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One of the antler picks that were sampled during the research. As these picks were used to dig out the ditches of the henge, they provide a good indication of the date that the monument was constructed.
One of the antler picks that were sampled during the research. As these picks were used to dig out the ditches of the henge, they provide a good indication of the date that the monument was constructed.
Academics used the latest scientific methods to re-examine the remains of the Mount Pleasant 'mega henge', a large prehistoric enclosure, located just outside Dorchester in Dorset. This is the first time accurate dating has been obtained for the major late Neolithic monument and offers new insights into the incredible speed at which construction took place.
Inside Mount Pleasant henge was a large, fenced enclosure and a complex concentric timber and stone monument. On top of the bank was built a great mound. The new analysis shows that all these different elements were completed in less than 125 years - much less time than previously thought. The data shows the site was built only 150 years or so before the arrival of new people from continental Europe, who brought the first metals and different pottery as well as new ideas and religious beliefs.
Comment: It was more than simply the 'arrival' of new people, for the most part the arrival of the Beaker peoples entirely replaced the DNA of those living there at the time.
Comment: Researchers can't be certain that the date they've come to is accurate nor that what dated belonged to the original builders. It's quite possible that they were built much earlier:
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A satellite image of the Noordoostpolder, a Dutch municipality where the four settlements were found
A satellite image of the Noordoostpolder, a Dutch municipality where the four settlements were found
As Dutch regional broadcaster Omroep Flevoland reports, Yftinus van Popta, an archaeologist at the University of Groningen, has identified four "drowned" medieval villages in the Noordoostpolder, a low-lying tract of land reclaimed from the Zuiderzee in the 1940s, after five years of extensive research. (Per the United States Geological Survey, engineers reclaimed the Noordoostpolder and other flood-prone polders by draining water from the Zuiderzee and building a series of dikes.)
Comment: Research has shown that this was flooding of a kind we've yet to see in our own time:
- Massive flooding in Europe during the Little Ice Age
- England's soggy historical place names could predict the climate future
- Recurring, natural climate change: 9th century Viking runestone records fears of '3-year-long winter'
- Highest flooding in Europe for 500 years, historical records show correlation with abnormal cold
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- MindMatters: The Holy Grail, Comets, Earth Changes and Randall Carlson
- Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Interview with Laura Knight-Jadczyk and Pierre Lescaudron
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The one-of-its-kind burial for the region is from the early mid-Holocene and gives important insights into burial practices of the time.
Lead researcher Dr. Sofia Samper Carro said the child, aged between four and eight, was laid to rest with some kind of ceremony.
"Ochre pigment was applied to the cheeks and forehead and an ochre-colored cobble stone was placed under the child's head when they were buried," she said.
At midnight tonight, November 4-5 a second lockdown begins in the UK, with scant justification and amid a storm of propaganda. On the same day at the same time 415 years earlier another momentous event was announced, amid a similar storm of propaganda. While not obviously connected in any way the juxtaposition reminds us that official narratives always require interrogation and always will. The gunpowder plot: 5 November 1605
According to historians of the gunpowder plot, the official story of this event concealed the extent to which the British establishment of the day may have enhanced their popularity and personal profits by pushing a version of events that drew Britain into decades of profitable war against Catholic Spain and Portugal. Most recently,this view has been expressed by John Hamer (in his Falsification of History) and by Webster Tarpley (in his videos about the Gunpowder Plot). The earliest and fullest account however occurs in John Gerard's 1897 book, What was the Gunpowder Plot?
Gerard's detailed investigation concludes that "the government consistently falsified the story". Since this is the earliest account to openly declare this, and since it predates the CIA's label of 'conspiracy theory' by some seventy years, it is worth reviewing the evidence underpinning this statement. For, understanding the context will highlight the problems that undermine the faithful reporting of events.
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An artist's depiction of what hunting may have looked like in the Andes Mountains of South America 9,000 years ago. Archaeologists were surprised when analysis of a hunter burial from the time period revealed the individual was biologically female.
An artist's depiction of what hunting may have looked like in the Andes Mountains of South America 9,000 years ago. Archaeologists were surprised when analysis of a hunter burial from the time period revealed the individual was biologically female.
Randall Haas, an archaeologist at University of California, Davis, recalls the moment in 2018 when his team of researchers gathered around the excavated burial of an individual lain to rest in the Andes Mountains of Peru some 9,000 years ago. Along with the bones of what appeared to be a human adult was an impressive — and extensive — kit of stone tools an ancient hunter would need to take down big game, from engaging the hunt to preparing the hide.
