![]() ![]() Worst case, you have someplace cool to visit if you ever find yourself in Miami. At best, they'll stumble across a breakthrough. The site, now preserved by the Florida Department of State and nominated for all sorts of historic monuments statuses, is still being studied. Because they were nomadic and roamed throughout what's now the Everglades, there's a lot we don't know about them, including what the deal with this ancient circle is. First described by 16th-century Spanish conquistadors (who had apparently never heard about the pot calling the kettle black) as a bloodthirsty and hostile people, they were a largely nomadic group that managed to survive into the 18th century. However, the truth - what little we know of it - is so much cooler.įurther digging led archaeologists to conclude that the site was left behind by one of the most mysterious people to settle in the southern US: the Tequesta. Because people are incapable of finding something old without thinking aliens are behind it, aliens were immediately blamed. That's significant, because the closest place to get basalt is hundreds of miles away in what's now Georgia. We'd use it, and we wouldn't feel guilty about our winnings.Īlong with animal bones and shark teeth, archaeologists found tools and ax heads made from basalt. Though, that might make them a gambling tool of a particular persuasion, come to think of it. One theory that has been debunked is that they were some sort of gambling tool, because they would be incredibly unfair and not at all random. It's even been suggested that, since many of them were found on Roman borderlands, they were some sort of key military device, and might have been used as survey instruments or range finders for ballistic weapons. Some suggest it was used to measure the angle of sunlight and determine when crops should be planted, while others think they're decorative candlesticks, weather gauges, children's toys, or religious objects. ![]() We also know there's such a wide range of suggested uses for the dodecahedrons, it's clear we're just guessing at this point. At least we know they're not fakes, though, so that's something. He was Greek, though, so that doesn't explain why there's only some features of the dodecahedrons - like the size of the holes and the knobs - that vary. The only reference to the fancy d12 die are from Plutarch, and he wrote that it had something to do with the 12 signs of the zodiac. ![]()
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