These pictures are from Costa Rica on a private island called Isla Del Cano. The people that used to live here thousands of years ago used these to mark graves in line with the sun. Some are small but most are so huge that to this day, nobody knows how they were made and how they were moved to some of the higher points.
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There are those who claim they are "prefect spheres" and could not have been created by ancient peoples, but there was a show on National Geographic where they used instruments to show they were nice spheres, but imperfect, and then local artisans chipped away at stones with other stones and created modern boulas. Or at least that's what they want us to think...
I think it is interesting to have a little mystry behing things. In Overlay, Lippard comments that what interests her most about prehistory is precisely what cannot be known about. Isn't it interesting to picture who made these? when? how?
I love the mystery element too. I think the most fascinating stories come from whole civilizations that vanished: (I found this list online) Pompeii, Troy, Nicola, Babylon, Chichen Itza, and Angkor Wat and I think there was an early American settlement in VA or NC that just disappeared, too.
I would be curious to watch that NatGeo special. I hadn't actually heard of boulas before this trip. I like your last line though :)
The "Lost Colony" from the Outer Banks of NC I believe is what you are referring to. Also, now they have found that before Plymouth Roch a band of French Huguenots inhabited an area in Florida ... before the Spaniards came and obliterated them!
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