Rolling Archaeology Thread

[version]

Massive human head in Chinese well forces scientists to rethink evolution

‘Dragon man’ skull reveals new branch of family tree more closely related to modern humans than Neanderthals

www.theguardian.com

 

[Murphy]

 

[Murphy]

Ultimate Big Head

 

[version]

There've been a couple of interesting Roman finds recently,

Roman site uncovered in Scarborough hailed as first of its kind in UK

Remains of buildings near Yorkshire town said to be ‘most important Roman discovery of last decade’

www.theguardian.com

Shackled skeleton identified as rare evidence of slavery in Roman Britain

‘Internationally significant’ discovery of male with burial chains in Great Casterton is first of its kind

www.theguardian.com

 

[sufi]

2,600-year-old stele discovered by Egyptian farmer

archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com

3,000-year-old shark attack victim found by Oxford-led researchers

archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com

Mystery object blotted out a giant star for 200 days

Something huge and opaque caused a star in our galaxy to dim, and astronomers are struggling to explain the phenomenon.

www.nationalgeographic.com

The Enduring Myths of 'Raiders of the Lost Ark'

Forty years later, archaeologists look back at what the first Indiana Jones movie got wrong about their profession

www.smithsonianmag.com

 

[catalog]

this reminds me - i need to go to the local museum and look at these pots that this austro hungarian unit made near my house 1000 years ago.

 

[Murphy]

Caution with pottery specialists, they’re a different breed of human

 

[Murphy]

There've been a couple of interesting Roman finds recently,

Roman site uncovered in Scarborough hailed as first of its kind in UK

Remains of buildings near Yorkshire town said to be ‘most important Roman discovery of last decade’

www.theguardian.com

Shackled skeleton identified as rare evidence of slavery in Roman Britain

‘Internationally significant’ discovery of male with burial chains in Great Casterton is first of its kind

www.theguardian.com

There've been a couple of interesting Roman finds recently,

Roman site uncovered in Scarborough hailed as first of its kind in UK

Remains of buildings near Yorkshire town said to be ‘most important Roman discovery of last decade’

www.theguardian.com

Shackled skeleton identified as rare evidence of slavery in Roman Britain

‘Internationally significant’ discovery of male with burial chains in Great Casterton is first of its kind

www.theguardian.com

Slavery preceded the Romans, this was hauled up a couple of hundred years from my grandparents at Llyn Cerrig Bach lake

Error

museum.wales

Llyn Cerrig Bach - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[hmg]

A Tunguska sized airburst destroyed Tall el-Hammam a Middle Bronze Age city in the Jordan Valley near the Dead Sea​

A Tunguska sized airburst destroyed Tall el-Hammam a Middle Bronze Age city in the Jordan Valley near the Dead Sea - Scientific Reports

We present evidence that in ~ 1650 BCE (~ 3600 years ago), a cosmic airburst destroyed Tall el-Hammam, a Middle-Bronze-Age city in the southern Jordan Valley northeast of the Dead Sea. The proposed airburst was larger than the 1908 explosion over Tunguska, Russia, where a ~ 50-m-wide bolide...

www.nature.com

"we consider whether oral traditions about the destruction of this urban city by a cosmic object might be the source of the written version of Sodom in Genesis. We also consider whether the details recounted in Genesis are a reasonable match for the known details of a cosmic impact event."

 

[catalog]

flood stories exist in both christianity and hinduism, must've been a real event.

 

[sufi]

flood stories exist in both christianity and hinduism, must've been a real event.

also Islam so yeah,
but also Hawaiian and Mayan cultures, which muddies the water somewhat

 

[catalog]

Global event like the pandemic.

 

[sufi]

Global event like the pandemic.

Leonardo Da Vinci debunked that theory about 500 years ago

 

[sufi]

(according to wikipedia )

 

[sufi]

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d5/John_Martin_-_The_Eve_of_the_Deluge_-_WGA14146.jpg

 

[catalog]

I like John Martin.

 

[sufi]

i wonder if the flood is an archetypal social fear, kinda like dreams about this sorta thing

 

[Mr. Tea]

flood stories exist in both christianity and hinduism, must've been a real event.

Could well have been - it's an idea some archaeologists have taken seriously for a couple of decades now, although it's not without controversy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sea_deluge_hypothesis

 

[Murphy]

late glacial max on right, tsunami 5500BC middle, post tsunami left

aka Atlantis

 

[Mr. Tea]

late glacial max on right, tsunami 5500BC middle, post tsunami left

aka Atlantis

"Doggerland" sounds like a theme park you'd be well up for visiting.