"He must have been a really great hunter, a really important person in society" — Haas says that's what he and his team were thinking at the time.
Comment: Archaeological and literary evidence for female warriors has been found before elsewhere, but that's not to say that these roles were common throughout cultures. Whilst there may have been flexibility possibly based on need, culture or aptitude in societies, it would appear that there was a norm for particular roles and it tended to be for obvious, biological reasons; and so researchers need to be careful about projecting any modern day, often post-modernist, conceptions onto the past:
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View of chamber of Tomb 1
View of chamber of Tomb 1
The Mycenaean necropolis is located on the southwestern slope of the plateau and on the ancient road leading to the citadel of historical times. The excavated tombs are arranged on at least three levels of terraces along the south side of Trapeza, a few meters from each other, in a parallel arrangement and with a north-south orientation. These are chamber tombs carved into the soft rock of the subsoil.
Comment: See also:
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- Artifacts in gold-lined tombs hint at ancient Greek trade relationships
- Greeks' main genetic ancestry from the Minoans and Mycenaeans
- Havering hoard: UK's largest Bronze Age hoard hints to unknown links with Europe
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Bought by an anonymous bidder for £2.7 million ($3.5 million), the "aureus" coin features a portrait of Marcus Junius Brutus -- one of the ringleaders in the assassination of Caesar in 44 BC.
It also depicts the daggers used by Brutus and his co-conspirator Cassius to slay the ancient general in the Theater of Pompey in Rome, and a cap of Liberty -- a symbolic garment given to slaves upon their freedom.
Comment: It's rather symbolic that this sale should go ahead at this point in time considering the state of turmoil our planet is in and the ponerized nature of those in power (and who also probably share a lot in common with those who murdered Caesar).
To discover who Caesar really was, check out:
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Microscope image of Iron Age oak twig from Tell Tayinat in Hatay, Turkey.
Microscope image of Iron Age oak twig from Tell Tayinat in Hatay, Turkey.
A new study led by University of Toronto and Cornell University archaeologists working at Tell Tayinat in southeastern Turkey, demonstrates that human responses to climate change are variable and must be examined using extensive and precise data gathered at the local level. The study highlights how challenge and collapse in some areas were matched by resilience and opportunities elsewhere.
The findings published today in PLoS ONE are welcome contributions to discussions about human responses to climate change that broaden an otherwise sparse chronological framework for the northern part of the region known historically as the Levant, which stretches the length of the eastern edge of the Mediterranean Sea.
Comment: See also:
- The Seven Destructive Earth Passes of Comet Venus
- Recurring, natural climate change: 9th century Viking runestone records fears of '3-year-long winter'
- Collapse of ancient economy in the grip of plague and climate change revealed by grape pips
- Mysterious egalitarian 'megasites' could rewrite history of world's first cities
- A warning from ancient tree rings: The Americas are prone to catastrophic, simultaneous droughts
- Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Interview with Laura Knight-Jadczyk and Pierre Lescaudron
- MindMatters: The Holy Grail, Comets, Earth Changes and Randall Carlson
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General Michael Flynn, former U.S. Secretary of Defense
General Michael Flynn, former U.S. Secretary of Defense
- Julius Caesar
The illegal invasion of Libya, in which Britain was complicit and a British House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee's report confirmed as an illegal act sanctioned by the UK government, over which Cameron stepped down as Prime Minister (weeks before the release of the UK parliament report), occurred from March - Oct, 2011.
Muammar al-Gaddafi was assassinated on Oct. 20th, 2011.
On Sept 11-12th, 2012, U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens, U.S. Foreign Service information management officer Sean Smith, and CIA contractors Tyron Woods and Glen Doherty were killed at two U.S. government facilities in Benghazi.
It is officially denied to this date that al-Qaeda or any other international terrorist organization participated in the Benghazi attack. It is also officially denied that the attack was pre-meditated.
On the 6th year anniversary of the Benghazi attack, Barack Obama stated at a partisan speech on Sept 10th, 2018, delivered at the University of Illinois, that the outrage over the details concerning the Benghazi attack were the result of "wild conspiracy theory" perpetrated by conservatives and Republican members of Congress.
Comment: Other articles by Cynthia Chung:
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- Dr. Strangelove's spoon benders: How the US military learned to stop worrying and love the bomb
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Comment: Traces of four "drowned" medieval settlements discovered by Dutch archaeologists