• The Stone Spheres of Costa Rica

    The stone spheres of Costa Rica are an assortment of over three hundred petrospheres found in Costa Rica, loed on the Diquís Delta and on Isla del Caño. Locally, they are also known as bolas de piedra. The spheres are commonly attributed to the extinct Diquis culture and are sometimes referred to as the Diquís Spheres.

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  • Researchers in Costa Rica unearth a nearly 'Perfect' massive stone ...

     · The massive stone spheres are referred to as the stone spheres of Diquis, a region to the south of Costa Rica, and were made between the year 300 and 1500 AD by the predecessors of the Boruca Culture, explains a post on the Facebook post on the National Museum of Costa Rica.

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  • Stone Spheres of Costa Rica – UNESCO World Heritage

     · Grijalba Archaeological Site, Batambal Archaeological Site, El Silencio Archaeological Site and Finca 6 Archaeological Site.

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  • Costa Rica finds first stone sphere in 14 years

     · The National Museum of Costa Rica has confirmed the discovery of a preColumbian stone sphere. Loed in the Finca 12 sector of Palmar Sur de Osa, the sphere is the first since 2007 to be found in its original site. The bola de piedra measures meters in diameter and is in "perfect condition," the National Museum says.

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  • 🚧 The Mystery of the Stone Spheres Of Costa Rica | Worldatlas

     · The stone spheres of Costa Rica. The stone spheres of Costa Rica refer to a collection of over 300 petrospheres in Costa Rica, loed on Isla del Cano. Locally, the stone spheres are called as Las Bolas and are wellknown stone carvings from the IsthmoColombia era. They are thought to have been built in lines leading to the house of chiefs ...

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  • COSTA RICA: STONE PENDANT

    PENDANT OF A STANDING PRIEST. Light blue green stone. Costa Rica, Guanacaste culture, 0 500 AD. Height: 11,1 cm. For sale

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  • Costa Rica's Mysterious Stone Spheres Declared World Heritage

     · Precolumbian Chiefdom Settlements with Stone Spheres of the Diquis includes four archaeological sites loed in the Diquis Delta in southern Costa Rica, which are considered unique examples of ...

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  • Six Ancient Giant Stone Spheres Recovered From The Diquís Delta, Costa Rica

     · As many as 300 stone spheres have been previously unearthed during excavations. The spheres were stered across four archaeological sites in the region. Many of the stone spheres are aligned in an eastwest direction, associated with sunrise and sunset, which shows that the Diquís culture was interested in astronomy.

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  • About Costa Rica | Visit Costa Rica | Costa Rica Tourism Official .

    Costa Rica is a country loed in Central America that is ranked as one of the most visited international destinations. One of Costa Rica's main sources of income is tourism. Costa Rica is a democratic and peaceful country and it has not had an army since the year 1948.

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  • Costa Rica's Mysterious Stone Spheres

     · Around 300 of the stone balls are known to exist in Costa Rica, most of them clustered in the Disquis Delta region. The largest weigh in at a hefty 16 tons, and measure eight feet in diameter, while the smallest can be lifted easily by a single person.

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  • Giant Stone Balls

    In Costa Rica, Lothrup reported stone balls in the Diquis Delta, Camaronal Island where they were on hilltops, on the hills north of the Diquis and high up in the Cordillera Bruquena that reaches about 1,000 meters in height. The most easterly group was near Piedras Blancas.

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    5 November 2019 7 November 2019. Subregional meeting on the Action Plan for World Heritage in Mexico and Central America, . 23 April 2018 25 April 2018. International Meeting on the Comparative Analysis of the Archaeological site Delta of Diquis. 8 March 2010 12 March 2010.

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  • Stone Spheres of Costa Rica | Learning never exhausts the mind

     · The Stone Spheres of Costa Rica are a collection of over 300 almost perfect spherical orbs first discovered in the Diquis Delta in the 1930's. They vary in size from a few centimetre to several meters, the larger stones weigh nearly 16 tonnes. Most are sculpted from granodiorite, an igneous rock similar to granite.

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  • The Stone Spheres of Costa Rica • CuriouStuff

    Although they are a great archaeological find, the origin of the stone spheres remains a mystery to mankind. In 1939, workers at the American company Standard Fruit Company were clearing a forest in southern Costa Rica to plant bananas when they discovered strange stone spheres, some very large, loed in the middle of the forest.

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  • Costa Rica archaeologists in awe as Brooklyn Museum returns .

     · PreColumbian stone statues, repatriated from the Brooklyn Museum in New York,, are displayed for its classifiion by archaeologists at the facilities of the Costa Rica's National Museum ...

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  • UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Costa Rica

    Precolumbian Chiefdom Settlements with Stone Spheres of the Diquís (2014) These unique petrosphers, or stone balls, are loed in Costa Rica's Diquis Delta and Isla del Cano. The stone balls are associated with the nowextinct Diquis culture although their exact meaning and importance remain unknown until today.

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  • Stone spheres of Costa Rica

    The stone spheres of Costa Rica are an assortment of over 300 petrospheres in Costa Rica, on the Diquís Delta and on Isla del Caño. Locally, they are also known as bolas de piedra (literally stone balls). The spheres are commonly attributed to the extinct Diquís culture, and they are sometimes referred to as the Diquís Spheres.

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  • Six Ancient Stone Spheres from Diquís Delta in Costa Rica .

     · Conservationrestoration project of Mexico and Costa Rica recovers ancient stone spheres from the Diquís delta. ( INAH) The first step in conservation of the six stone spheres, two of which were extensively damaged and required delie "surgery", was to dig them up.

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  • The UnMuseum

    The Mysterious Stone Spheres of Costa Rica Found deep in the jungles of Costa Rica in the 1930's were 300 nearly perfectly round stone balls. They varied in size from a few inches in diameter, to seven feet across and weighing 16 tons. Scientists aren't sure who made them, how old they are or what purpose they might have had.

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