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Dozens of archeological sites discovered by volunteers from home during lockdown


Archaeology News Network
Wed, 13 May 2020 19:00 UTC
site map
© University of Exeter
A probable Iron Age or Roman enclosed settlement (red arrows) and associated field system (blue arrows)
revealed by LiDAR data but hidden today beneath woodland
Dozens of previously-unrecorded Roman, prehistoric and medieval sites have been discovered by archaeology volunteers based at home during the coronavirus lockdown.

Digging may be on hold due to the pandemic, but the team have found parts of two Roman roads, around 30 prehistoric or Roman large embanked settlement enclosures, around 20 prehistoric burial mounds, as well as the remains of hundreds of medieval farms, field systems and quarries. Those leading the project believe they will make many more discoveries in the coming weeks.

The team, led by Dr Chris Smart from the University of Exeter and working as part of the National Lottery Heritage Fund supported Understanding Landscapes project, are analysing images derived from LiDAR, or light detection and ranging, data. This laser technology is used during aerial surveys to produce highly detailed topographical maps.

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Mystery of 60 peculiar lead cubes with 'Sanskrit inscriptions' pulled from British river


Coventry Live
Tue, 12 May 2020 17:00 UTC
sanskrit cubes
© WillRead8888/Imgur
A magnet fisherman out with his two young sons at a river in Coventry reeled in almost 60 mysterious cubes thought to show a sacred numerical inscription.

Will Read found the haul of engraved lead squares - believed to be connected to a mystical Hindu prayer ritual - while out sifting through shallow water.

The faces of the objects, small enough to hold between finger and thumb, are set into neat grids with inscriptions thought to be in Sanskrit.

At first, Will, 38, from Finham, thought the cubes were just random pieces of debris littering the bottom of the River Sowe in south Coventry.
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Info

How Thomas Huxley's X-Club created 'Nature Magazine' and sabotaged science for 150 years

Matthew Ehret
Strategic Culture Foundation
Wed, 13 May 2020 00:00 UTC
Darwin and Huxley
Amidst the storm of controversy raised by the lab-origin theory of COVID-19 extolled by such figures as Nobel prize winning virologist Luc Montagnier, bioweapons expert Francis Boyle, Sri Lankan Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith and the head of Iran's Revolutionary Guard, an elaborate project was undertaken under the nominal helm of NATURE Magazine in order to refute the claim once and for all under the report 'The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2'.

This project was led by a team of evolutionary virologists using a line of reasoning that "random mutation can account for anything" and was parroted loudly and repeatedly by Fauci, WHO officials and Bill Gates in order to shut down all uncomfortable discussion of the possible laboratory origins of COVID-19 while also pushing for a global vaccine campaign. On April 18, Dr. Fauci (whose close ties with Bill Gates, and Big Pharma have much to do with his control of hundreds of billions of dollars of research money), stated:
"There was a study recently that we can make available to you, where a group of highly qualified evolutionary virologists looked at the sequences there and the sequences in bats as they evolve. And the mutations that it took to get to the point where it is now is totally consistent with a jump of a species from an animal to a human."
I think at this moment, rife as it is with speculative arguments, confusion and under-defined data, it is useful to remove oneself from the present and look for higher reference points from which we can re-evaluate events now unfolding on the world stage.
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'Largest ever' hillfort discovered in Scotland


BBC
Thu, 14 May 2020 12:00 UTC
Rhynie
© University of Aberdeen
Tap O' Noth overlooks Rhynie
A hillfort in Aberdeenshire is one of the largest ancient settlements ever discovered in Scotland, researchers have said.

University of Aberdeen archaeologists say 4,000 people may have lived in more than 800 huts perched high on the Tap O' Noth near Rhynie.

Many had thought it dated from the Bronze or Iron Age.

The team said carbon dating suggested it was likely to be Pictish, dating back as far as the third century AD.

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Info

Fossil footprints in Africa a snapshot of past behaviour

Natalie Parletta
Cosmos Magazine
Thu, 14 May 2020 19:00 UTC
The Engare Sero footprint site
© CYNTHIA LIUTKUS-PIERCE
The Engare Sero footprint site. An eruption of Oldoinyo L'engai, the volcano in the background, produced the ash in which the footprints were preserved.
Thousands of years ago, a group of people trekked across African soil, and their footprints remain to shine a torch on our ancestors' movements and behaviours.

More than 400 indents were left by bare human feet in Engare Sero, Tanzania, originally spotted by members of a local Maasai community more than a decade ago and their age and formation described in 2016.

Geological analyses revealed the prints, all preserved on the same surface of hardened ash from nearby volcano Ol Doinyo Lengai, were made sometime between 6000 and 19,000 years ago, placing them around the Late Pleistocene.

Now, paleoanthropological analyses, published in the journal Scientific Reports, explore what the fossilised tracks reveal about the people who made them.

"Footprints are rare components of the human fossil record," says lead author Kevin Hatala from Chatham University in Pittsburgh, US, "yet they can preserve exceptional snapshots of behaviour in our distant past."
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Better Earth

Victory Day: It's time to think about finally winning WWII

Matthew Ehret
Strategic Culture
Sat, 09 May 2020 12:00 UTC
WWII
© SCF
75 years ago Germany surrendered to allied forces finally ending the ravages of the Second World War.

Today, as the world celebrates the 75th anniversary of this victory, why not think very seriously about finally winning that war once and for all?

