6What Is The Story Behind The Plain Of Jars?
This archeological Laos landscape in the ancient Xiangkhoang Province. Here you’ll discover thousands of large stone jars between one- and three-meters tall dotting the plain. They may date back to the Iron Age, roughly 500 BC to 500 AD.
In the 1930s researchers found beads, bronze jewelry, ceramics, iron implements, and even human skeletal remains. Most of the jars, however, were empty. They may have had lids composed of perishable material.
They may have been used to hold water, served as funeral urns, or were meant to be memorials. Were the jars, which may be in up to 90 different sites, carved before or after transporting them? How the jars, weighing up to 30 tonnes, were relocated from a quarry eight kilometers away is another unsolved mystery.
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