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Recent Chicken Scratchings
Game rules: (1) Find a 200 ft spire; (2) Pick a nice, round 1000 lb. boulder; (3) Then shoot!
Whoever lands it on the top, scores 10 points (I was going to say 1,000 points but I’m not sure that stone age humans could count beyond their fingers).
However, whoever misses, will suffer a crushing defeat.
Posted 7 Dec 2009
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I guess the ‘slam dunk’ probably wasn’t invented during this prehistoric version of the game.
I put them there. I just wondered if anyone would ever notice.
So, this photo has had me thinking over the past few days:
Did some of our ancestors really place the fantastically heavy rocks up onto these pillars …
or …
Finding the big rocks at the top of the pillars, and knowing a thing or two about erosion, did they scrape strategic crevices in the rocks so that over time, water, wind and sand would reduce the cliff to a few pillars … and thus leave future generations to ponder their meaning and etymology (for lack of a better word)?