Exciting Discovery Could Solve The Plain Of Jars Puzzle – One Of Southeast Asia’s Great Ancient Mysteries

MessageToEagle.com – Scientists have made an exciting discovery on the Plain of Jars and now hope to solve one of Southeast Asia’s great ancient mysteries. The Plain of Jars has been an archaeological puzzle for a long time. Who left hundreds of three- to ten-foot-tall stone urns scattered on a windy plateau of northern Laos?

The area, known as the Plain of Jars is located in the Xiangkhoang Plateau, at about 1,000 meters above sea level in north-central Laos. Their origin also remains unknown, but they are supposed to be more than 2,000 years old.

Little is understood of the people who carved the jars from the quarries or even the initial contents and how the sites came into existence. There are no known sites offering clues to the ethnicity and identity of the people who created the stone jars.

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“This is one of the great enigmas of the Jars’ sites. These massive stone jars – some of them weighing up to 10 metric tons, that have been dragged eight to 10 kilometers from a quarry site and set up in groups,” Australian National University lecturer in archaeology, Dougald O’Reilly said.

While excavating in the Xieng Khouang Province, where there are more than 300 stone jars, stone discs and markers, archaeologists uncovered varied burial methods, including internment of whole bodies, the burying of bundled bones and bones placed inside ceramic vessels and buried.

“We’ve got seven burials and four probable burials with ceramic jars – so a total of 11 mortuary contexts,” O’Reilly said. “We’re hoping we’ll be able to get some really good information about the people.”

Isotopic and chemical analysis on the remains may provide information on the ethnicity of the people linked to the sites.

O’Reilli points out that there is speculation the Lao sites may be linked with similar jar sites located in India’s northeast region of Assam.

The Plain of Jars is by no means the only site where we encounter these huge artifacts.

Mysterious, gigantic jar-like artifacts have been discovered found in several places around the world and their origins remain obscure. For what purpose were they created and by whom? These are questions archaeologists still struggle to solve.

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