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  1. OpanaPointer

    OpanaPointer I Point at Opana Staff Member WW2|ORG Editor

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    Stonehenge served as an ancient solar calendar
    Date: March 1, 2022
    Source: Bournemouth University
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    New analysis has identified how the design of Stonehenge may have represented a calendar, helping people track a solar year of 365.25 days calibrated by the alignment of the solstices. Although it had long been thought to be a calendar, pinpointing how it functioned was only possible thanks to modern discoveries. The large sarsens that dominate the site appear to reflect a calendar with 12 months of 30 days, divided into 10 day 'weeks'. An intercalary month and leap days aligned it with the solar year. Such calendars had been developed in ancient Egypt, raising the possibility Stonehenge's calendar system had its roots elsewhere.
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    OpanaPointer I Point at Opana Staff Member WW2|ORG Editor

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  3. GRW

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    Doubt if there's any link to the battle, but still an astonishing find-
    "Archaeologists have unearthed a rare Pictish stone in Angus.
    The 1.7m (5.5ft) long carved monument is one of only about 200 to be found.
    The discovery was made by a team from the University of Aberdeen during survey work at Aberlemno, where important Pictish finds have been made previously.
    The site is near a suspected location of the Battle of Dun Nechtain, also known as the Battle of Nechtansmere. Fought in 685 AD, it saw Picts defeat an army of Northumbrian Angles.
    The stone is thought to date from the 5th or 6th Centuries.
    Archaeologists carrying out a geophysical survey of a field spotted anomalies below ground which looked like evidence of a settlement.
    They dug a test pit and came across the carved stone.
    The discovery was made in early 2020, but the Covid pandemic delayed the recovery of the stone until now.
    It is to be carefully examined and the settlement where it was found is to be further excavated."
    www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c99jnywwrnlo
     
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    Collectors in the prehistoric world recycled old stone tools to preserve the memory of their ancestors
    New study unravels recycling practices 500,000 years ago

    Date: March 7, 2022
    Source: Tel-Aviv University
    Summary: A new study asks what drove prehistoric humans to collect and recycle flint tools that had been made, used, and discarded by their predecessors. After examining flint tools from one layer at the 500,000-year-old prehistoric site of Revadim in the south of Israel's Coastal Plain, researchers propose a novel explanation: prehistoric humans, just like us, were collectors by nature and culture.

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    "Prehistoric" - Refers to before information was written down/collected "Before history"...Perhaps not the correct use of the word in this instance. Maybe "Pre-Sapien" would be closer to the right description.
    Again, perhaps jumping to conclusions without broader knowledge - Like human behaviour.
    These could be pieces kept from a prominent hunter within the group who dies - Kept as a sign of respect, kept in an attempt to be as successful...Kept due to "superstition" - Something that exists to this day in primitive societies...That superstition could be anything from "waste not want not" to "we will lose the success of the tribe".
    Sources of good flint may have been scarce at the time, who knows.
    One thing though...With a nomadic life style "collecting" was not a luxury most would have had...carrying the necessities like skins and spears etc etc without a handy backpack would preclude "collecting".
     
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    "History", to a historian, means hard evidence supported by other evidence. I took Historiography twice, once as an undergrad and once as a grad student. The classes were very different.
     
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    Kai-Petri Kenraali

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    Sorry, Hitler once and now Hitler twice ( Putin). Maybe a third one. The " Veto" right should be taken away from Russia, and China if they had it. It is a joke they use it to continue their means. Once I found it funny that Vietnam beat the Chinese army but countries that want to do it again are not worth the " veto" right. They never learnt nothing and never will.
     
