The mysterious ancient spheres of Costa Rica
The mysterious ancient spheres of Costa Rica
The mysterious ancient peoples seem to have been in the habit of setting aside disconcerting puzzles in the form of inexplicable artifacts, often indecipherable, that serve to be both seductive and disconcerting, and one of those discoveries has haunted the country of Costa Rico. Since the late 1920s, it was discovered that a vast area of dense and almost impenetrable tropical forest in the Diquís Valley of Costa Rica had the perfect soil composition to grow a variety of different fruits. Considered more or less like an agricultural gold mine, the United Fruit Company began moving to this unexplored desert to clean it and give way to banana plantations, but in addition to the difficulties of the land, the disease and the thick clouds of mosquitoes , they found something further in the jungle, something that has become one of the great archaeological mysteries of the world.
In the 1930s, the workers clearing the land in the valley began to find something they found difficult to understand. There, standing among the trees and undergrowth, were thousands of large stones, with some really massive stones up to 7 feet wide and weighing about 16 tons. The strange thing was that they were not mere rocks and boulders, but perfectly or almost perfectly shaped spheres, totally soft to the touch, and obviously had been there for a long time, ancient monoliths of a time long forgotten. obviously they were artificial. There were also many of them, with around 300 found scattered throughout the landscape over the years.
Most would have thought that this was an important discovery, but although the workers were certainly baffled and frightened, they were not on an archaeological expedition, they were there to clear land for fruit planting and these strange relics were getting in their way. The workers simply pushed them aside with heavy equipment and with their hands, and some even thought that maybe they had gold in them, opening them by the drill and dynamite. This obviously damaged the spheres immensely, and when the word spread about these magnificent ancient treasures and the authorities were able to move, many of them were irreparably damaged or even completely destroyed, and even more were sold to become lawn ornaments for the rich. seekers of curiosity throughout the country before being able to study them seriously.
The first serious study conducted on the mysterious stone spheres was carried out in the 1940s by the researcher Doris Stone, who was actually the daughter of one of the executives of the United Fruit Company and future director of the National Museum of Costa Rica . Stone's findings were published in 1943 in the prestigious archaeological magazine American antiquity, and this caught the attention of other researchers. One of them was Samuel Lothrop, from the Peabody Museum at Harvard University, who made an important excavation and study of the remaining spheres, carefully measuring them and mapping their positions and alignments.
Other expeditions and studies have been carried out sporadically over the years, but the spheres are still as mysterious as they always were. We know their size, which are formed by an indigenous hard stone known as granodiorite, and we also know that they are definitely artificial. Apart from that, there has been a lot of speculation and debate about how old they are, how they were made, who made them and for what purpose. Presenting a serious obstacle to answering any of these questions and, in fact, generating new questions that might otherwise have been answered is also the fact that practically none of the spheres remain in their original positions or alignments, and some of them have disappeared completely. To serve as landscape decorations, and many of those that remain suffer great damage. The spheres have been displaced down or down the ravines, and others have been severely damaged or destroyed when moved, treasure hunters fly them, or burn, which distorts, cracks and cracks the smooth surface of the stones .
Regarding the age of the spheres, they were originally described as truly ancient, up to 12,000 years ago, but since then they have been questioned. It is difficult to use radiocarbon dating methods in solid stone, so the most reliable way to guess their age is to compare them with ceramics and other artifacts found within the same strata, but since many of the stones have already been moved from its original Positions even this is not totally reliable. Although it is not known with certainty the age of these, based on the artifacts that surround them and below them, it has been guessed that the spheres probably go back to between 600 and 1500 AD, but who is also a mystery, since it's a mystery. I managed to do it with the primitive tools at hand.
It has been speculated that these spheres were probably created by the ancestors of the Boruca, Teribe and Guaymí native peoples of the area, although this is not known for sure, and there is also the idea that perhaps a lost and unknown civilization was responsible . . The methods used to make the spherical rocks are also shrouded in mystery, since the granodiorite is a very hard rock that is notoriously difficult to carve, but there are some clues. Although a good number of the spheres are almost completely smooth, some of them show tool marks that present suggestions on how they could have been designed. It is thought that the people who built them would have chosen boulders that, to begin with, were somewhat rounded, probably extracted from the bed of the Térraba river or the nearby mountains of Talamanca, after which the heavy rocks were laboriously transported and the work.
There have been some ideas that the natives who created them had access to some kind of lost method, such as the use of some kind of stone softening potion, but there is little evidence to back it up. It is thought that the spheres were more likely meticulously formed through a combination of controlled fracture, in which the cracks are intentionally made, milled, stung and stung with some kind of robust tool, made of a similarly hard substance, possibly made of the same type of rock as the spheres themselves. Curiously, the outer layers of the mysterious spheres have shown that they were subjected to extremes of heat and cold, probably to soften them by detaching from the bits, with the heat provided by the embers. When the rocks finally approached a proper spherical shape, undoubtedly a laborious process that would have taken a long time, then they would be polished with care until obtaining a fine smoothness using materials such as rough leather or even sand. This is the commonly accepted method for making the spheres, but it is not safe since spheres have never been found unfinished, so we do not know for sure.
So we have a plausible idea, although still uncertain, of who made the spheres, how and when, but even then we have the reason why. Why did these ancient people go through all the effort of molding these huge rocks just to leave them scattered throughout the landscape? What were these enigmatic artifacts really used for? No one knows for sure, since there are no records of them by whoever made them, but there are theories. One is that the arrangement and alignment of the spheres, or at least the positions and estimated alignments of them, in relation to the ruins of walls, structures and cobblestones that surround them, suggest that they may have served as a form of tool for navigation , Astronomical observations, or even as a compass. The problem is that, as mentioned, almost none of the spheres are in their original positions, so all this is pure speculation. Another idea is that, because some of them have found themselves inside what would once have been a structure or on top of the mounds, they may have had some religious significance or been used as status symbols. In the end, it is so unclear why they were made as who made them and how. We just do not know.
Of course, with such a seductive mystery, more complementary theories have been presented for the mysterious spheres, such as that they were brought from Atlantis or built by refugees from the legendary lost continent, and this theory was proposed especially in books. Atlantis in America- Navigators of the ancient world, by Ivar Zapp and George Erikson (1998), and The Atlantis Blueprint: unlocking the ancient mysteries of a lost civilization long ago, by Colin Wilson and Rand Flem-Ath (2001). Another idea is that the people who built the spheres had the help of former aliens, who used their technology to make the objects, and that the spheres somehow align with similar monuments in remote places like the Moai of Easter Island , Stonehenge. and even the pyramids.
In the end, these strange and huge spheres have remained largely as mysterious as they always have been, inscrutable monoliths of another time and lost people. Today, most intact spheres can be found in various parts of the country and in museums around the world, but the unleashing of their original jungle lair has done little to really illuminate their origins, with their enigmas in a I sense that those savages are still firmly rooted along with their remaining solitary brethren. For now, the mysterious stone spheres offer only fleeting clues as to the meaning of their existence, and it is likely that the only ones who will ever know the true answers are those who created them.
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