For Those Interested in Archaeology

Haha...im not sure what that says about the Brits...Seriously though Britain learned from the Romans, modernised and became perhaps the biggest of all empires...Who in turn (via colonisation) have been speeding up other more "primitive" cultures...Sometimes the bridge is too wide.
We burn coal in Australia...humongous amounts of coal in Australia...

Did you know that all the coal in the world was created in just one 60 million year period? 360 million years ago to 300 million years ago...no coal before, no coal after. A banana for who can guess why...

 

Rome is now the Catholic Church...but don't tell anyone.




Papal States, territories of central Italy over which the pope had sovereignty from 756 to 1870. Included were the modern Italian regions of Lazio (Latium), Umbria, and Marche and part of Emilia-Romagna, though the extent of the territory, along with the degree of papal control, varied over the centuries.

 

Yep, my neck of the woods was practically built on coal. Monks started mining it in the Late Middle Ages-
Central Scottish Coalfields - Northern Mine Research Society
My grand/Great grandfathers worked quite a few of the Stirlingshire pits.

 

Yeah, what we were discussing earlier. Literally just came across this-
"Scientists have uncovered the aftermath of an "exceptionally violent" attack about 4,000 years ago in Somerset when at least 37 people appear to have been butchered and likely eaten.
It is the largest case of violence between humans identified in early Bronze Age England, which had been considered a peaceful time.
The victims' bones were found by cavers in the 1970s. Experts believe they were thrown into a 15m shaft by the prehistoric attackers.
The massacre was probably driven by a furious "desire for revenge" and its effects likely "echoed through generations", says Professor Rick Schulting at Oxford university.
He says the victims may have been eaten as a ritual to "dehumanise" them and to send a message by "insulting the remains".
Around 3,000 fragments of bones found at a cave system called Charterhouse Warren in the Mendip Hills, Somerset, were analysed by a team of archaeologists.
They believe that at least 37 people died, including men, woman and children. Teenagers and older children made up about half of the victims.
Villages in early Bronze Age Britain were made up of around 50 to 100 people, so the experts think this could have equated to wiping-out almost one entire community.
The Bronze Age in Britain lasted from about 2500–2000 BC until 800BC, and was a time when bronze replaced stone for making tools and weapons. People developed new agricultural methods, creating large and permanent farms.
In the newly-identified attack there was no evidence of a fight back, suggesting the victims were taken by surprise."
Somerset Bronze Age massacre victims likely cannibalised - BBC News

 

The Welsh are known for their mining - Where the word "buddy" comes from (never go down the mine without a buddy) - Can you answer the coal question?

 

Yep...the group that killed Christ became his most ardent followers...What happened to all the cool stuff Rome had before its fall? Some of those answers lie in the depths of the Vatican.

 

Wasn't it rising sea levels?

 

BRRRR! Back of the line Son...NEXT!

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Nope...i'll give OP a chance before the reveal...

 

OK...OP is quiet so i will reveal...
Approx 360 million years ago trees began to appear around the world, and quickly spread throughout the world....The moss and fungus around at the time couldn't break the wood down, the "lignins"

(Lignin is a class of complex organic polymers that form key structural materials in the support tissues of most plants.[1] Lignins are particularly important in the formation of cell walls, especially in wood and bark, because they lend rigidity and do not rot easily. Chemically, lignins are polymers made by cross-linking phenolic precursors)

Its basically what makes wood...wood.
Because these fungi hadn't learnt how to break this down, the trees would not decompose. They would fall and stay there, slowly petrifying...eventually to become coal.
It took 60 million years for the moss and fungi to learn how to break these trees down...Once they did they quickly spread throughout the world, decomposing all wood that fell to the ground.
So coal was created in just that 60 million year window. - Cool huh?

Most people think a tree gets its building blocks from the soil - infact the majority of building blocks comes from the air - CO2 - Plants have no use for Oxygen, they want the carbon to make food Carbohydrates (mixed with Hydrogen) and to create a solid body.
You can burn wood, watch some energy transfer (into light and heat), some catches the updraft and floats off as dust...the majority of the tree remains as what we call charcoal - Char coal.
Charcoal and coal are basically carbon. (a sprinkle of other elements)

You can see now why trees are central to reducing CO2 in our atmosphere…they love the shit!

 

Another tree question:
Are there more stars in our galaxy or trees on earth (living right now) ?

 

I knew your real name was Methuselah…