Post by Eagan Thorn on Oct 16, 2010 2:11:13 GMT 10
Some of these water toys were designed to turn in to a current, then they would glide for a distance through the water.
At least one of these recovered pieces has an open wedge and when a small seed or small piece of wood was placed in the wedge and then the toy dropped in water, the piece would glide through the water, once hitting bottom the buoyant seed or piece of wood will dislodge and float to the top of the water.
In his earlier years, when teaching my oldest to swim, I would toss various sinking toys in to the pool and have him retrieve them, we would do this for hours at a time. Later in years he would make his own underwater toys that would glide through the water, I see very little difference between my sons pool toys and these pre-Colombian toys. Perhaps being made of gold made them easier to find in the water.
These pre-Colombian cultures had many things associated with water, rivers, streams, waterfalls, underground rivers, caves, underground water reservoirs, etc.
But maybe you are right, forget about the water, clearly those "primitive" cultures had devised a way to make the heaviest available element, fly like a bird. Sure, it makes much more sense that these pre-Colombian gold weights are fashioned after airplanes.
There was another theory I remember being discussed about these items, that some of them were projectiles in some type of competition, but that idea was dismissed because none of the recovered pieces had any scratches, dents or other markings that would be associated with that type of impact. However, minor indentations on the underside of these artifacts are notable on a few pieces as if they had fallen on a hard surface while their weight had been drastically reduced. Hmm, how'd they do that? Maybe they had some sort of anti gravity machine, like, umm, I, dunno, water!
At least one of these recovered pieces has an open wedge and when a small seed or small piece of wood was placed in the wedge and then the toy dropped in water, the piece would glide through the water, once hitting bottom the buoyant seed or piece of wood will dislodge and float to the top of the water.
In his earlier years, when teaching my oldest to swim, I would toss various sinking toys in to the pool and have him retrieve them, we would do this for hours at a time. Later in years he would make his own underwater toys that would glide through the water, I see very little difference between my sons pool toys and these pre-Colombian toys. Perhaps being made of gold made them easier to find in the water.
These pre-Colombian cultures had many things associated with water, rivers, streams, waterfalls, underground rivers, caves, underground water reservoirs, etc.
But maybe you are right, forget about the water, clearly those "primitive" cultures had devised a way to make the heaviest available element, fly like a bird. Sure, it makes much more sense that these pre-Colombian gold weights are fashioned after airplanes.
There was another theory I remember being discussed about these items, that some of them were projectiles in some type of competition, but that idea was dismissed because none of the recovered pieces had any scratches, dents or other markings that would be associated with that type of impact. However, minor indentations on the underside of these artifacts are notable on a few pieces as if they had fallen on a hard surface while their weight had been drastically reduced. Hmm, how'd they do that? Maybe they had some sort of anti gravity machine, like, umm, I, dunno, water!
