Petrosphere (from
Greek
Greek may refer to:
Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe:
*Greeks, an ethnic group
*Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family
**Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor of all kno ...
πέτρα (''petra''), "stone", and σφαῖρα (''sphaira''), "ball") may refer to:
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Stone ball
In archaeology, a stone ball or petrosphere (from Ancient Greek, Greek πέτρα (''petra''), "stone", and σφαῖρα (''sphaira''), "ball") is the name for any spherical man-made object of any size that is composed of stone. These mainly pr ...
s, a diverse class of archaeological artefact
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carved stone balls
Carved stone balls are petrospheres dated from the Late Neolithic, to possibly as late as the Iron Age, mainly found in Scotland, but also elsewhere in Britain and Ireland. They are usually round and rarely oval, and of fairly uniform size at ...
, prehistoric artefacts found in the British Isles
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Petrosphere (geology), a planet's crust and mantle
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