monuments are focused on rising and setting of the Sun, perhaps the lightpaths were constructed to focus and concentrate beams of light for the purpose of making the unseen...seen. It's as valid a reason for these precise constructions as any, and i'd imagine would have had a profound effect, being able to see essentially invisible objects, like grains of pollen projected onto a wall at certain times of the year.

The effect would be like magic and very spiritual i'd imagine.

You guys are great, keep the theories coming!

Regarding the similarity to pollen i go a little further.Could it be petrified pollen?
Today we know that the earth has undergone many upheavals through the ages.
And at each upheaval,the biggest creatures disappeared first.
The Internet has plenty,of photos of giant human skeletons.
Mammoths, Dinosaurs,all disappeared,in this upheavals.
I think there's a chance this is pollen,and when celts found it,they take it as souvenirs,sometimes drawing on then.

In the absence of another explanation
It's just an idea that came to mind

Originally posted by MysterX
the following theory is my own,

Well done. I like it. I also thought - plankton, or diatoms. But you have a nice correlation there.

And, yeah, history is cyclic, not linear. Nothing else makes sense.

ALl the evidence you need is in plain sight at Bal'Bek.


Note: I just read more of the posts in this thread, and I am amazed at the lengths people will go to mentally to retain their view that earlier man = primitive man.

It is plain to me that "we"' are not the apogee of human evolution (culturally or physically) and the necessary arrogance of thinking otherwise should be a bright red warning light to anyone who cares to be thoughtful about it for even a moment.

I like this post. Thanks.

The spheres seem to be copies of pollen, or that could be coincidence. But one would be led to think they were patterned after the pollen. But how could they be seen? You would have to have a magnifying device. Were there any in those times? Well yes there were in the early Greek times.

The earliest written records of lenses date to Ancient Greece, with Aristophanes' play The Clouds (424 BC) mentioning a burning-glass (a biconvex lens used to focus the sun's rays to produce fire). Some scholars argue that the archeological evidence indicates that there was widespread use of lenses in antiquity, spanning several millennia.[7] Such lenses were used by artisans for fine work, and for authenticating seal impressions. The writings of Pliny the Elder (23–79) show that burning-glasses were known to the Roman Empire,[8] and mentions what is arguably the earliest written reference to a corrective lens: Nero was said to watch the gladiatorial games using an emerald (presumably concave to correct for nearsightedness, though the reference is vague).[9] Both Pliny and Seneca the Younger (3 BC–65) described the magnifying effect of a glass globe filled with water.

This might account for the existence of magnification that possibly might be able to discern the pollen shapes. I will just leave that there.
Beyond that the spherical stones and the three sided stone appear as though they could well have been Bolo tips. Or a Cat of nine tails type weapon with a single handle or loop of leather/sinew and the stones affixed by shrinking the leather to fit, or tying them, or possibly some sort of braiding. Perhaps if they were weapons, they might have come loose in combat and fell to the wayside, or were it in rain, the leather which had been shrunk onto the spheres, relaxed due to becoming wet again, and were lost in that way.

Of course this does nothing to explain the Costa Rican stones and their meaning, since their size is vastly dissimilar.
You bring up some interesting questions...

I think in order to lend weight to the pollen representation theory, you should try to identify exactly what pollen grains they are depicting. Are they pollens of important plants (or at least important to that culture)?

As I was looking at the pictures before reading any other threads besides the OP, I kept seeing the stones as the business end of a mace with the grooves in many of them made to allow sinew or rope to attach the stone to a stick... Then for the last one which was all hollowed out that theory kind of didn't work as well - although I thought maybe a mace head that was made to be lighter...

Interesting thread.

I think they are models made to further their understanding of the universe, just like we have in schools today. These type of things could show up in a deep meditative/trance state or possibly in dreams or by lucid dreaming (for anyone who haven't tried it, look it up and try it, it's not that hard but it won't last long the first time), '___' produced by the brain could easily be responsible for these early vision. But they could also have been a gift I suppose, you never know.

There are all sorts of natural processes that result in repeating patterns, and these patterns can be found virtually anywhere. The fact that there are only so many geometrical configurations possible, especially of general shapes, means that it is normal for them to crop up repeatedly. And the geometric shapes that are pleasing to the human eye are even fewer, and are also found throughout nature.

I think it is much more likely that this is coincidence. Actually, I am positive it is coincidence, as thinking these Neolithic peoples had the technology to view things on a microscopic scale is just illogical. If this were the case, there would be plenty of evidence of high technology being unearthed, and as of yet, absolutely none has been found. Anyone can make outrageous claims about anything, but when evidence is not there to back those claims up, it must be realized that the claims are simply bogus. Occam's Razor.