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Hi, my name is Robert Lamb, and this is The Artifact, a short form series from Stuff to Blow

Your Mind focusing on particular objects, ideas, and moments in time.

During the 1930s, the United Fruit Company worked a clear additional Costa Rican jungle for new banana crops, and in doing so, they stumbled upon an enduring mystery.

Stone spheres, ultimately ranging in diameter from six inches to eight feet, reaching weights of up to 15 tons.

In time, more than 300 of these petrospheres were discovered, all pre-Columbian in origin,

the work of the DECIS people and found primarily in the DECA delta of southwestern Costa Rica.

The Dicus people flourished in this region from roughly 700 to 1530 CE.

As pointed out by Mark Milligan in a 2021 article for Heritage Daily, the mysterious stone spheres of Costa Rica,

16th century Spanish invaders seemingly made no mention of the artifacts.

The cascading devastation, disease, colonization, and war, brought on by Europeans, seemingly erased any knowledge of their purpose,

and the artifacts were forgotten for centuries, hidden under thick layers of sediment, but also protected.

Since their rediscovery, the spheres have become

iconic artifacts of pre-Columbian Costa Rica, with examples found in the country's own

national museum, which I've had the privilege of visiting, and other museums around the world.

As explored in James Doyle's, a stone sphere from Costa Rica for the Met, as well as the Denver Art

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