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Mystery Of The
"Doughnuts"
From Fred Dunn in Noumea The study of certain stones found in New Caledonia over the past few years is to be taken up seriously. The stones are extremely hard, seemingly of volcanic material, in the form of a doughnut, but with the hole in the middle in the shape of a lozenge rather than round.
New Caledonians have been asked to try to find more of the stones so that they can be sent to Paris for study at the Musee de I’Homme.
The stones appear to be of considerable age, and the holes in their centres seem to have been made in them artificially.
Even with present-day tools, this would be a pretty difficult job. So the question is: How could prehistoric man have done it, if the stones are, in fact, of prehistoric origin?