Archaeologists do it in holes: Tales from the stratigraphy

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Jacob

Apparently Geoffrey of Monmouth and Stonehenge was "brought to England."

Recent research suggests that Stonehenge may have been built and stood in Wales for 400 years before someone moved the whole thing some 140 miles to England.

I guess the habit of looting monuments has a long history in Britain.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/feb/12/dramatic-discovery-links-stonehenge-to-its-original-site-in-wales

jimmy olsen

Seems a bit over the top  :hmm:

QuoteWent antiquing today and found what I thought were some cute letters but turns out
https://twitter.com/fineanddanya/status/1365763983244996612

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The Brain

Why don't people write letters anymore? I think we've lost something as a civilization.
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Valmy

It is nice when you are out there doing your bit for the air force to know your girlfriend is getting plenty of threesomes back home.
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

Sheilbh

Quote from: Valmy on March 02, 2021, 03:33:03 PM
It is nice when you are out there doing your bit for the air force to know your girlfriend is getting plenty of threesomes back home.
:lol:

I'd like these included in the next Ken Burns documentary.
Let's bomb Russia!

Caliga

I'd like Morgan Freeman to read that letter with Ashokan Farewell playing in the background.
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jimmy olsen

Quote from: Valmy on March 02, 2021, 03:33:03 PM
It is nice when you are out there doing your bit for the air force to know your girlfriend is getting plenty of threesomes back home.

That page was found by itself, it was not necessarily connected to Charles.
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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Valmy

Quote from: jimmy olsen on March 02, 2021, 07:05:14 PM
Quote from: Valmy on March 02, 2021, 03:33:03 PM
It is nice when you are out there doing your bit for the air force to know your girlfriend is getting plenty of threesomes back home.

That page was found by itself, it was not necessarily connected to Charles.

Then why did you mislead me by posting them together? Here I had this whole story about a love boyfriend just happy his significant other was well taken care of and loved while he was away in my mind and then you snatch it away.
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

jimmy olsen

Quote from: Valmy on March 02, 2021, 07:11:10 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on March 02, 2021, 07:05:14 PM
Quote from: Valmy on March 02, 2021, 03:33:03 PM
It is nice when you are out there doing your bit for the air force to know your girlfriend is getting plenty of threesomes back home.

That page was found by itself, it was not necessarily connected to Charles.

Then why did you mislead me by posting them together? Here I had this whole story about a love boyfriend just happy his significant other was well taken care of and loved while he was away in my mind and then you snatch it away.
That's how it was in the original tweet.
The page came out of that stack.
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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Valmy

Quote from: jimmy olsen on March 03, 2021, 04:16:14 AM
That's how it was in the original tweet.
The page came out of that stack.

Ok look clearly I did not bring the adequate serious scholarly attitude to this subject that you wanted. I apologize.
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

viper37

A society in Spain, 4000 years ago, that may have been governed by women.
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A society that existed over 4,000 years ago, in modern-day Spain, may have been governed by women.

A woman who was adorned with a silver crown and buried with other jewelry in the early Bronze age settlement, challenges the view that men exclusively exercised state power, archeologists say, in a new study published this week in the journal Antiquity .

"The La Almoloya discoveries have revealed unexpected political dimensions of the highly stratified El Argar society, showing features that are unique in the contemporaneous Western Mediterranean and continental Europe," the study authors write.

The remains were uncovered at the La Almoloya site, on the south-east side of the Iberian peninsula, which served as a hub of the El Argar society, one of the first civilizations in the region to forge bronze, build urban centres and erect palaces.

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A better text on the subject
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Josquius

Hasn't this been a long standing theory on pre indo European people?
Albeit mostly in the north.
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jimmy olsen

Quote from: Tyr on March 13, 2021, 07:26:25 AM
Hasn't this been a long standing theory on pre indo European people?
Albeit mostly in the north.
That was the first thing that popped into my head as well
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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Valmy

Yeah and if we dug up Athens without knowing anything else about it and found the Parthenon with the huge statue of Athena in it we might also think ancient Athens had progressive social values.

Though I also thought women ruling in these societies was the orthodoxy, not a challenge to it. I just wish we could find some writings by these cultures and learn more.
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

Valmy

I would be interested if it was kind of like Sparta where rich women were the power behind the leaders. Or like the Iroquois where women appointed all the men in charge. Or something different...or if we have that totally wrong like we might with feminist Athens.
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."