If you're confused by this statement, then you might want to sit down and take a deep breath before reading on. Within the next 12 minutes, you will likely discover a disturbing fact which may frighten you a little bit: The allies never actually won World War II...

Now please don't get me wrong. I am eternally thankful for the immortal souls who gave their lives to put down the fascist machine during those bleak years... but the fact is that a certain something wasn't resolved on the 9th of May, 1945 which has a lot to do with the slow re-emergence of a new form of fascism during the second half of the 20th century and the renewed danger of a global bankers' dictatorship which the world faces again today.

It is my contention that it is only when we find the courage to really look at this problem with sober eyes, that we will be able to truly honor our courageous forebears who devoted their lives to winning a peace for their children, grandchildren and humanity more broadly.
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Biohazard

Fort Detrick's mind-blowing, murderous history

Ceng Jing
CGTN
Wed, 13 May 2020 20:33 UTC
fort detrick bio lab
© AP Photo/Andrew Harnik /File
In this March 19, 2020, biosafety protective suits for handling viral diseases are hung up outside a chemical decontamination room in a biosafety level 4 training facility at U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command at Fort Detrick in Frederick, Md.
Since the Trump administration declared national emergency in mid-March over the rapid spread of COVID-19, the task of developing a vaccine has fallen on the U.S. Army's top virus research lab in Fort Detrick, located in suburban Maryland some 50 miles outside of Washington, D.C..

Over the past decades, leading researches on a wide range of viruses and bacteria were conducted inside the sprawling complex. Its state-of-the-art facilities also store some of the most dangerous toxins known to mankind, including Ebola, anthrax and the SARS coronavirus.

The obscure army base came under the spotlight in 2008 after one of its scientists was suspected to have perpetrated the 2001 anthrax attack, where several letters containing the deadly germ were mailed to American media and government offices.

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Solar Flares

The great geomagnetic storm of May 1921 was as strong as the Carrington Event of 1859


Space Weather
Wed, 13 May 2020 13:23 UTC
may 1921 solar storm
99 years ago this week, people around the world woke up to some unusual headlines.

"Telegraph Service Prostrated, Comet Not to Blame" — declared the Los Angeles Times on May 15, 1921. "Electrical Disturbance is 'Worst Ever Known'" — reported the Chicago Daily Tribune. "Sunspot credited with Rail Tie-up" — deadpanned the New York Times.

They didn't know it at the time, but the newspapers were covering the biggest solar storm of the 20th Century. Nothing quite like it has happened since.

It began on May 12, 1921 when giant sunspot AR1842, crossing the sun during the declining phase of Solar Cycle 15, began to flare. One explosion after another hurled coronal mass ejections (CMEs) directly toward Earth. For the next 3 days, CMEs rocked Earth's magnetic field. Scientists around the world were surprised when their magnetometers suddenly went offscale, pens in strip chart recorders pegged uselessly to the top of the paper.

Then the fires began. Around 02:00 GMT on May 15th, a telegraph exchange in Sweden burst into flames. About an hour later, the same thing happened across the Atlantic in the village of Brewster, New York. Flames engulfed the switch-board at the Brewster station of the Central New England Railroad and quickly spread to destroy the whole building. That fire, along with another one about the same time in a railroad control tower near New York City's Grand Central Station, is why the event is sometimes referred to as the "New York Railroad Superstorm."

Comment: For more on the Carrington Event, see this: A Perfect Solar Superstorm: The 1859 Carrington Event

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Vader

Waco - The Rules of Engagement: 1997 documentary


altcensored.com
Thu, 18 Apr 2013 15:28 UTC
Waco compound
Waco: The Rules of Engagement, is a documentary about the tragic series of events outside Waco, Texas that killed 76 men, women and children of the Branch Davidian religious sect.

Nominated for an Academy Award for its incredible discoveries, Waco: The Rules of Engagement brings forth devastating evidence of federal law enforcement gone tragically wrong. It dares to suggest the ATF provoked war with a group whose apocalyptic religious beliefs and rumored manufacturing of illegal weapons made them easy targets for an inevitable abuse of its members' civil and human rights.

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Blue Planet

Humans were in Europe earlier and had cultural interactions with Neanderthals, new fossil finds in Bulgaria reveal

Natalie Parletta
Cosmos Magazine
Tue, 12 May 2020 12:00 UTC
Stone artefacts
© Tsenka Tsanova, MPI-EVA Leipzig
Stone artefacts found in Bacho Kiro Cave: 1-3, 5-7 Pointed blades and fragments; 4 sandstone bead; 8 the longest complete blade.
Newly unearthed fossil remains offer the earliest clear evidence of Homo sapiens in Europe and suggest they had greater influence on Neanderthals than previously thought, according to two studies published in the journal Nature.

They place humans in the mid-latitudes of Eurasia at least 45,000 years ago, three millennia before previous estimates and 8000 years before the dwindling Neanderthal populations drew their last breath.

The rich trove, found in the extensive Bacho Kiro Caves in modern day Bulgaria, includes thousands of animal bones, blade-like tools, beads and pendants made from teeth and bone alongside five human fossil remains.

Comment: These finds provide further support to the idea that humans and Neanderthals were radically different - even if a handful did interbreed - because over at least 200,000 years Neanderthals have been shown to continue using pretty much the same tool kit, however once humans arrived on the scene we find evidence of ever increasing ingenuity with tools, exquisite cave paintings, and it seems that before their arrival Neanderthals may have never considered jewelry:

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