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    "Yorkshire's Atlantis" my backside.
    "RESEARCHERS have made a stunning breakthrough as a lost town that has been dubbed "Yorkshire's Atlantis" is close to being found after 650 years of being underwater.
    Ravenser Odd was a port town that existed during the Medieval period established in around 1235, but got abandoned and then later flooded after a series of heavy storms in the mid-1300s. One storm, known as the Grote Mandrenke, battered northern Europe and wreaked havoc on the town. The port town, which laid on the on the bed of the Humber estuary, has remained under the waters of the North Sea ever since.
    The town is one of the largest of a number of spots on the Holderness coast that have been lost over the centuries due to coastal erosion.
    But now, researchers from the University of Hull are poised for a major breakthrough after using high-resolution sonar systems to help uncover the town. The researchers are set to conduct a survey in the coming weeks that should help to reveal the town's whereabouts."
    www.express.co.uk/news/science/1582984/atlantis-breakthrough-yorkshire-port-town-humber-hull-ravenser-odd
     
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    "New analysis of ancient human remains found near Edinburgh has shown some of them travelled widely across Scotland.
    The skeletal remains of nine adults and five infants were found in Cramond in 1975 during a Roman bathhouse excavation.
    The bones and teeth were later dated back to the 6th Century.
    Work led by the University of Aberdeen has now revealed that one of them grew up on the west coast before making Cramond her home.
    Another male member of the group appears to have travelled from the Southern Uplands, Southern Highlands or Loch Lomond.
    The remains were discovered when work on a new car park unearthed the former bathhouse of the Roman fort at Cramond.
    Previous research had suggested they belonged to different generations of a noble family from the Dark Ages, and at least one of them had suffered a violent death."
    www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-60861932
     
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    Ouch.
    "A fossilized leg of a dinosaur that died on the day the Chicxulub asteroid hit Earth 66 million years ago has been unearthed alongside a fragment of the space rock that killed it, experts say.
    The leg fossil, found at the Tanis site in North Dakota, belonged to a Thescelosaurus, a small herbivore, and is likely to have been ripped off after the asteroid hit and caused a flash flood.
    Palaeontologists say it's the first dinosaur victim from the famous asteroid strike – which left a 93-mile-wide impact crater in what is today the Gulf of Mexico – that has ever been discovered.
    The creature was 'buried on the day of impact', they claim. They also think they've unearthed a tiny fragment from the asteroid, which totaled more than six miles in diameter when it struck Earth, ending the era of the dinosaurs.
    The remarkable discoveries were made by University of Manchester palaeontologist Robert DePalma at a famous dig site called Tanis in North Dakota.
    They could provide the first ever physical evidence that dinosaurs were killed by an asteroid strike at the end of the Cretaceous Period."
    www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10694949/Fragment-Chicxulub-asteroid-unearthed-remains-dinosaur-killed-impact.html
     
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    Stone henge has been "manipulated" a number of times...

    Re-erection (ooh-er!) of a stone...
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    Missing pieces added back on...
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    And restoration...
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    Seems a pretty circle these days...
     
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    "Scientists have discovered a new species of four-limbed animal that lived around 336million years ago at what is now East Kirkton Quarry, but which was then part of a landmass close to the Equator.
    Measuring around half a metre long, with a scaly belly and a tail, the tetrapod also had a large fourth toe on its hind foot, allowing it a great stride and the ability to move at speed.
    The animal, which is close to the group from which reptiles evolvedm, has been named Termonerpeton makrydactylus or “boundary crawler with the long toe” and is now the eight tetrapod found at East Kirkton.
    Dr Timothy Smithson, of the Department of Zoology at the University of Cambridge, described the limestone quarry as an “extraordinary” place where exceptional preservation of the tetrapods had allowed greater study of animals and plants of the period."
    www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/heritage-and-retro/heritage/new-species-of-animal-that-roamed-336million-years-ago-found-at-bathgate-quarry-3655694
     
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    Did women rule during the Bronze Age?

    A silver diadem found in La Almoloya archaeological site, in southern Spain, suggests that a woman buried almost 4,000 years ago might have been the ruler of the Argaric civilisation.

    This new discovery disputes archaeologists understanding of power and politics in the Bronze Age as being strictly male-dominated societies.

    Did women rule during the Bronze Age? - BBC Reel
     
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    Cheaters ! They should have used brute strength.
     

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