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In a remote part of the world, in a
difficult accessible area on the island Sulawesi in Indonesia,
is the mysterious Lora
Lindu National
Park. It is a nature reserve area under
protection of UNESCO because of the exceptional flora and fauna. But it
accommodates also a large number of mysterious megaliths. Nobody knows who the
makers were or how old the megaliths are. The estimates diverge of hundreds up
to thousands of years. Some statues remind of the moai on Easter
island, but others more on the recently discovered pigmy tarsien.
The statue Palindo in
the Brada valley could do well in a gallery for modern art. Until recent. this
megalith was half buried and still is unknown how deep it stands in the ground.
The Lore Lindu park is a tropical area of which the soil is rather soft as a
result of the rich vegetation. Because of this it is nearly impossible to move heavy
megaliths; they sink immediately in the ground. Another strange riddle is the
stones pots of Kalamba in the Besea valley. These pots strongly resemble the
stone jars in Laos.
Where these pots come from, who have made them, when and to what they served remains
a mystery.
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| HAMMERING
OF HARD STONE |
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| SAWING
IN HARD STONE |
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| DRILLING
IN HARD STONE |
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| MILLING
OF HARD STONE |
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| TURNING
OF HARD ROCK |
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| PLASTER
LAYER ON HARD STONE |
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| SMOOTHING
OF HARD STONE |
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| POLISHING
OF HARD STONE |
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| TRANSPORTING
MEGALITHS |
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| SEAMLESS
JOINTS BETWEEN STONES |
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| SEAMLESS
JOINTS BETWEEN MEGALITHS |
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| SOFTENING HARD STONE |
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| MELTING
OF HARD STONE |
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CONTACTS |
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This Palindo statue would not do bad in an art gallery for modern art. Photograph:
http://indonesia. atvisit. com |
The statues seem to have been made with ease. Photograph: Martin Kodad,
http:// travelling in indonesia.
com |
Just like the statues of Tiahuanaco the
hands rest on the belly. Photograph: www. unspecial. org |
Would the inhabitants of Easter Island have initially lived on Sulawesi? Photograph: Oliver van Straaten, wikimedia
commons
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Some statues look like the small animal pigmy tarsien of which one
thought that had died out. Photograph: http:// befaithful befabulous.
traffic-jams. wordpress. com |
Why lie the stone pots in the bush? Photograph: Rustand, www. protected
planet. net |
The stone pots are provide with a lid. Photograph: Martin Kodad, http://
travelling in indonesia. com |
Map of Sulawesi showing the Lore Lindu National Park. http:// travelling in indonesia.
com |
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