Re: Spiral Star Shaped Cone Hole in rock. what could it be?
- From: "Peter Jason" <PJ@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 10:40:54 +1000
It's so obvious. Clearly the surface of the rock was flat eons ago and some
5-star organism sat on it and secreted some acidic ooze which burned right
through creating the hole. Then an earthquake tilted the rock to its
present position.
"Tom McDonald" <tmcdonald2672@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> hyperoglyphe wrote:
>> <berserk04@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:1123376979.920724.211360@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>>>http://www.vallartarestaurants.com/temp/mac.jpg
>>>
>>>I found this in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
>>
>>
>> Is this Iva Biggun's mooring hole? In Mexico?
>
> The OP seems to think that there were no interesting technological folks
> in western Mexico. This is an archaeological sequence from central
> Jalisco, the Mexican state where Puerta Vallerta is:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/7s492
>
> There appears to be a long tradition of stone work. I haven't been able to
> track down whether the shaft tombs mentioned (in the San Felipe and El
> Arenal phases; the Pre-Tabachines and Early Tabachines, a couple of
> centuries either side of 1 AD) are cut through rock at all. I don't see
> why the indigenous folks from this area, at some point, could not have
> made the hole in the rock.
>
> Or, of course, it could be modern.
>
> I'm curious, though, as to why it's rifled. :-)
>
> --
> Tom McDonald
> http://ahwhatdoiknow.blogspot.com/
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