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Feast of gazelle, pig and snails sheds light on Hellenist life in ancient Galilee

ROSSELLA TERCATIN
Jerusalem Post
Sat, 16 May 2020 19:07 UTC
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© COURTESY OF THE TEL BET YERAH ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROJECT
The remains of a Hellenist banquet dating back to 2,200 years ago recently uncovered by a group of archaeologists from the Tel Aviv University (TAU) have helped to shed light on the everyday life of Greek settlers in the land of Israel before the Galilee was conquered by the Hasmonean Kingdom.

The pit was revealed during excavations at Tel Bet Yerah, headed by TAU Prof. Rafi Greenberg and Dr. Sarit Paz. Read More Related Articles

As explained to The Jerusalem Post by Miriam Pines, one of the authors of the article, published in the latest issue of the Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology & Heritage Studies, the project was conducted "within inter-discipline research aimed at discovering the small forgotten things of the past societies in this land."

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A perfect storm: How early Christian farming in the Negev collapsed

Ruth Schuster
Haaretz
Tue, 12 May 2020 12:49 UTC
Negev
© Yotam TepperShivta, an early Christian farming settlement in the Negev that did spectacularly well, until it didn't any more
The Negev Desert isn't the first place that comes to mind when one thinks about agricultural abundance, yet beginning over 2,000 years ago and up to about 1,500 years ago very roughly, slightly less inhospitable parts of the desert were intensively farmed. From early Roman times, villagers in the Negev worked the bitter land.

By the early Byzantine era, which began in 324 C.E., the farmers were flourishing by dint of remarkable water management and by strategically locating towering dovecotes in agricultural fields. The people grew olives, grapes and subsistence crops in the nutrient-poor loess soil, literally fertilized by the birds' copious emissions.

And then they were gone. What happened to the ancient dryland farmers of the Negev and when it happened - before or after the advent of the early Islamic period - has been a mystery. Some have thought agriculture disappeared in the late Byzantine period, which ended in 638 C.E., while others thought it persisted well into the Islamic period, to the 10th or 11th century.

Comment: One of the driving factors to all the disasters mentioned in the article above, and recorded by many peoples of the time - although strangely absent from the article - are cometary events. For more see Pierre Lescaudron's: The Seven Destructive Earth Passes of Comet Venus

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Petroglyphs and cave painting in Iran suggests prehistorical Iranians migrated to Americas


Tehran Times
Tue, 12 May 2020 18:13 UTC
Ancient Petroglyph
© Tehran Times
Tehran - Some prehistorical residents of the Iranian plateau migrated to the Americas, an Iranian archaeologist and researcher says based on evidence from similarities between the petroglyphs and cave painting symbols in central Iran and the ones found in the Americas.

"After years of exploring ancient paintings inside Iran's caves and mountains and other parts of the globe, amazing achievements have been made in this regard," Mohammad Nasserifard told IRNA in an interview released on Tuesday.

"The ancient paintings of cave walls and mountains in Iran have been compared with ones in other parts of the world, their similarities in appearance and motifs have been 'amazing', according to quotes by professors Jan Brouwer and Gus van Veen," Nasserifard said, adding "His research and findings are presented to enthusiasts and researchers for the first time."

The archaeologist underlined that such petroglyphs may be a missing link in human history and arts.

"Appearance similarities, artistic styles, and uniform themes of ancient petroglyphs and cave paintings of this land (Iran) reveal many missing links in human history and arts one of which is the resemblance of ancient artifacts in Iran with ones found in the American continent."

"The discovery of equestrian motifs with leopard-like horses in Iran, which the Indians called 'Appaloosa', is one of the reasons for this migration, which can be seen on the walls of caves and mountains of Qasr-e-qand and Neyshekar regions which date from 11,000 years ago. They are similar to the leopard-like horses of Baluchestan."
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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 ExeterA 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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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 AberdeenTap 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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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-PIERCEThe 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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Best of the Web: 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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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 /FileIn 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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